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Petty's Island, a Fin-Shaped Slice of Strange in the Delaware River

Never heard of Petty's Island? It's littered with colorful characters — Pennsylvania founder William Penn, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a man who declared himself the island's king, and even the pirate's pirate himself, Ol' Blackbeard.

Will New Mexico Offer Drug Users Treatment Instead of Jail Time?

Weekly Alibi 1243 words

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Tags: jail, drugs, treatment

Colorado Lawmakers Look to Shake Up the Recycling World, With Millions of Tires Nearby

Colorado Springs Independent 964 words

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Tags: tires, recycling, Colorado, trash

Health-Care Practitioners Explain Why They're Willing to Go to Jail for Health-Care Reform

Baltimore City Paper 3752 words

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Tags: health care reform, Healthcare-Now, Single Payer Action, Barack Obama, Physicians for a National Health Program

What Happens When the Person Who Gives Voice to Victims Becomes a Victim?

New Haven Advocate 2498 words

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Tags: Connecticut State Police, harrassment, Michelle Cruz, Paul Barkyoumb, text messages

Baristas Say the Fight for Better Conditions is Uphill but Necessary

Fort Worth Weekly 1258 words

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Allegations of Racism Spark a Power Struggle at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

The Pitch 3184 words

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Tags: Betty Crow, Lisa Henry, Mutual Musicians Foundation, Vine District

Valley Smokers Buy, Steal, and Inhale JWH-018 to Get High

Phoenix New Times 1208 words

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Tags: JWH-018, Trader's Smoke Shop, DEA, marijuana

An Obsessive Patrol Cop Tried to Nail the Wrong Guy in the Baseline Killer Case

Phoenix New Times 6152 words

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Tags: Baseline Killer, Mark Goudeau, Randall Craig, Rusty Stuart

Where Running a Light and Killing Someone Does Not Automatically Mean You're in Trouble

Houston Press 4590 words

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Tags: car accidents, Rosa Villegas-Vatres, Steve Morrison, red lights, driving

Lobster Loot: Chinese New Year and Weather Contribute to Record Prices

Santa Barbara Independent 288 words

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Look Closer at 'Environmentalism' and Economic Health

Santa Barbara Independent 787 words

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Tags: oil, environment, economy, offshore oil drilling

Haitian Chaos: Of Course Aid is Difficult

Seattle Weekly 366 words

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Tags: aid operations, World Vision, Haiti, Mercy Corps

Child Support Collection Business Incurs Wrath of OAG

Dallas Observer 5582 words

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Tags: Robert O'Donnell, Texas Office of the Attorney General, child support

Pasadena Labor Talks Hit the Skids

Pasadena Weekly 388 words

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Tags: furloughs, Pasadena Management Association, labor, Pasadena

Permit Pulled: DEP Action Halts Construction of a Waste-Coal Plant

Pittsburgh City Paper 377 words

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Tags: Beech Hollow Power Plant, coal plants, Pennsylvania DEP, Robinson Coal

Beyond Guantanamo: The Story of Julia Hall and Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov

Artvoice 3212 words

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Tags: Julia Hall, Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov, Guantanamo, Human Rights Watch

When Life Takes You Out of Your House and Into Your Car

L.A. Weekly 3923 words

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Tags: economic downturn, California, homelessness, Venice, recession

Town of Nederland's Vote on Pot Legalization Going to Ballot

Boulder Weekly 320 words

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SF Weekly has learned that the operator of a 22-Fillmore bus involved in what can only be described as a...

The Snitch

Did Joe Basel buck judge's order by going to teabagger event?

Basel is under a federal court order not to travel outside Minnesota ahead of a Feb. 12 court date. But...

The Blotter

The RIAA can seriously shut the hell up now

Recession what? According to a press release I just got, the soundtrack to Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has...

CurBlog

Yosi Sergant: Obama's Former Hipster-In-Chief Opens Up

I'm too busy editing other folks' material right now to be posting much if my own. Luckily my students have...

Marc Cooper

Wis. man shot in crotch after he "pretends" to rob his mother

Don't mess with your mother if she carries a loaded weapon...

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Some folks who ice fish are of the opinion that we all want to find their dead beer cans when...

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