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U.S. home sales rise in April
Sales of previously owned U.S. homes increased in April, hitting their highest level in nearly four years and signaling that the housing market continued its rebound last month. Home sales increased 0.6% from the prior month and were up 9.7% from...Tags: Real Estate Sales, Homes, Real Estate, Services and Shopping, Inventories
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Washington Co. BOE considers options for space, program needs
julieg@herald-mail.comAfter hearing staff recommendations for school construction priorities for the next decade, the Washington County Board of Education talked about pushing back plans for a new high school and finding more creative ways to address space and program needs....Tags: Education, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Students, Schools, Teaching and Learning
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Central Florida tornado victims express sympathy for Oklahoma twister survivors
Central Florida residents have been transfixed by coverage of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., but Becky Nolan can't watch the images of debris and tear-stricken faces. It's too painful for Nolan, whose husband and younger son died in a...
Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, Kissimmee, Lake County (Florida)
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Storm damage reports
SPRINGFIELD, Mo From damage to a historic building in Lamar to a tree on a mobile home in Merriam Woods, reports of damage were scattered from Monday (5-20) night storms. KSPR News called emergency management directors across the Ozarks to see what...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Heavy Engineering
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DONATE: Red Cross helping tornado victims across the Midwest
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 20, 2013 — The American Red Cross is helping people in the Midwest with shelter, food, relief supplies and emotional comfort after tornadoes over the last couple of days injured many people and destroyed homes. As many as...
Tags: Google Play, Tornadoes, Human Interest, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service
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Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse
ReutersBy Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 21 (Reuters) - A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the...Tags: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Plant Openings, Land Price, Bangladesh, Disasters and Accidents
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Storms make a weekend mess in area
The Hutchinson News, Kan.Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes swept through Kansas over the weekend, leaving many residents cleaning up debris, but with no reports of injuries through Sunday evening. A strong thunderstorm blew through Hutchinson around 6:30 p.m. Sunday,...Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service
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Yuma second in nation for mobile homes
The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.Yuma is well-supplied with manufactured homes. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, 29 percent of housing units in the Yuma metro area are mobile homes. That's plentiful enough for second in the nation, not too far behind Farmington, N.M. (where 32...Tags: Real Estate, Services and Shopping, Media Industry, United States Census Bureau, Rentals
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Twisters batter Oklahoma, killing 1, injuring 21, wrecking homes
This post has been updated, as indicated below.A series of tornadoes raked a broad swath of the Midwest on Sunday, destroying homes and a trailer park in Oklahoma, killing one person and injuring at least 21 others, officials said. As night fell, rescuers with flashlights picked through the rubble...Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Mary Fallin
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Red Line construction project gets started
Tribune reporterHours into a Red Line construction project that promises to snarl commutes for months, the southbound train steered away from the Dan Ryan Expressway on Sunday morning and instead traveled down the Green Line tracks. As the operator reminded riders...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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Death toll rises to 2 in Oklahoma tornadoes; more storms expected
The death toll from the most recent outbreak of tornadoes in the Midwest climbed to two on Monday morning as parts of four states braced for the possibility of more storms by nightfall. An official at the Oklahoma state medical examiner’s office...
Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Mary Fallin, Weather Warnings
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Auto sales increase taxable retail sales in Kennewick, Pasco
Tri-City HeraldLast year was the best Doug Overturf has seen for car sales. The owner of Overturf Volkswagen Audi Kia in Kennewick said the number of new car sales especially grew, in part because more cars were available from manufacturers. Kennewick and Pasco...Tags: Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Luxury Vehicles, Audi, Honda
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