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The Justice Department investigation centers on a 2006 decision to award oil shale leases in Colorado to a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary. Months later, the oil giant hired Norton as a legal counsel. Reporting from Washington - The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Departmen The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department's 2006 decision to award three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a...

Wave of low pressure east of Norfolk VA moving towards New England. Will it be a tropical storm and what can they expect?

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gale Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show," has died at age 87.

Back to the Future Part IV / Time After Time 2By J. Neil SchulmanA movie I would love to see but am never going to be allowed to write.--JNS While traveling through the American southwest, Sherlock Holmes1 is hired by the railroad to investigate the hijacking and destruction of a locomotive that was deliberately crashed, apparently senselessly, off an unfinished railroad bridge into Shonash Ravine 2, Hill County, Texas. During his investigation Holmes sees a flying locomotive engineered by a white-haired man and a dark-haired woman2, which Holmes initially attributes to a cocaine-induced hallucination3. However, further investigation of forensic...

There's nothing quite as annoying as a self-righteous liberal and director Alan ("Angela's Ashes") Parker couldn't have been more self-righteous in this anti-death penalty film if he included a musical number with the ghosts of electrocuted inmates singing and dancing to "Love is a Beautiful Thing." "The Life of David Gale" is like being sprayed with a fire hose for a couple of hours. The very idea that David Gale (Kevin Spacey) would sacrifice himself for the cause is so ludicrous I thought I was going to start shooting welfare payments out my ass like a malfunctioning automated teller. These...