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countries like with megabits per or fastest in the world at 61 megabits per migrant workers Settle claims against Nursery new Haven a dozen guatemalan workers have reached a settlement with a Connecticut Nursery accused of forcing them to work nearly 80 hours a week for less than mini mum their attorney the settlement resolves claims that the Nursery underpaid work but attorney Michael Wishnie said he will continue to pursue claims that the Independent com Pany that recruited them engaged in human the who filed the Law suit against Imperial nurseries in Granby and its labor say they were promised jobs planting Trees in North Carolina for an they say they were taken in a Van to Connecticut without their had their passports confiscated so they would not escape and were threat ened with arrest or Man recovering after Rod trusted into Skull Jupiter a Man remained in critical condition after being found with a Metal Rod through his and authorities said they arrested a authorities found Carlos Par Nell slumped behind the wheel of his he had been impaled with a Metal Rod that pierced his forehead and protruded from the Back of his police Patrick James was arrested on charges including aggravated Battery with a deadly weapon and potato Queen is sacked for playing event Hooky Royal intrigue at the Munger potato with Queen Allison Nowicki protesting her ouster Over claims of playing Nowicki had about six weeks left in her reign when she got a let american Roundup Ter from the festivals Queen com Mittee saying it was dethroning her for failure to attend enough events As not says who appeared at the miss Bay county Johns mint Bay county Montrose Blue Berry festival and Linwood Pickle the Only one i missed was the Bay City Patricks Day a a Sophomore at Lake Superior state University in Sault told the Bay City times for a monday i called the first runner up and told her i want going to make first runner up Katie daughter of festival chairman Don will serve As Queen until a new King and Queen Are crowned july 26 at the 53rd Annu Al Munger potato dad teachers Bootleg gave kids poor lesson Peekskill he Doest want to be an ogre about but the father of a fifth grader thinks teachers Are wasting time when they show movies in class and if the film is a he that a re ally terrible Tim said his 10yearold daughter reported that her class watched the animated movie Shrek the third and recognized it As the fairytale hit still showing in a Friend hooked me up with teacher Lovell Quiroz according to the Peekskill schools superintendent Judith Johnson issued a statement saying administrative approval is required before a video is shown in elementary school and if a pirated video was shown it is in violation of District an investigation was fighting the heat Josh owner of Green masters Lawn houses himself with the water Hose while maintaining a Lawn at Mai source Bank in under the statement Laptop stolen with Hurt workers info Columbus Lap top containing social Security numbers and other per Sonal information from about 439 injured workers was stolen from a state officials the Laptop was stolen two weeks before Ted Strickland announced a larger Security breach the theft of a computer backup tape from an interns car that contained personal information on state employees the names and social Security num Bers of the Laptop was stolen from a Bureau auditors according to the Ohio Bureau of workers professor plans analysis of 50yearold gasoline Norman the ply Mouth Belvedere buried in a time capsule was Rusty and in drivable but gasoline cached with the car could have scientific the people who put together the time capsule 50 years ago in Tulsa included two containers of gasoline in Case fuel was no longer available for the Plymouth when the vault was unsealed this for Paul a professor of Petroleum and environmental geochemistry at the University of the Gas is valuable on its were going to begin Finger printing the gasoline and com pare it to modern Day he who specializes in environmental forensic Hopes researchers will be Able to use the comparison of old and new Gas As a reference to determine the age of gasoline spills that have leaked into the mayor blasts videotape As attempted conspiracy Memphis mayor will in Yerenton stepped be fore television cameras to announce he had made a startling discovery White business men were plotting to derail his reelection by videotaping him having sex with a strip club wait the revelation earlier this month added a racial dimension to Here tons Campaign for a fifth term that would make him the longest serving mayor in Mem Phis the cites first elected Black stared into the and issued a warning for the snakes conspiring against it was an edgy even for a 6foot6 former Boxer with a taste for Polit ical combat and a self assured Ness that drives his critics to Dis he offered no evidence and refused to name the wealthy business leaders he said were be Hind the the conspiracy claims came from Gwendolyn a 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