Thousands in WVA Still Without Phone Service
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After an outage Tuesday morning knocked out phone service to an estimated 20,000 locations in West Virginia, FiberNet -- the company whose systems failed -- is still working on the problem over 24 hours later. Hospitals and police departments have been given priority, however, and most had phone service restored early Wednesday.
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The Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's current efforts to relieve backlogs won't be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators said Tuesday.
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With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
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More than 100,000 homes and businesses were without power this morning as a sleet and ice storm downed electricity lines and blew out transformers throughout the region, hitting hardest in Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties.
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Utilities in the U.S. Central Plains  said nearly 400,000 customers remained without power on Friday  due to ice storms this week.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Federal disaster assistance money started flowing to Hurricane Charley&#39;s victims and postal workers handed out mail Tuesday outside their damaged building, but hundreds of thousands still had no phones, no running ...
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Nearly 1.7 million U.S. veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the Veterans Affairs health program, health care advocates said on Tuesday.
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By Paul Dellinger paul.dellinger@roanoke.com (276) 228-4752  One four-year regional effort to bring the future of telecommunications technology to the New River Valley may now be obsolete.  And that's mainly because of funding shortages and sore political feelings.
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Hundreds of thousands in Pakistan are now stranded without help four days after a cyclone hit coastal areas.
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Louisiana emergency crews discovered they still had trouble communicating with various agencies during a two-day mock hurricane evacuation, officials said Wednesday.
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Thousands of people in the north of England remain without water and power as more bad weather is forecast.
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Hundreds of soldiers being denied vital help to cope with the psychological fallout of war
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The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.
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Nearly 1.7 million military veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics for veterans, according to a report Tuesday from a doctorsâ group that favors federally financed health care.
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Red Cross says up to 100,000 people have been displaced as violence continues to rage
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A major outage is affecting many Skype users' ability to log on to the network and send IMs. The company is mum, but some pin the blame on a series of Microsoft updates released yesterday.
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Hundreds of local governments are unable to access money they deposited in a statewide investment pool.