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  • Missing Adult, HELP NEEDED (crime in progress?) [SC]

    11/15/2002 12:02:43 PM PST · by Cascadians · 3,007 replies · 7,355+ views
    This is an urgent plea for help from Prairie Lady; these are her posts: [copied] I JUST got off the phone with my neice. It seems my sister (her mother) is missing since yesterday between 3pm and 4:40pm yesterday from the SouthCarolina area. She headed north as far as we can track, but then nothing. This is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of her. We need to know if she is on her own willingly making decisions, or if she has been abducted and is in need of help. Is there anybody from that area that can help? ---------------------- ok, she spoke to...
  • Rand Paul says Kentucky living under ‘dictatorship of Beshear.’ He urges reopening.

    05/07/2020 8:42:26 PM PDT · by rintintin · 12 replies
    Kentucky.com ^ | May 7 2020 | DANIEL DESROCHERS
    U.S. Senator Rand Paul Thursday accused Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear of being “drunk with power” and said the state is living under the “dictatorship of Beshear” while making an argument to reopen the economy in an interview with a Louisville television station. “So we have a relatively weak governor under normal circumstances, but right now we’re living under the dictatorship of Beshear, and we’ve got to get out from under him,” Paul told Lawrence Smith of WDRB. “He’s killing the economy. We have to get started again, and if we’re doing it according to his rules, there are going to...
  • National Oil Bargaining Talks Break Down:USW Calls for Work Stoppage at Nine Oil Refineries,Plants

    02/01/2015 11:53:52 AM PST · by mdittmar · 38 replies
    The United Steelworkers Union (USW) ^ | Feb 01, 2015 | The United Steelworkers Union (USW)
    Work Stoppage to Begin 12:01 AM Local Time Pittsburgh — The United Steelworkers Union (USW) announced that it is calling for a work stoppage at the following US refineries:LyondellBasell in Houston, TX;Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, TX;Marathon Houston Green Cogeneration facility, Texas City, TX;Marathon Refinery, Catlettsburg, Ky;Shell Deer Park Refinery, Deer Park, TX;Shell Deer Park Chemical Plant, Deer Park, TX;Tesoro Anacortes Refinery, Anacortes, Wash.;Tesoro Martinez Refinery, Martinez, Calif.; andTesoro Carson Refinery, Carson, Calif.All these refineries will go on strike at 12:01 am local time.
  • Clinton's derby pick put down

    05/04/2008 9:21:03 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 19 replies · 206+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 5 May 2008
    THE only filly in the legendary US Kentucky Derby, which Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to put their money on, broke both its ankles and was destroyed on the track after the race ended. Senator Clinton will be hoping Saturday's derby does not prove to be a political omen. Runner-up Eight Belles, whom Senator Clinton had urged supporters to put their money on as the sole female runner was humanely destroyed on the track minutes after the race ended. Barack Obama, Clinton's African-American rival for the Democratic White House nomination, may draw comfort from both the winning thoroughbred's name and...