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Pampered pumpkin picked as plumpest of them all
Found: 29 Minutes ago
California Examiner - Thad Starr's giant pumpkin really began putting on weight in August - a lot of weight. The pumpkin gained about 30 pounds a day on its way to victory Monday at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay. ...
Footage of mistreated hens released in support of Proposition 2
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Los Angeles Times - Birds are shown crammed into cages or left to die at what backers say is Norco Ranch in Riverside County. Opponents of the measure to give farm animals more space call the video 'politically motivatedIn the run-up to a ballot initiative that would regulate the treatment of farm animals, an animal rights group has released footage showing egg-laying hens crammed into filthy cages, while, nearby, discarded birds are left to die in piles of corpses....
City phone customers can get 911-fee refund
Found: 1 Hour 6 Minutes ago
Santa Cruz Sentinel - City residents could buy a few more caramel apples at Marini's at the Beach this fall if they apply for a refund of a phone-line fee that was in effect for years but repealed last spring after a similar charge was ruled illegal elsewhere in the state....
Photos of ailing Kim don't appear to have been taken recently
Found: 1 Hour 13 Minutes ago
San Diego Union-Tribune - SEOUL, South Korea – The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August....
Economic politics
Found: 1 Hour 26 Minutes ago
Eureka Times Standard - It's three weeks to Election Day, and the economy has officially taken center stage in the race to the White House. ”It's like a forest fire that, on a windy day, just sweeps through an area,” Humboldt State University Economics...
Wall Street roars back from worst week ever
Found: 1 Hour 28 Minutes ago
Tahoe Daily Tribune - NEW YORK - Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering relief from eight......
County unemployment at highest rate in decade
Found: 1 Hour 29 Minutes ago
Eureka Times Standard - The Humboldt Economic Index numbers are in for August, and the picture isn't pretty. ”The most troubling data is clearly in the labor market,” said Humboldt State University Economics Department Chair Erick Eschker, who also directs...
Changes in prices, menus loom
Found: 1 Hour 31 Minutes ago
Ventura County Star - Restaurants, working to secure supply and price contracts for meat and other commodities for next year, are expecting big increases in food costs, which will likely lead to menu changes and price hikes. Some chains are already adjusting menus to reflect current high costs for beef and chicken. ...
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