Cops to Cut Down Tree That Draws Crime
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies think they have found a solution for getting rid of drug dealers and prostitutes who congregate under a giant oak tree: chop it down...
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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Increasingly, trees are the new must-have for American cities.
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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--The event wasn't very eventful: watching two hard-hat-wearing, chainsaw-wielding men cutting the tree until the large cottonwood began to creak, then lean, and then with "thud ... crackle, crackle," it was down.
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With tensions rising and the police department and municipal budget stretched thin, Hazleton is about to embark on one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants anywhere in the United States.
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There's an old truth about hurricanes: they take out the trees that gardeners don't have the heart to cut down.
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 24--The Miami Commission is scheduled to discuss the issue of revisions to the city's tree ordinance Thursday at City Hall.
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TRAVERSE CITY - It may not replace cherries as the region&#39;s signature farm crop, but the area&#39;s Christmas tree industry is sprucing up all the same.
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Post mortems will be held on a man who died after driving into a tree, and a woman found murdered at his home.
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The Los Angeles City Council has declared the palm tree the enemy of the urban forest and wishes that most would disappear.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a comprehensive plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high-crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street for illegal weapons, all in a desperate effort to...
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Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
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By Sarah Brock, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 19--Trees along part of Interstate 185 are safe for now, following a  Monday decision in Muscogee County Superior Court.   Judge Doug Pullen issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit concerning  tree-cutting along I-185.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.