UPDATE: Fire near Cayucos grows to 15 acres
Source: KSBY
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 17:40:27 -0700 | travel-news
A wildland fire burning near Cayucos has grown to 15 acres...Cal Fire says the fire is burning in grass and moving slowly. (Photo courtesy: Elaine Beckham) Related Articles Offensive or inappropriate comments are subject to removal.
Four years on, genocide continues off the battlefield
Source: Open Democracy
Jaffna :: Sri Lanka | updated 2013-05-20 11:14:17 -0700 | travel-news
Sri Lanka came to a harrowing end, Sri Lanka's genocidal offensive against the Tamil population of the North-East reached a peak. Four years on, as the Tamil nation scattered worldwide through decades of oppression and armed conflict remembers the massacre...
Maserati recall: Corrosion problem could lead to loss of control
Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 11:10:46 -0700 | travel-news
Maserati of North America is recalling 7,438 model year 2005-2008 Quattroportes, model year 2008 GranTurismos, and model year 2008 Alfa Romeo 8Cs for a corrosion problem that could lead to a loss of control of the cars...GranTurismos that sold for...
Fire south of Bakersfield 90 percent contained
Source: KSBY
Frazier Park :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 11:09:27 -0700 | travel-news
A fire that broke last week south of Bakersfield has closed a state park and already has cost more than $6 million to fight. Fire officials said on Monday that the fire, which consumed some 4,346 acres in Kern and...
"Israel must use Terror Victims for PR"
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-20 11:08:32 -0700 | travel-news
43 Reported News Brief 5/20/2013, Sivan 11, 5773 "Israel must use Terror Victims for PR" In wake of the government castigation of the French Channel 2 report by which the IDF is responsible for the death of Gaza Arab child...
Disaster prep efforts after Boston bombings draw privacy criticism
Source: FierceHealthIT
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 11:03:42 -0700 | travel-news
Late last month, the commission sent a request to hospitals and clinics in Boston asking for information on bombing victims, including names and contact information. The commission was told by legal counsel that the request was in compliance with the...
Fake prom crash brings home lesson of drinking and driving
Source: Chicago Tribune
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-20 11:03:07 -0700 | travel-news
The deadly post-prom tragedy included a lifeless teenage girl wearing a blood-splattered dress splayed over the hood of a demolished car, while her distraught and intoxicated date was questioned by first responders: "How many shots do you think you had...
Utah man killed, woman hurt in Wyoming crash
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Taylorsville :: UT :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 17:07:17 -0700 | travel-news
Stephen Townsend said that 73-year-old Marcus Archuletta, of Taylorsville, Utah, was dead at the scene of the 4:15 a.m. crash 17 miles north of Rawlins. Archuletta did not appear to have been wearing a seat belt, WHP said. A passenger,...
Trace volcano ash reaches Sand Point
Source: Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 14:17:05 -0700 | travel-news
Alaska Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers. A satellite at 12:40 a.m. measured an ash cloud at 19,500 feet, just below the 20,000-foot threshold considered...
Survivors of Factory Collapse Speak Out
Source: Inter Press Service
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-20 15:26:57 -0700 | travel-news
The air was filled with the smell of decomposing corpses, recalled Nasima, a 24-year-old factory worker who spent four days buried under the rubble of an eight-storey building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka last month. The...
Driver hospitalized after car slams into Norwich garage
Source: The Day
New London :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 10:46:44 -0700 | travel-news
Updated 05/20/2013 12:43 PM Norwich An unidentified female driver was taken to the William W. Backus Hospital Monday after her car slammed into a garage attached to the house at 306 Norwich Ave. Norwich Director of Inspections James Troeger said...
Battle over a roadside memorial (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-20 10:39:38 -0700 | travel-news
But his mother Tracey Gibb says hundreds of people laid flowers on his anniversary which turned it from a small memorial to a large tribute. "It was a community statement to say that they wanted it there because they all...
Youngster injured in Richmond rollover crash
Source: KTUV
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 17:40:42 -0700 | travel-news
A 5-year-old child was critically injured Monday in a crash that closed down the busy Richmond Parkway, authorities said. Richmond police said the crash took place at around 8:10 a.m. on the Richmond Parkway at Hilltop. Six people were in...
Postponed US long-range missile test due Tuesday
Source: Miami Herald
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-20 10:21:27 -0700 | travel-news
In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor...
83% Indians view China as major security threat: Poll
Source: Indian Express
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-05-20 10:17:48 -0700 | travel-news
Eighty three per cent of Indians view China as a major security threat, even as 63 per cent would like relation with the neighbouring country to be strengthened, an opinion poll has claimed. China's possession of nuclear weapons, its efforts...
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