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Thursday, May 21, 2015
East Oregonian
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Oil slicks off California span nine miles
least tern, both endangered
shore birds, a spokeswoman
said.
GOLETA, Calif. — An
Members of the Inter-
oil spill that fouled beaches
national Bird Rescue were
and threatened wildlife
prepared to clean any birds
along a scenic stretch of the
covered with oil.
California coast spread across
Environmental
groups
9 miles of ocean Wednesday
used the spill as an oppor-
as cleanup efforts began and
tunity to take a shot at fossil
federal regulators investigated
fuels and remind people of the
how the pipeline leaked.
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Workers in protective suits
“Big Oil comes with big
raked and shoveled stinky
risks — from drilling to
black goo off the beaches,
delivery,” said Bob Deans,
while boats towed booms
spokesman for the Natural
into place to corral the two
Resources Defense Council.
slicks off the Santa Barbara
“Santa Barbara learned that
coast where a much larger
lesson over 40 years ago
spill in 1969 — the largest in
when offshore drilling led to
U.S. waters at the time — is
disaster.”
credited with giving rise to
Large offshore rigs still
the American environmental
dot the horizon off the coast,
movement.
pumping crude to shore. The
The amount of oil
leak occurred in a pipe that
released in the latest spill
was carrying crude from an
was unknown, but the pipe
onshore facility to another
was carrying 84,000 gallons
point in the chain of produc-
an hour before the leak was
tion that eventually leads to a
detected, suggesting more
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The oil spilled into a
gallons initially estimated.
It took three hours to shut An oil slick washes up on the shore Tuesday near Goleta, Calif. Capt. Dave Zaniboni of the Santa Barbara Coun- culvert running under a
down the pipe Tuesday, but ty Fire Department says the pipeline on the land near Refugio State Beach broke Tuesday and spilled oil into a highway and into a storm
drain that emptied into the
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leaked beforehand or discuss problems and was inspected
A combination of soiled from overlooking bluffs.
found in the calm seas or ocean.
The spill was not expected
the rate at which oil escaped about two weeks ago, though beaches and pungent stench
“It smells like what they rocky coast by late morning,
the pipe.
results of that inspection had of petroleum caused state use to pave the roads,” said said Capt. Mark Crossland of to affect gas prices, even
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of operation for now, said
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tation, which oversees oil manager with the company Capitan State Beach, both cleaner beaches in Santa
The department closed Tom Kloza, global head
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condition and the potential
“Plains is taking respon- Memorial Day weekend.
they lose their habitat.”
west of Refugio beach and it fact, Californians probably
regulatory violations.
sibility and paying for every-
Still, tourists were drawn
Environmental damage deployed booms to protect the will see prices drop because
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in 1991 had no previous spill,” Palmer said.
Highway to eye the disaster and oily birds had not been of the snowy plover and the in the past week, Kloza said.
Associated Press
Nebraska votes to abolish death penalty
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U.S. releases
hundreds of bin
Laden documents
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Documents swept up
in the raid on Osama bin
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a leader cut off from his
underlings, disappointed by
their failures, beset by their
complaints and regretting
years of separation from
much of his extensive
family.
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America, not each other,
the sidelined al-Qaida chief
exhorts his followers. In a
videotaped will, he urges
one of his wives, should she
remarry after his death, to
still choose to live beside
him in paradise. He also
directs her to send their son
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quirks in the collection, the
overall message of the 103
letters, videos and reports
made public Wednesday
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to kill Americans. Kill
Europeans. Kill Jews.
“Uproot the obnoxious
tree by concentrating on its
American trunk,” bin Laden
writes in a letter urging
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the Director of National
Intelligence said the
documents, released as
online images, were among
a collection of books, U.S.
think tank reports and other
materials recovered in the
May 2011 raid that killed
bin Laden at his compound
in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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public after a review by
government agencies, as
required by a 2014 law.
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found at the compound will
be reviewed for possible
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of business — personnel
training, budget matters,
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and collaborating groups”
— with fervent religious
appeals and updates on
terrorism plots, all written
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praise for God.
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application for al-Qaida
candidates that not only asks
typical human resources
questions about education
and hobbies but also,
“Do you wish to execute
a suicide operation?” It
requests an emergency
contact should the applicant
become a martyr.
DEA raids clinics,
pharmacies in 4
Southern states
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
(AP) — Authorities raided
medical clinics, pharmacies
and other locations across
the South on Wednesday as
part of a Drug Enforcement
Administration attempt to
thwart illegal prescription
drug sales.
The raids in Arkansas,
Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi were the latest
stage of an operation
launched last summer by
the Drug Enforcement
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diversion unit, which has
now netted 280 arrests over
more than a year, including
22 doctors and pharmacists.
“We have people who
have taken an oath to do no
harm who are throwing that
oath out the window,” DEA
Special Agent in Charge
Keith Brown said after the
early morning raids.
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Pilluted” had focused on
the illegal distribution of
oxycodone, hydrocodone
and Xanax by medical
professionals, and does
not target addicts. Agents
arrested 48 people
Wednesday: 22 in Louisiana,
nine each in Alabama and
Arkansas and eight in
Mississippi.
Since January 2014, half
of the overall arrests have
occurred in Arkansas. It
and the other three states
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raids each ranked among
the top 11 states for
hydrocodone prescriptions
in 2014, according to DEA
data.
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State; West fears it
will spawn global
terror web
PANKISI GORGE,
Georgia (AP) — One day
this April, instead of coming
home from school, two
teenagers left their valley
high in the Caucasus, and
went off to war.
In Minneapolis,
Minnesota, a 20-year-old
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make the same hazardous
journey.
From New Zealand, came
a former security guard;
from Canada, a hockey fan
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And there have been
many, many more: between
16,000 and 17,000,
according to one independent
Western estimate, men and
a small number of women
from 90 countries or more
who have streamed to Syria
and Iraq to wage Muslim
holy war for the Islamic
State.
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi,
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appealed to Muslims
throughout the world to
move to lands under its
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to work as administrators,
doctors, judges, engineers
and scholars, and to marry,
put down roots and start
families.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)
— Nebraska lawmakers
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Wednesday to a bill
abolishing the death penalty
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conservative state to do so
since 1973 if the measure
becomes law.
The vote margin in the
unicameral
Legislature
was more than enough to
override a promised veto
from Gov. Pete Ricketts,
a supporter of capital
punishment. Ricketts, a
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