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Flooding feared along U.S.-Mexico border from Dolly
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly, which lashed the U.S.-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.
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Foreclosures rise 14 pct in Q2: RealtyTrac
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled from the same period a year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Friday.
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Three Spitzer aides charged in NY ethics probe
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A state ethics panel on Thursday said it filed charges against three aides to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer accused of leaking to newspapers information about his top Republican foe's travel on state aircraft.
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Virginia executes man for killing of co-worker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man convicted of the fatal beating of a co-worker in 2001 was put to death by lethal injection in Virginia on Thursday, becoming the fourth inmate in the state to be executed this year.
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Maine wages fight against toxic chemicals
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) - Hannah Pingree was so alarmed when she learned she had dangerously high levels of mercury, arsenic and other toxic chemicals in her body that she took her case to the Maine state legislature and challenged chemical makers.
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New York sues UBS, alleges auction-rate fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State sued UBS AG on Thursday, accusing the Swiss bank of committing a "multi-billion dollar fraud" by steering broker clients into auction-rate securities that became impossible to sell once the credit market tightened.
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Pentagon agency faulted for jeopardizing ID data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Personal data collected on military, civilian and contractor employees seeking federal security clearances between 1997 and 2005 could be at risk due to inaccurate record-keeping by the Pentagon agency that did the investigations, an audit showed on Thursday.
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Spill closes Miss. River, shuts off exports
BELLE CHASSE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The largest petroleum spill to hit the Mississippi River since 2005's Hurricane Katrina snarled ship traffic on Thursday from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico and brought flows of grain and other key exports to a standstill.
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U.S. retailer Boscov's fights for survival: report
(Reuters) - U.S. department store chain Boscov's is struggling to keep itself afloat as a drop in consumer spending across the mid-Atlantic region has hammered its sales and drained its cash, The New York Post said.
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Utah mine collapse caused by faulty design: probe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 2007 Utah coal mine collapse that killed six miners and three rescuers was triggered by a faulty mine design, federal investigators said on Thursday, rejecting the owner's claim that it was caused by an earthquake.
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