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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

EEOC wins money for obese worker

HOUSTON, July 25 (UPI) -- A Texas man who weighed almost 700 pounds when he was fired is to receive $55,000 in a settlement of an equal opportunity complaint, officials said. BAE Systems Tactical Vehicle Systems, a company headquartered in Virginia, also agreed to provide six months of job-hunting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Pioneer woman astronaut Sally Ride dies

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 61, her organization, sallyridescience.com, announced Monday. Ride, who was 32 when she launched aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, was with the National... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Israel wants EU to blacklist Hezbollah

JERUSALEM, July 23 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to ask European foreign ministers to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, officials said. Lieberman was scheduled to arrive in Brussels Monday to meet with European Union Foreign Policy head Catherine Ashton and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Bomb danger in Colo. apartment reduced

AURORA, Colo., July 21 (UPI) -- Police said they set off an explosion Saturday at the booby-trapped apartment of the Colorado theater-shooting suspect, significantly reducing the danger. "We believe we have eliminated the major threats there, but we still have some more work to do," Aurora Police... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Police set off blast in Colo. apartment

AURORA, Colo., July 21 (UPI) -- Police set off an explosion Saturday at the booby-trapped apartment of the Colorado theater-shooting suspect, James Eagan Holmes. The Los Angeles Times said the controlled detonation was set off inside the Aurora apartment after several blocks of nearby Peoria Street... Sign in to see full entry.

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