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The tale of Yellow Tail brand
Since its launch in 2001, the Yellow Tail line of wines has hopped smartly to the front of the affordable wine pack. The brand's colorful wallaby-festooned label has spawned so many animal-themed wannabe's that a name for a whole new wine genre was...Tags: Bill Daley, Lifestyle and Leisure, Family, Dining and Drinking, Facebook
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David Blackwell dies at 91; mathematician, UC Berkeley's first tenured black professor
David Blackwell, a preeminent mathematician and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, died July 8 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley. He was 91 and had had a series of strokes.
Blackwell was known as a problem-solver...Tags: Science, Employment, Howard University, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics
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Former Southern basketball player to coach at Geneva
Central Florida Varsity the Blog - Orlando SentinelGeneva School has appointed Jasmin “Jazz” Noel as its boys basketball coach. Noel, who played at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., from 1992-94, was an assistant coach at Deltona Pine Ridge.... -
Agency paid out hundreds of millions to people who were untouched by disaster
Sun-SentinelThe federal government's mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe is only the latest bungling in a national disaster response system that for years has been fraught with waste and fraud. A South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation has found that...Tags: Television, Fraud, Hurricanes, Susan Collins, Furniture
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Little damage but big dollars after Lili
Sun-SentinelThree years before Hurricane Katrina struck, another monster storm headed for Louisiana with winds up to 145 mph. Lili "remains an extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane," the National Weather Service warned the night before landfall. "Deadly 10- to...Tags: Weather, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, Tropical Weather, Disasters and Accidents
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Disaster, politics go hand in hand
Sun-SentinelAssistance designed to help those struck by disaster has also become a tool for politicians to bring home prized federal dollars and a windfall to residents in some of the nation's poorest communities. In between are privately contracted damage...Tags: Local Government, Fraud, Hanover County, Hurricanes, Politics
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Tips on tipping: How much and to whom
You drive up to a hotel and the doorman opens the car door and grabs your bag; you have to give him a tip. The parking valet takes your car; his hand is out. The bellhop takes the luggage to the front desk, then up to your room; he waits for a tip. What...Tags: New York, Hotels and Accommodations, Wages and Pensions, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Tourism offices in U.S. states, territories
States and many U.S. territories have tourism offices to help visitors. When requesting travel literature, be as specific as possible.
Alabama: Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel, 401 Adams Ave., Suite 126, P.O. Box 4927, Montgomery, AL 36103; (800) 252-...Tags: Frankfort, Connecticut Economic Development, Little Rock, Nevada, Connecticut
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$1 million due port, city from Homeland Security
Sun StaffBaltimore and its port will share about $1 million in security money from the Department of Homeland Security, agency officials said yesterday, although they couldn't immediately say where it would be used. The federal agency said yesterday that it had...Tags: National Security, New Orleans, Michael Chertoff, Television Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Judge orders Muhammad moved to Md. for 2nd trial
Sun StaffA judge in Virginia ordered yesterday that death row inmate John Allen Muhammad be moved to Maryland, where he faces a second trial in the 2002 Washington-area sniper attacks. His defense lawyer said it is a waste of millions of dollars to try Muhammad...Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Family, Virginia, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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More trials hinge on Va. permission
Sun reporterJohn Allen Muhammad's conviction in Montgomery County clears the way for murder trials in other jurisdictions where bullets from the sniper's gun allegedly claimed victims - including Louisiana, Alabama and the District of Columbia. But officials in...Tags: Prisons, Montgomery County (Alabama), Montgomery County (Maryland), Lawyers, Montgomery County (Virginia)
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