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Day: May 20, 2012

6 die as earthquake hits Italian cities

By Sabine Dobel ROME — Six people were killed Sunday when a magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit northern Italy. Old buildings including churches and towers collapsed or were damaged. An estimated 3,000 people were

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Pakistan blocks Twitter

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD —Pakistan’s decision to block access to the online social network Twitter on Sunday drew sharp criticism from human rights activists, who called it an “ill-advised”

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Facebook’s epic fail

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times – Maybe the dumb money wasn’t so dumb this time. The stock market did turn out to be a voting machine on Facebook on Friday (to

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Is Facebook a graveyard for games?

By Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — It may be a financial bonanza for investors riding on the coattails of Facebook’s grand initial public offering Friday, but in social

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A new status update for Facebook CEO

By Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A day after taking his company public and raising his wealth to more than $19 billion, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg married

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Safe Waters, Safe Swimming

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) joins local public health partners and the CDC in recognizing May 21 through 27 as National Recreational Water Illness and Injury (RWII) Prevention Week. This

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Manly Library Creates Digital Archive

MANLY – The Manly Public Library has created a digital archive of FitnessDigest.us, available to patrons that visit the library. FitnessDigest.us is a digital edition magazine that features athletes using racing or

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Networks shake things up for fall

By Rich Heldenfels, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — The commercial broadcast networks have announced their plans for next season. I’m scared. There’s a beast in New York City. A very

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NAACP endorses gay marriage

By Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In a move that some called historic, the country’s oldest black civil rights group voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage. The National Association

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