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County readies for new EMA building
Review - LISBON - The Columbiana County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to send a notice of lease termination to Willard Hillyer, who owns the building on Lisbon-Canfield Road where the county Emergency Management Agency has been located for several years

Workers' comp insurance check up avai
Nevada Appeal - Anyone with Internet access can now check whether an employer has valid workers' compensation insurance. The Coverage Verification Service was put online to make it easier for individuals to check on employer coverage and to reduce the estimated 10

Beacon Mutual Director Resigns In Wake Of Audit
News Channel 10 - PROVIDENCE -- A director of Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., the Rhode Island's largest workers' compensation insurance company, resigned Thursday in the wake of an internal audit, NBC 10 News reported. NBC 10's Bill Rappleye reported that Sheldon

Wal-Mart Bill not a good idea
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - Politicians and social engineers tend to impose new rules and new taxes on the big guy first, sometimes to the cheers of the little guy. But then they start moving down the ladder until, of course, they have their hooks in all of us. West

Men in middle have tall order
Honolulu Advertiser - WHAT: No. 4 UC Irvine (5-2, 2-1 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) vs. No. 7 Hawai'i (3-2, 1-1 MPSF). WHEN: 7 p.m. tomorrow and Friday. WHERE: Stan Sheriff Center. ALL-TIME SERIES: UH leads 25-3 (12-1 at home) TICKETS: $14 (lower bowl), $11 (upper

Criminals beware
Myrtle Beach Online - VIDEO: Watch a police officer get shot by a Taser during training for Taser certification (QuickTime player required) With hundreds of police officers on the streets and in cell blocks along the coastal Carolinas carrying Tasers, police brass say

Burden of insecurity rises as government machinery fails
East African Standard - Ochieng Rapuro explains why crime has become the biggest obstacle to economic progress On January 14, 2006, Kenyans woke up to news that Ms Joan Root, a wildlife filmmaker and conservationist had been murdered at her Lake Naivasha home after a gang

UCLA study finds laborers abused
Pasadena Star-News - By Gary Scott, Staff Writer PASADENA - Poor pay, abusive employers and work- related injuries are common conditions for the 117,600 day laborers in the United States, according to a nationwide study. More than three-quarters of these day laborers are