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Greek strikes halt air travel
Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike. Flights resumed after being grounded between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. (0900-1300 GMT), when air traffic controllers joined the ...
Dubuque students may miss planned trip to New York
Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments. The Telegraph Herald reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/10StwKM ) that an attorney representing ...
Everglades restoration marks important milestone
There's finally a crack in the dam blocking the natural flow of water into Everglades National Park. The Tamiami Trail that traverses South Florida's wetlands has kept water from flowing into the park for more than 80 years. On Wednesday, a backhoe broke through a 1-mile stretch of the old ...
EPA taking comments on ND air pollution matter
Environmental groups say the federal government should order two coal-fired power plants in western North Dakota to use more sophisticated pollution-control technology, but state officials say the matter already has been settled and no more debate is needed. The federal Environmental Protection Agency is taking written comments through June 17 ...
US tech, labor spar on immigration
To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democratic allies, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is ...
SC slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display
As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Once one of about two dozen on slave row at Point of Pines Plantation, ...
Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis
One by one the teenage singers practice the opening lines to "Boogie Wonderland," a disco-funk hit from an era before they were born, as dancers work on hip-swinging moves that require perfect choreography. In another room, young musicians play the same song over and over on guitar, piano and drums, ...
Experts say NC eyes eco-friendly vacations options
North Carolina is one of 38 states aiming to lure a growing segment of travelers searching for eco-friendly vacation options, experts said during a recent panel discussion at the Sustainable Energy Conference in Raleigh. "From the mountains to the sea, tourism is a growing facet of the economy," said Alex ...
Group asks feds to ban wolf hunting in parkway
A conservation group filed a petition on Wednesday asking the National Park Service to place an area between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks off-limits to wolf hunting. The petition by the National Parks Conservation Association called on the park service to start a formal rulemaking process and ultimately ban ...
Body of missing Calif. 9-year-old found
Authorities found the body on Wednesday of an autistic Northern California 9-year-old who went missing from her family's vacation home, ending an exhaustive, emotional search for the girl. A dive team found Mikaela Lynch in a muddy creek near the home in Clearlake, Clearlake Police Chief Craig Clausen said. He ...
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