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| Toronto's oft-lampooned mayor to guest on "Jimmy Kimmel" -reports Saturday, Mar 01, 2014 06:31 PM PST  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became a popular target for late-night TV hosts after admitting to smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor", will appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and may join the comedian at the Oscars, Canadian media reported on Saturday. The Toronto Sun newspaper said Ford is scheduled to be on the Jimmy Kimmel show Monday night and is "looking forward to promoting Toronto on the world stage." The article also quoted Ford as saying he would attend this year's Academy Awards, though another report by a local TV news channel said a plan for Ford to attend the ceremony with Kimmel was not confirmed. Full Story | Top |
| Yellowstone bison could launch new herds without risking cattle, study says Saturday, Mar 01, 2014 04:06 AM PST  The findings raise hopes of park managers, Native American tribes and wildlife advocates that efforts to restore bison populations derived from the nation's last pure-bred band of wild bison will face less resistance from the cattle industry. WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM Those worries helped shape a federal-state management plan for Yellowstone bison that has allowed thousands to be shipped to slaughter when harsh winters lead them from the snow-covered high country to winter range in lower elevations outside the park in Montana. Full Story | Top |
| Israeli military kill Palestinian woman near Gaza border: hospital Saturday, Mar 01, 2014 01:38 AM PST The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip in an area near the border that Israel has declared a no-go zone for Palestinians, local hospital officials said on Saturday. Gaza residents said it was not clear why 50-year-old Amna Qdaih, who they said suffered from a mental illness, was near the security fence that runs between Israel and Gaza. Asked about the report, an Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers identified a number of suspects in the area late on Friday and called on them to back away. Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza, agreed in 2012 to a ceasefire after an eight-day war. Full Story | Top |
| North Carolina cites Duke Energy in coal ash spill Saturday, Mar 01, 2014 12:06 AM PST State regulators in North Carolina on Friday said Duke Energy Corp violated environmental laws and could face quotidian fines after a massive spill of toxic coal ash this month contaminated water and wildlife in the Dan River. The state's Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR), which has been criticized by green groups and faces a federal government criminal probe over its handling of the decommissioned Eden plant's spill, issued two notices of wastewater and stormwater violations. "These are violations of state and federal law, and we are holding the utility accountable," said DENR Secretary John Skvarla. Full Story | Top |
| Three injured in avalanche that engulfed Montana home Friday, Feb 28, 2014 09:06 PM PST An avalanche swept down a mountainside into a Missoula, Montana, neighborhood on Friday and crushed the two-story home of an elderly couple, burying them in snow along with a young boy nearby, but all three were later found alive, police said. He was identified as Fred Allendorf, a professor emeritus in conservation and genetics at the University of Montana campus several blocks away, and was listed in critical condition at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. The 8-year-old boy, who was elsewhere in the vicinity of the avalanche when it struck, was pulled separately from the snow by rescue workers and volunteers digging with shovels more than an hour before Allendorf was found, city police Sergeant Travis Welsh said. Neither his condition nor that of Allendorf's wife was immediately known. Full Story | Top |
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