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Texting While Driving, Smoking Target of '10 Laws

MADISON, Wis. – Texting while driving, smoking in public and cooking with artery-clogging trans fats will be that much harder under a bevy of state laws set to take effect around the country on Friday. Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little extra money to throw around, state lawmakers exercised …

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Explosion Tears Through Texas Industrial Plant, Sending Plumes of Smoke Into the Air

SEABROOK, Texas – An explosion at a chemical plant in the Houston area Wednesday shook nearby homes, generated black smoke seen for miles and injured two workers. A tank at the American Acryl plant in the Houston suburb of Pasadena exploded just before 9 a.m., Seabrook police Lt. Sean Wright …

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Georgetown University Students Slam Campus Magazine's 'Racist' Satire

WASHINGTON – Georgetown University students are slamming an online humor magazine for a satirical piece they say is racist and not funny. The story in the Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a cross-burning on campus and refers to “dark, human-shaped pinatas.” The Heckler seems to …

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