With BP expected to kill its renegade Gulf oil well next month, Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar assured Gulf Coast residents Thursday that they can count on federal help in recovering from the oil spill to continue for “many, many years.”…

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Federal officials tour Plaquemines coastal refuge

WAYNE COUNTY, MS (WDAM) – A Wayne County man who was missing for five days has been found dead, according to a close family member. Joe Michael Ruffin, 35, went missing Thursday night after leaving Waynesboro for the Gulf Coast.

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Family member: missing Wayne County man dead

The Colombo Grand Mosque has announced that month of Ramazan has commenced with the sighting of the moon this evening. Muslims in Sri Lanka begin their month long fasting at dawn on Thursday (August 12), announced the Grand Mosque in Colombo.

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Month of Ramazan begins

One-year-old twin girls were found dead Thursday evening in their South Side home, officials said. Kimora and Kamari Robeson were found unresponsive by their mother in a room at the home in the 10600 block of South Wentworth.

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1-year-old twin girls found dead at South Side home

OTTAWA The federal Liberal Party was in mourning Thursday morning after learning of the death of Mario Lague, Michael Ignatieff’s big-hearted, friendly director of communications.

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Liberal communications director killed in motorcycle crash