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BP trial focus shifts to how much oil spilled
The focus of a trial over BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has shifted to the multibillion-dollar question of how much crude gushed from BP's blown-out well. Lawyers for BP and the federal government began Monday presenting U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with conflicting scientific theories to ...
Southern Missouri river towns struck by shutdown
Many of the people who live amid the hills and hollows around this southern Missouri town aren't comfortable with the government telling them they have to do anything, let alone buy health insurance. In 2010, voters here overwhelmingly supported a statewide ballot measure that opposed a federal mandate calling for ...
Government's work stacking up a week into shutdown
Across America the government's work is piling up, and it's not just paperwork. It's old tires and litter on a stretch of river in Nebraska. Food poisoning microbes awaiting analysis in Atlanta. The charred wreckage of a plane in California, preserved in case safety investigators return. A week into a ...
Government's work stacking up a week into shutdown
Across America the government's work is piling up, and it's not just paperwork. It's old tires and red Solo cups littering a stretch of river in Nebraska. Food poisoning microbes awaiting analysis in Atlanta. The charred wreckage of a plane in California, preserved in case safety investigators return. And it's ...
Shutdown spawns vacuum in farm market information
When Tim Peterson finished planting his 900 acres of winter wheat last week, the usually market-savvy Kansas farmer unexpectedly found himself struggling to make critical marketing decisions without being able to access to vital agricultural reports, casualties of the federal government shutdown. "We have no clue what is going on ...
South Africa: A loud bird finds a lush niche
Pest, charming oddity or just background noise, the Hadeda ibis is a feathered phenomenon in suburban South Africa. Sometimes it swipes dog food meant for pets, splatters parked cars and driveways with droppings and yanks residents from sleep with jarring squawks at first light. It is not an endangered species ...
BP trial to focus on scientists' spill estimates
A federal judge was set to begin hearing three weeks of testimony Monday about how much oil made it into the ocean during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Experts for BP and the federal government will provide U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with very different estimates when the ...
Crocodiles disappearing as dinner in Jamaica
Crocodiles were once so abundant along the salty rim of southern Jamaica that images of their toothy jaws and spiny armor crown the tropical island's coat of arms and are stenciled on the bumpers of military vehicles. Now, the big reptiles are increasingly difficult to spot, and not just because ...
Weakened elephant euthanized at SW Mo. zoo
An elephant at a southwest Missouri zoo that was suffering from kidney disease has been euthanized after becoming too week to stand. The Springfield News-Leader (http://sgfnow.co/GGk8RX) reports the female elephant at Dickerson Park Zoo was estimated to be 50 years old and had lost about 800 pounds. The elephant, named ...
Big money shapes GMO food labeling fight in Wash.
The debate over labeling genetically modified foods has shaped up to be one of the costliest initiative fights ever in Washington state, with most of the dollars coming from out of state. Five corporations and a trade group representing food manufacturers have largely financed efforts to defeat Initiative 522, raising ...
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