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Pawlenty to attend funeral of Minnesota airman

Gov. Tim Pawlenty will attend a funeral Saturday in northern Minnesota for a National Guard major killed in the crash of a military cargo plane in Alaska.

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BP agrees to pay $50M for Texas refinery penalties

Beleaguered oil giant BP has agreed to pay a record $50 million fine for failing to correct safety hazards at its Texas City oil refinery after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.

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Iowa city resigned to bottled water after floods

Residents of Ames, Iowa, are lining up for bottled water because burst water mains caused by heavy flooding have rendered the city's tap water unsafe to drink.

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Tropical depression halts drilling at Gulf well

Drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug the busted BP oil well deep below the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait two to three days as a strengthening tropical depression bears down on the site.

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Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash

A plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and eight others crashed in remote southwest Alaska, killing the longtime Republican lawmaker and four other people.

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Feds: Storms delay drilling for final BP well plug

Approaching storms forced crews to suspend drilling the final stretch of a relief well aimed at shooting a permanent underground plug into BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the government's point man for the disaster said Tuesday.

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Gulf relief well crews watch for tropical weather

Gulf relief well crews watch for tropical weather

Crews finishing work meant to forever stop oil from leaking from a blown-out undersea well into the Gulf may have one more hurdle to overcome: the weather.

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