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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Texans sue to stop work on border fence
Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class- action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
Members of the Texas Border Coalition said Chertoff did not fairly negotiate compensation with landowners for access to their land for six-month surveys to choose fence sites.
The coalition of mayors and business and community leaders is seeking an injunction to block work on the fence.
They also want a federal judge to rescind all the agreements with landowners and to order Chertoff to start again. The department has sought and won access from hundreds of landowners to determine where to build the fence and other barriers.
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Nevada
Hepatitis C outbreak traced to syringes
RENO, Nev. — A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report bolsters earlier conclusions by state and county officials, which led to the biggest public health notification operation in U.S. history.
State health officials contacted the CDC on Jan. 2 after two people treated at the now-closed Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada were diagnosed with acute hepatitis C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Nominee to head FEC withdraws his name
President Bush's contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission removed his name from consideration Friday, potentially ending a lengthy stalemate that had paralyzed the work of the agency.
Hans von Spakovsky, who never had Democratic support, withdrew his nomination.
— From wire reports
Posted by shaver_one on May 19, 2008 at 11:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Build a 30 foot fence to block the border, and they will build a 35 foot ladder to get over it.
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