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Judge: Corps’ failure led to Katrina flooding

Ruling says navigation channel wasn’t properly maintained


updated 7:24pm PT | November 18, 2009


NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast in 2005.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval late Wednesday ruled in favor of residents who alleged the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish.

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CBO: Senate health plan to cost $849 billion

Measure would add coverage for 31 million, reduce deficit over 10 years


updated 5:37pm PT | November 18, 2009



WASHINGTON – Setting up a historic year-end health care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to all but 6 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.

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CSUS police send warning to Causeway Classic revelers

By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 - 2:01 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 - 2:11 pm



Sacramento State police are warning tailgating revelers at the Causeway Classic football game this Saturday to watch how many beers they have with the brats.
University police and other law enforcement officers will be in force around Hornet Stadium before, during and after the 2:05 p.m. game between Sacramento State and the University of California, Davis.

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Awards honor top 10 Internet moments of the decade

By Doug Gross, CNN
November 18, 2009 4:51 p.m. EST



(CNN) -- The explosion of Craigslist's online classifieds. The death of Napster. The "Twitter Revolution" in Iran.

All big moments on the Internet. In fact, they're among the 10 biggest of the past decade, according to the Webby Awards.

The group that runs the awards -- itself an online institution for more than a decade -- on Wednesday released what it considers the 10 most influential Internet moments of the 2000s.

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Calif. requires TVs to be more energy efficient

By SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press Writer - Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:06PM EST



Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators Wednesday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate to reduce electricity demand.

On a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission required all new televisions up to 58 inches to be more energy efficient, beginning in 2011. The requirement will be tougher in 2013, with only a quarter of all TVs currently on the market meeting that standard.

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Free downtown Sacramento parking begins Nov. 27

By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 - 7:56 am
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 - 8:10 am



To encourage shopping and nightlife in downtown Sacramento this holiday season, streetside meters will go unread weeknights and weekends and parking in a midtown garage will be free.

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Top female execs still rare, UC Davis study shows

A Survey by the university and a women’s advocacy organization finds that women held just 10.6% of executive positions and board seats at the state’s biggest companies this year

By Nathan Olivarez-Giles

November 19, 2009

Women have made little progress in breaking the glass ceiling at California's top publicly traded companies, according to a report scheduled to be released today.

Citing "a bleak picture of the progress of women in corporate leadership" over the last five years, the report said that women held just 10.6% of executive positions and board seats at the state's biggest companies this year, a slight decline over 2008.

LATimes

Virginia Tech Survivor With Hidden Camera Films Dangerous Gun Sales at Gun Shows

By: Paul Helmke
President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Posted: November 18, 2009 11:50 AM



Should someone who wants to buy a military-style assault weapon be required to undergo a criminal background check?

In America they don't have to.

In fact, felons, gangsters, wife-beaters, and the dangerously mentally ill can buy as many military-style assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols and other firearms as they can carry, with no questions asked.

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Fed Officials play down impact of weak dollar

Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:05am EST

By Kevin Plumberg and Neil Chatterjee

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials on Thursday downplayed the consequences of the falling U.S. dollar, underscoring that deflation is still a threat, especially with commercial real estate prices falling.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said in an interview with Market News International that the weakening dollar, which hit a 15-month low against major currencies on Monday, is only one of the factors the Fed watches when setting policy.

Reuters

Alcohol ‘protects men’s hearts’

updated at 00:31 GMT, Thursday, 19 November 2009

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.

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