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ONE DEAD, ONE INJURED AFTER HOQUIAM SHOOTING
By Ian Cope on Monday, February 16, 2009 |
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A 28 year old Aberdeen man is dead and a 24 year old Westport man seriously injured after a shooting at a Bay Avenue Apartment complex last night. Deputy Chief Jim Maloney says shooting (which occurred at 8:55 PM) seems to have stemmed from a drug deal gone bad.
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TRAIN HITS CAR IN EAST ABERDEEN
By Ian Cope on Friday, February 13, 2009 |
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An Aberdeen driver got a scare this afternoon but was otherwise unharmed in a car versus train collision in East Aberdeen this afternoon.
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SMOKE DETECTOR CLEARS HOME
By Ian Cope on Friday, February 13, 2009 |
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Let this serve as a reminder to all: smoke detectors save lives. Two Aberdeen women were able to escape their smoke filled home early this morning after their smoke detector sounded just before 4:00.
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HIGH VOLUME WATER USER RATE INCREASE
By Kyle Pauley on Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
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Larry Bledsoe, Public Works Director for the City of Aberdeen at Wednesday’s Aberdeen City Council meeting made his recommendation to the Council regarding raising rates to High Volume Users of the Aberdeen water supply. His recommendation included making no change to rates for High Volume Customers with the exceptions of Cosmopolis and the Stafford Creek Corrections Center, who would be charged 1.1 times the In-City rate for Aberdeen.
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DOUG CRAIG RETIRES
By Kyle Pauley on Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
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Aberdeen Assistant Fire Chief Doug Craig has submitted his notice of retirement from the Aberdeen Fire Department effective March 31st. He has given nearly 35 years of service to the city. As assistant chief of the Aberdeen Fire Department his primary responsibilities dealt with code enforcement and fire investigation.
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UN: 3 killed in quake collapse in northern Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spokesman said....
Frustrations await Bush, Clinton visit to Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as frustration over an uneven earthquake relief effort is bringing politics back to the surface....
Israel: No building restrictions in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies....
French left beats Sarkozy's party in regional vote
PARIS (AP) -- The long-flailing French left made a big-time comeback Sunday, crushing Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives in regional elections colored by voters' economic worries - and informally kicking off the 2012 presidential race....
China begins trial of 4 Rio Tinto employees
SHANGHAI (AP) -- An Australian executive and three other employees of mining giant Rio Tinto went on trial Monday on charges of stealing secrets and offering bribes in a case viewed as a barometer of China's handling of foreign business....
US doctor charged in deaths pleads not guilty
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- An American doctor accused of repeatedly botching operations and performing surgeries he was not capable of handling pleaded not guilty Monday to three manslaughter charges and one of grievous bodily harm....
Iceland fears 2nd, even larger volcanic eruption
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- A volcano in southern Iceland has erupted for the first time in almost 200 years, raising concerns that it could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at a volatile volcano nearby....
Militant group in Kabul with draft peace deal
KABUL (AP) -- Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence Sunday as the nation's hard-line vice president expressed hopes for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban brought their own draft of a peace deal to the capital....
Recount calls add to Iraq's political tension
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's president on Sunday demanded a recount in this month's historic parliamentary elections, intensifying the political conflict over the not-yet-completed tally and increasing the chances that the vote will be a long, chaotic test of the nascent democracy....
Pope does not mention rebuke to Irish bishops
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged Catholics to refrain from judging sinners a day after he rebuked Irish bishops for their handling of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy....
Flood fears recede in Fargo as river hits crest
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The good news was all about things that didn't happen: No floodwaters pushing aside hastily built sandbag walls, no neighborhoods evacuated, no panicked residents wondering if they'd ever see their homes again....
2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Two police officers who had pulled over a suspicious vehicle were shot and wounded by the driver, and the suspect was killed when the officers returned fire, Baltimore police said Sunday....
Snowmobiles, ATVs, lobster boats used for census
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles - even lobster boats - to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace....
Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price
MIAMI (AP) -- Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles....
Tens of thousands rally for immigration reform
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated with the lack of action to overhaul the country's immigration system, tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied on the National Mall and marched through the streets of the capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish....
Enviros, growers agree on farmland reuse for solar
LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) -- Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm....
Obama vows commitment to immigration reform
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is reassuring immigration reform advocates that he is committed to working with Congress on a comprehensive bill to fix a "broken immigration system."...
Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it promoted an expansion of public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90....
Giant bluestone sculpture for sale in Catskills
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) -- Harvey Fite spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Visitors to Opus 40 walk through rock-wall mazes that swirl around a 9-ton monolith looming in the center like a Stone Age exclamation mark....
Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday....
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