01/09/2009
BART apologizes for New Year's slaying (UPI)
OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Bay Area Rapid Transit board has apologized for the New Year's Day death of an unarmed man, shot by a transit police officer in Oakland, Calif.
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01/08/2009
Bonds steady after new year's slide (CNN Money)
Government bond prices reversed their new year's slide Thursday as investors weighed a flood of supply against a potentially sour unemployment report being released by the government on Friday.
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01/09/2009
New Year's DUI busts set record (Rocky Mountain News)
Police statewide arrested 569 drunken drivers during the New Year's holiday, the largest number since the Colorado Department of Transportation kicked off its DUI enforcement campaign in 1998.
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01/09/2009
Lafayette twist in Chinese New Year (Contra Costa Times)
EAST MEETS WEST in Lafayette this month when the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation sponsors a two-week Asian Arts and Culture celebration in concert with Chinese New Year.
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01/09/2009
Man faces deportation after New Year's gunfire (The Fresno Bee)
Evarardo Reynosa-Contreras was following a time-honored tradition for some in the central San Joaquin Valley when he raised a rifle and fired into the air to celebrate the new year.
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01/09/2009
Record number of Japanese visit temples or shrines during New Year holiday (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
TOKYO - A record 99 million Japanese visited Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples in the first three days of the New Year, the National Police Agency said Friday.
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01/08/2009
Freezing China warns of repeat of New Year gridlock (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
China is preparing to tackle paralyzed roads and railways if icy weather seizes the south and center in a possible repeat of last year's gridlock just as millions head home for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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01/09/2009
Concert to benefit victims of New Year's Day fire (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
A benefit concert will be held tomorrow night to help victims of the New Year's Day fire that claimed two businesses and damaged another at 858-862 Western Ave. in Allegheny West.
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01/09/2009
New looks for the new year (The Kansas City Star)
Some events call for retrospection and reminiscing, none so much as the arrival of a new year. From top 10 lists to the wise words of “Auld Lang Syne,” ruminating on the past is almost a requirement. But we’re taking a cue from fashion visionaries everywhere and bucking tradition. Instead of looking back at some of 2008’s do’s (ruffles) and don’ts (rompers), ...
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01/09/2009
569 arrested in state for DUI charges over New Year's (Greeley Tribune)
Police in Colorado nabbed a record number of suspected drunken drivers around the New Year's Eve holiday this year, safety officials announced Thursday.
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