Bobblehead Sends Wash. Workers Fleeing
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TUMWATER, Wash. - Talk about a blunder. A bomb technician discovered that a suspicious package that forced more than 300 workers to evacuate a state building contained a bobblehead doll awarded to public officials for perceived errors.
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LABOR: Members march outside the Labor Department in Washington, DC, to protest the regulations that took effect Monday. BY LEIGH STROPE.
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Hundreds of residents fled their northeastern Oklahoma homes Tuesday with all they could carry as floodwaters pushed destruction downstream. One river carried an oil slick toward a reservoir that supplies water to several cities.
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An accidental chemical release from Valero Energy Corp.'s Houston refinery on Wednesday sickened dozens of workers and triggered a warning for nearby residents to evacuate.
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By Stanley Ziemba, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 9--A forklift punctured a drum containing a chemical used in producing plastics at a Willow Springs plant late Wednesday, creating noxious fumes that sent eight workers at a nearby UPS facility to the hospital, officials said Thursday.
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A puzzling neurological disease has surfaced in 12 workers at a pork processing factory in Minn.
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Rescuers pulled bodies from floodwaters yesterday that raged through parts of Haiti&#39;s third-largest city, sweeping people from their homes and driving survivors into trees, atop cars and onto rooftops after Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Five visitors to Walt Disney World and an employee suffered minor injuries Tuesday while evacuating a water ride that had malfunctioned, authorities said.
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About 5,400 residents within a one-mile radius of a train wreck that killed at least eight people and sickened more than 250 were forced to evacuate on Friday after one of the nation's deadliest toxic chemical spills in years.
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In the end, their free LeBron James bobbleheads gyrating in their hands, the sellout crowd at Gund Arena half-heartedly booed at the loss of their free food.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--Hear the schwoosh, schwoosh, schwoosh!   The thwap, thwap, thwap of spinning brushes, flushing and washing months of grime and salt off cars.   The howling air making wipers chatter and water skitter on windshields.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - City Hall workers were alarmed when they were forced to evacuate after a ticking package was delivered. The alarm ended when the alarm went off.
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An animal rights group has threatened  to damage homes and property of Wachovia Corp. workers after  saying it spray-painted the home and car of a bank employee in  Portland, Oregon.
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Factory managers detained over toxic river spill in central China county    CHANGSHA, Sept.
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The city of Berkeley last week took aim at Marine recruiters, saying they're "not welcome in our city" and encouraging protesters to impede their work. GOP lawmakers in Washington have fired back, threatening to take $2 million back from the city.
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They sought refuge in a towel factory. As they entered, many of the factory workers were still there, clinging to the floor, trying to steer clear of stray bullets.
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A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.