San Jose Mercury News, USA
A Sentinel review of county payroll records shows during the past six months retiring employees cashed out nearly $900000 in unused vacation, sick time and other leave. More than a third of that money went to four retirees, top managers who stepped …
San Jose Mercury News
Voice of America
By VOA News Officials in India and Bangladesh say the death toll from this week's cyclone has risen to nearly 200, and rescue teams are still trying to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding.
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New York Times
By ANDREW JACOBS and EDWARD WONG BEIJING - After a year of obfuscation, the authorities on Thursday released the first official tally of student deaths from the earthquake last May, saying that 5335 children either were dead or remained missing.
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MEXICO CITY, May 3 (Xinhua) — Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos late Sunday raised the death toll of the A/H1N1 flu to 22 and the number of infected cases to 568 in the country.
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Voice of America
By VOA News Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said late Saturday three more people had died from the virus, bringing the total number of people killed to 19.
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
By Denis Cuff A state bill that would empower the Bay Area's transportation commission to create an 800-mile network of dual carpool/toll lanes is getting its first legislative hearing and vote this afternoon in the Assembly Transportation Committee. …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The authority wants assurances that surplus toll lane money is spent in the travel corridor where it's collected, and that at least 50 percent of that money is spent on public transit such as express buses to zip along the express lanes. …
Toronto Star
Canadian soldiers sit in a Chinook helicopter in Kandahar April 12, 2009. Post-traumatic stress cases have increased, the government says.
Worcester Telegram
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guardian.co.uk
Rescue workers search for trapped people on a damaged building in Onna, Italy. Photograph: Massimo Di Nonno/Getty Images There were 12 of them.
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Bloomberg
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Boston Globe
By Noah Bierman and Matt Viser With the clock ticking toward an unpopular toll increase, Governor Deval Patrick and legislative leaders agreed yesterday to delay increases in turnpike tolls while lawmakers negotiate a broader agreement to fix the …
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