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Jefferson Co. creates rules to ease neighbors body farm concerns

Starting this fall, there will be a new body farm in East Tennessee and it's not on UT's campus. Monday night, the Jefferson County Commission put the final seal of approval on cadaver research facilities in their county. After months of complaints from neighbors about the possibility of a body farm for Carson Newman University, there was no hesitation from county commissioners at ...
US waiting seeing with Irans new chief

The U.S. State Department said Monday it wasn't surprised that Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power until ...
US releases names of Guantanamo indefinite detainees

The names of dozens of detainees held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released for the first time on Monday after a newspaper sued the federal government for the ...
NOPD looking for missing 62-year-old man

Passengers on a United Airlines flight on Monday helped subdue a man who they said stood up and screamed about the CIA, national security leaks and poison. The disruption occurred during Flight 116 from Hong Kong that eventually landed safely at its ...
Louisianas Cancer Alley may need a new nickname after two fatal blasts

Not that there should be tighter oversight of the Louisiana chemical industry or anything, but there were fatal blasts at two different Louisiana chemical plants last week. Thursday's explosion at the Williams Olefin ...

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On a short list of the most important horror films of the last 50 years, Tobe Hoopers low-budget 1973 masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre invariably finds itself at the top, along with Hitchcocks Psycho (1960) and George A. Romeros Night of the Living ... ...

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Atlanta Falcons Gleason radio segment completely inappropriate

One of the three Atlanta radio hosts involved in a segment in which they mocked Steve Gleason said he got what he deserved following his termination from the radio ...
Fired Atlanta radio host on Gleason skit Got what I deserved

One of the three Atlanta radio hosts involved in a segment in which they mocked Steve Gleason said he got what he deserved following his termination from the radio ...
Louisiana seafood takes center stage at Aspen International Food Wine Classic

It was an international celebration of food and wine like no other, in the breathtaking backdrop of Aspen, Colorado. Chef Andrew Zimmern even goes so far as to call the Aspen Food and Wine Classic, ';The best food weekend of the year!'; ';It’s really become sort of the showcase internationally for all the best food and wine,'; according to Top Chef judge Gail ...
Flood protection system completed on Westbank

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local leaders marked the completion of the new 100-year Westbank and Vicinity Perimeter Risk Reduction System on Monday morning just below the Highway 90 bridge in St. Charles ...
Habitat for Humanity in West St. Tammany suspends taking applications

Foster applied to Habitat For Humanity West St. Tammany. She put in her 300 hours of seat equity, attended classes and her dream of home ownership came true. Foster and her family moved in earlier this ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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One dead, 77 injured in US chemical plant blast

At least one person was killed and 77 injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal's home state of Louisiana in southern US.

"This has been a tragic incident," said Republican Jindal Thursday, during a briefing near the plant in Geismar, part of a heavily industrial region known as "Cancer Alley," between capital Baton Rouge and the state's biggest city, New Orleans.

Some environmental advocates cited by the Chicago Tribune said Thursday's explosion should draw attention to hazards in a region once known as "Bhopal on the bayou."

The Bhopal disaster in December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal in India, is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals.

The corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is particularly dense with refineries and petrochemical plants, the Tribune said.

The surrounding region is the most prone in the nation to toxic oil spills and releases, according to US Environmental Protection Agency records.

Last year, the EPA region including Louisiana was second in the nation in toxic accident reports. ...