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Greek strikes halt air travel
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike. Flights resumed after being grounded between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m....
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Thune: Wind Cave campground to remain open
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Thune says the National Park Service has reversed a decision to close a campground at Wind Cave National Park in southwestern South Dakota. Officials announced in March that they were closing the Elk Mountain Campground due to automatic federal spending...
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Everglades restoration marks important milestone
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
MIAMI (AP) — There's finally a crack in the dam blocking the natural flow of water into Everglades National Park. The Tamiami Trail that traverses South Florida's wetlands has kept water from flowing into the park for more than 80 years. On Wednesday, a backhoe broke through a 1-mile stretch...
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EPA taking comments on ND air pollution matter
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Environmental groups say the federal government should order two coal-fired power plants in western North Dakota to use more sophisticated pollution-control technology, but state officials say the matter already has been settled and no more debate is needed. The federal...
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SC slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Once one of about two dozen...
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Illinois historic sites extend hours for season
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Six Illinois historic sites are operating seven days a week for the convenience of tourists traveling in the spring and summer. Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville will be open seven days a week through October. Lewis and Clark in Hartford, the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office...
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Smithsonian plans to crowd fund for yoga exhibit
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution is announcing plans for what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga. When it opens in October, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" will feature temple structures, devotional icons and manuscripts as well as early...
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Kings Dominion hiring for central Va. park
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A sure sign of summer: Kings Dominion is hiring by the hundreds. The Doswell amusement park says it is amid a "hiring blitz" of about 400 seasonal employees ahead of the park's opening on May 24. The hiring is expected to continue right up to Memorial Day weekend. Kings...
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Haitian Compas Festival marks 15 years in Miami
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
MIAMI (AP) — The Haitian Compas Festival is marking its 15th anniversary in Miami. Ten bands and four DJs are on Saturday's line-up at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre in downtown Miami. The annual festival draws thousands of Haitian music fans. Over the years, organizers Rodney Noel and...
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Senate panel approves bill to create national ID
Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana driver's licenses would be used to comply with federal law requiring each state to create a national identification card for air travel, including domestic flights, under a proposal inserted Wednesday into a House bill by the Senate Transportation Committee....
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