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New Orleans Police said a man who was apparently acting as a good Samaritan on Saturday afternoon (April 8) was robbed at gunpoint in Algiers after he responded to someone who asked for help jump-starting their vehicle. Police said the 38-year-old male victim was flagged down by someone in the 3700 block of Gen. De Gaulle Drive who was asking for help jump-starting their car.

does anyone know of one made that can be recharged? all the ones I own (and ones sold in stores) are sealed . if they are left in a cold place(like an unheated garage), they become just as dead as the battery in the car you're trying to start.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise with him on jobs — but also assailed his plans in advance of his prime-time speech. ... According to people familiar with the White House deliberations, two of the biggest measures in the president's proposals for 2012 are expected to be a one-year extension of a payroll tax cut for workers and an extension of expiring jobless benefits. Together those two would total...

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(CNSNews.com) - Members of Congress are split on whether the National Guard should end its deployment along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, as planned. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff predicted the border would not be secured until 2011. (See earlier story)The Guard built 38.1 miles of new fencing, 18.5 miles of new roads, 94.5 miles of vehicle barriers and repaired 717 miles of road. The final withdrawal for the National Guard working in Operation Jump Start is planned for July 15. The National Guard's Noller said that Operation Jump Start is winding down because of a presidential directive....

EL PASO (AP) - A trio of Texas National Guard soldiers accused of opening fire in a neighborhood near Eagle Pass say boredom led to a joyride with two cases of beer and a loaded 9 mm pistol. The Operation Jump Start soldiers, Pfc. Brandon Jones, 23, of St. Jo, Pvt. David Hampton, 23, of McKinney, and Spc. Lydell Corey Sampract, 24, whose hometown was not available, were arrested Sept. 6 on felony charges of deadly conduct for allegedly shooting into the air in front of a house crowded with people at an outdoor barbecue. They spent a week in...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, September 24, 2002Simon Says State Must Re-Energize Tech Sector to Jump-Start Economy SUNNYVALE - Continuing to focus on solutions for California's sagging economy, gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon today visited the Silicon Valley, Ground Zero of the dot-com revolution, where he said re-energizing California's economy will depend heavily on re-energizing California's tech sector. "The tech industry represents the very best of what California has to offer," Simon said in a speech to the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. "It has been at the heart of the an economic boom in our economy over the past decade - an economic...