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Published: November 9, 2009
Updated: 11/08/2009 11:45 pm
Ida likely to be 1st '09 hurricane to hit U.S.
NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded yesterday toward the Gulf Coast with 100 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.
A hurricane watch extended over more than 200 miles of coastline in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Louisiana's governor declared a state of emergency.
Authorities said that weakened Ida could make landfall as early as Tuesday morning.
Congressman seeks probe on E.coli school-lunch risk
WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
Miller is worried about a recent outbreak that killed at least two people and sickened more than 20 in 11 states.
Philadelphia transit strike will extend into next week
PHILADELPHIA -- Commuters in the City of Brotherly Love were told yesterday to gear up to begin a second week of finding other ways to work after the collapse of a proposed deal to end a six-day-old strike by about 5,000 bus drivers, subway and trolley conductors and mechanics.
The largest union representing workers of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority wants an independent forensic audit of pension funds.
1 killed, 3 wounded in bar in resort town in Colorado
VAIL, Colo. -- A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently random shooting.
Richard Moreau, a longtime Vail resident, is accused of firing several shots outside and in the Sandbar Sports Grill in the mountain ski resort town. Police said he was arrested Saturday at the scene on suspicion of first-degreee homicide.
Police said Gary Bruce Kitching, 70, of Carbondale, was fatally shot.
Burst pipe led to explosion that damaged 10 homes
WOODS CROSS, Utah -- A refinery explosion that severely damaged 10 homes this week was caused by a burst pipe that sprayed hydrogen gas onto a nearby heater, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's lead investigator said.
Donald Holmstrom said that investigators don't know why the pipe suffered what he called a "catastrophic failure." He said that the safety board will test what's left of the pipe to determine what went wrong.
The 10-inch pipe was carrying 630 pounds of pressurized hydrogen when it ruptured Wednesday morning.
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