Police are having difficulty cracking down on the smuggling of illegal stimulants amid an increase in their use celebrities as well as ordinary people, including students and teachers.

Democrats prevailed 60-40 over Republican opposition early Monday, voting to block a threatened GOP filibuster of a last-minute package of Democratic amendments.

Businessweek Magazine recently reported that "the federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time."

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Facing another huge deficit, the governor wants $8 billion or threatens massive cuts in social services. He also plans to renew push for offshore oil drilling.

Wall St is celebrating healthcare "reform." Industry insider report by showed health care stocks rallied as the bill moved thru Senate, particularly since there is no public option to compete or compare with insurance company rate-making.

With supermarkets no longer supplying as many leftovers, food banks are approaching farmers directly to bring imperfect, but still edible, fruits and vegetables to the needy.

A dog in suburban New York is the first in the nation confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans, experts said Tuesday

Yet more meetings while forests burn; some see hope in proposed fund

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