More posts from the year 2009
Did Americans get any healthier over past decade? (AP)
AP – About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010.
New Year drunks should pay for hospital care? (Reuters)
Reuters – Excessive drinking over New Year’s Eve could cost Britain’s National Health Service as much as 23 million pounds, according to a report on Thursday which recommends drunks be charged a hospital admission fee of 532 pounds ($845.9).
Area happenings – Jacksonville Daily News
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Area happenings
Jacksonville Daily News ONSLOW COUNTY NAACP hosts its annual Emancipation Day at noon Jan. 1 at Sandy Run MB Church, 1503 Hargett Street with speaker the Rev. William Barber II. … |
Keeping the New Year safe – Jacksonville Daily News
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Keeping the New Year safe
Jacksonville Daily News New Year's Eve is the deadliest holiday of all on America's highways and roadways, according to local law enforcement officials who are reminding folks not … Keeping you and yours safe this New Year's |
Fla. man wanting ride to bar calls 911, arrested (AP)
AP – Authorities say a Florida man who called 911 claiming he’d been beaten and shot at was hoping the tale would get him a ride to a bar. Instead, 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras is facing charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of a law enforcement officer.
President Obama at Camp Lejeune North Carolina
In a speech at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, President Obama laid out his plan for responsibly ending the war in Iraq, which will end the combat mission by August 2010.
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