Nursing hopefuls among dead in Cagayan hotel blaze
Fifteen people, including nine nursing graduates about to take their board examinations, were killed after a fire broke out in a five-story lodging house in Tuguegarao City early Sunday morning. read more…
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Patrons back Cuneyit Erdal, ‘squeezed’ owner of Kensington Shell station
Mike Mclaughlin, DAILY NEWS WRITER Gas station customers put the pedal to the metal to help a Kensington station owner try to save his business from a middleman charging him high prices for fuel. Customers fled Cuneyit Erdal’s Shell station …
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BREAKING NEWS: Perryville Middle School bus rear-ended with 30 aboard
A car rear-ended a school bus carrying about 30 students from Perryville Middle School this afternoon.
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Best of 2010: Internet memes
In evaluating the year’s best memes and viral videos, it’s tempting to look to the slick and big-budget – the flash mob “Hallelujah” Chorus, for example – the things that make you go slack-jawed and wonder howdidthey . . . But this year the memes that stuck with me were the ones that captured unp…
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Consumer confidence grows as the year comes to close
Spending by U.S. consumers and businesses probably accelerated in November, a signal the economy is speeding up at the end of the year, economists forecast before reports this week. Household purchases rose 0.5 percent after a 0.4 percent increase in October, according to the median estimate of 62 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News ahead of Dec. 23 figures from the Commerce Department.
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