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Austin drivers are paying $50 more per gallon on gas this year than they did last year.2.9

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A Port Coquitlam-based society policing internet crime handed out its annual award this week to a British team fighting online child abuse.3.1

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IAN - Some people in this backcountry community aren't keen on the idea of huge wind turbines being built atop a nearby mountain.2.9

Strong storms were forecast for parts of the country Saturday, with wind gusts to 65 mph, large hail and heavy downpours possible, meteorologists said.2.7

McEvoy Olive Ranch, one of Marin's most popular agricultural ranches, is proposing to build a 210-foot-tall windmill energy system that will generate enough electricity to ...2.7

There's nothing like a 60-per-cent hike in gas prices to encourage interest in alternative fuels.2.7

Chicago, other cities told attack possible around Sept. 11 Meat vs. veg Salons sued over alleged language ban Guardian sues to sterilize her niece More from today Past week ...2.7

Federal officials said Friday that all 65,000 of next fiscal year's H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers have been snapped up, the earliest that has ever happened.3.1

No issue has polarized the Los Altos School District like the shuttering of Los Altos Hills' only public school, but not one candidate for the district's school board has ...2.7

SO YOU WANT to study global warming? How about prediction of catastrophic weather formations.3.1

CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST: Seeking one or two individuals who will share 12 hours per week in our Dover Office for clerical and receptionist duties.2.7

SACRAMENTO - Although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has severed his ties to a publisher that owns major celebrity tabloids and bodybuilding magazines, the $5 million deal ...2.7

Virginia News Digest By the Associated Press Published August 12, 2005 ALEXANDRIA, Va.2.7

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this month found Bush's economic approval rating at 41 percent - his lowest rating yet in that poll and down from 47 percent in ...2.7

NASA's $720 million, Colorado-built Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter rose on a pillar of smoke and flame Friday morning, launching a four-year search for sites where water once ...2.7

Microsoft has released six new security updates, including three "critical" updates.2.7

I thought, 'OK, now I know.' I thought maybe she was going to pass him a key, Forsyth told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his Huntington home.2.7

Here is the latest on stories making news this hour: The chilling sounds of the desperate people trapped in the devastation and police officers trapped in the confusion of ...2

ValueClick , an online advertising agency, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy Fastclick for $214 million in stock to create the largest online advertising-network ...2.7

New York wildlife health experts warn that efforts to control the spread of bird flu across Asia must focus on better management practices.2.7

NASA engineers are developing an unmanned "flying eyeball" that will be used as an assistant to astronauts for the space shuttle and International Space Station.2.9

Malaysia lifted a state of emergency in two areas near the capital on Saturday after air pollution levels fell well below the danger mark, easing the country's worst ...2.7

A false positive in HTTP_Proxy_Cache_Poisoning was removed. A false positive in HTTP_PHP_Addslashes_ViewFiles was removed.2

Tengion Inc., a Pennsylvania biotechnology company, said yesterday that it plans to open a satellite office in the West Point Business Park in Winston-Salem early next year, ...2.7

Spherics Inc., a Lincoln-based biotechnology company spun out of Brown University with state assistance, is leaving Rhode Island for Mansfield, Mass.2.7

Suriname's president was inaugurated to a second term Friday, calling for national unity following elections that weakened his government's hold on Parliament and swelled ...2.7

Researchers at Utah State's Space Dynamics Lab are getting to ready to pick up some of their plant experiments that have been on the space station since 2002.2.9

A decision by Florida's attorney general Friday could scuttle plans by an Atlanta-based company for a controversial museum exhibit featuring human bodies preserved and posed ...2.7

STEM cell research is one of the most controversial and promising areas of science today.2.9

I thought I'd start this blog by presenting a few random highlights from OSCON 2005.2

Gov. Ernie Fletcher has been subpoenaed to appear before a special grand jury investigating his administration's hiring practices, the attorney general's office confirmed ...2.7