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Mail Call - July 19
“Miss Maryland, don’t let PETA bully you into giving up your fur coat. If they want one, they can buy their own.” — Hagerstown “Today in Mail Call there are nine entries regarding the 17 schools that did not make AYP. Did...Tags: Health, NASA, Politics, Science and Technology, Republican Party
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Everything 'they' told us is wrong
timr@herald-mail.comWhen I was a grad student, I took out a student loan in the amount of $4,000. I didn’t need the money, I just thought it would be cool to have $4,000. Grants and scholarships paid my tuition, it was easy to find work for spending money, and...Tags: American International Group, Occupy Wall Street, Steve Jobs, Companies and Corporations, Blue Chip Stocks
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US judge: Spill claims czar not independent of BP
The embattled administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims is not independent from BP and must stop telling potential claimants that he is, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, just hours after the fund czar released details...Tags: White House, Mississippi, Trials, Lawyers, Washington (U.S. state)
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Gas prices are about more than just oil
When Jay Ricker, owner of the BP gas station off Interstate 70 in Plainfield, Ind., set the price of unleaded gasoline at $3.44 per gallon on Monday of last week, it was 4 cents higher than the Friday before.
That alone might have been irritating to...Tags: Apple iPhone, Human Interest, Politics, Market and Exchange, Petroleum Industry
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Letters to the Editor - March 6
We can't pick and choose the country's fundamentals To the editor: I wish to comment on the recent article on same-sex marriage. Although I am a Christian and believe in marriage between a man and a woman, I feel due to the government's turn of...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Politics, Ecosystems, Values, Marriage
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Russian state-owned oil firm takes stake in BP
British oil company BP announced Friday night that Russia's state-owned oil firm Rosneft will take 5 percent of BP's ordinary voting shares in a major stock swap. In exchange, Rosneft will give BP about 9.5 percent of its shares, BP said. The deal was...Tags: Tony Hayward, Russia, Politics, Elections, Companies and Corporations
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Top business stories in 2010: Economy grows but hiring lags
In 2010, the economy rebounded fitfully from the Great Recession — starting strong, wobbling at midyear but showing enough vigor by year's end to quell fears of a second recession.
Yet Americans hardly felt relief under the weight of high...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Mortgages, Politics, Petroleum Industry, Europe
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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Kamala D. Harris, Companies and Corporations, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Tesoro gets state and federal clearance to buy BP's Arco assets
State and federal authorities cleared the way Friday for Tesoro Corp. to buy BP's Carson refinery, the Arco brand and other assets, and the Texas oil giant agreed to California restrictions on prices, jobs and retrofits to protect the environment. The...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Kamala D. Harris, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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As Memorial Day nears, California gasoline prices rise above $4
Summer is coming. The long Memorial Day weekend is just two weeks away and, of course, average gasoline prices in California are back up above $4 a gallon. On Friday, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in California was $4.062, up 7.6...
Tags: Memorial Day, AAA, Petroleum Industry, Auto Trends, Gasoline Industry
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Obama administration allows wind farms to kill eagles, birds, despite federal laws
Associated PressCONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Petroleum Industry, Prosecution, Natural Resources Defense Council, Science and Technology
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Cops: Man lost fingers in homemade bomb blast
FloriDUHA worker at a BP gas station in Tampa dialed 911 Tuesday afternoon to report a man in the parking lot who had injured his hand with fireworks, according to a news release from the Tampa Police Department. Officers who arrived immediately transported...Tags: Tampa, Explosions, Bombings, FBI, Emergency Incidents
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