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W.Va. sheriff killed, suspect in custody

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was shot to death Wednesday in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch, and State Police said the suspect was in a hospital with gunshot wounds inflicted by …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
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Census: Gap wider than ever

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - A Wall Street adviser leaves early for work to avoid panhandlers at his suburban train station. In coal country, a suddenly homeless man watches from a bench as wealthy women shop for dresses. A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
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Fishing families turn to fast food, 'grind meats'

POINTE A LA HACHE, La. - Grow up on the water, the children of southern Louisiana learn, and you'll never go hungry. As long as you can toss a line, a net or a trap, you can eat - and eat well.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle

NEW ORLEANS - In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Paranoia, anxiety grow over spill

GRAND ISLE, La. - People along the Gulf Coast have spent weeks living with uncertainty, wondering where and when a huge slick of oil might come ashore, ruining their beaches - and their livelihoods.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Gulf spill could affect shoppers

NEW ORLEANS - The calamitous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn't just a mess for the people who live or work on the coast. If you drink coffee, eat shrimp, like bananas or plan to buy a new set of tires, you could end up paying more because …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Air still unsafe; rescuers wait to re-enter mine

MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Anxious search crews prepared late Thursday to pump nitrogen into a coal mine where an explosion killed 25, a last-ditch bid to flush dangerous gases out and allow rescuers to reach up to four survivors.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO