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Day: December 30, 2011

Iowa hunters injured this week

Hunter Injured Friday While Hunting Deer in Delaware County Posted: 12/30/2011 DELHI – A Dubuque man was injured Friday after shooting himself in the leg while deer hunting in Delaware County. Kenneth

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Drowning of FBI Special Agent Daniel Knapp

SAN JUAN, PR—FBI Special Agent Daniel Knapp, assigned to the San Juan Field Office, accidentally drowned on December 29, 2011, at Playa Escondida (Hidden Beach) in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, while rescuing a

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State of Iowa Casino Payback Percentages

Payback percentages calculated for the 3 months ending November 30, 2011 Defined: Payback is the overall percentage that a machine will return to the player in the long run. These figures are programmed

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Rose Bowl high scores 12/27 and 12/29, 2011

Over The Hill 12/27/11 (4 person team) High Scratch Game 1.    Don Wickwire    217 2.    Gene Roberts     211 3.    Gary Book         207 1.    Marlene Moore   193 2.    Jean Mitchell      179 3.    Jane

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Latest Internet scam alerts

This report, which is based upon information from law enforcement and complaints submitted to the IC3, details recent cyber crime trends, new twists to previously-existing cyber scams, and announcements. POPULAR PASSWORDS An

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Double Trouble

Las Cruces, NM – On December 28, 2011, Deputy U.S. Marshals and the Las Cruces Police Officers apprehended murder suspects Armando and Mando Lopez. The twin brothers are Norteno gang members wanted out

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How to Steal an American Job

In this wrapup of achievements in 2011, ICE Director John Morton shows how American jobs are being stolen through IP theft – and how the National IPR Coordination Center is fighting back.

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Versus TV will soon be just a memory

By Dan Caesar, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Curses, it’s on Versus. That at times has been the battle cry of frustrated NHL fans who wanted to watch a game on the Versus channel,

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Wild win the game, and the fights

By Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – ST. PAUL, Minn. — This was, as one observer so aptly put it, big-boy hockey. The Wild and Edmonton were at Xcel Energy Center Thursday, playing

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Court revives suit against wiretapping

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Residential telephone customers can sue the government for allegedly eavesdropping on their private communications in a warrantless “dragnet of ordinary Americans,” a

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14-year-old injected with heroin dies

By Casey Grove, McClatchy Newspapers – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 14-year-old Anchorage girl who police say overdosed after a man injected her with heroin last week has died. Police said the teen passed

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The gospel on celebrity and pop culture

Los Angeles Times From the Los Angeles Times’ Ministry of Gossip blog: ——— ZOE SALDANA, BRADLEY COOPER REPORTEDLY DATING — HEAR THE SIZZLE? Zoe Saldana? Hottie. Bradley Cooper? Hottie. And if the

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