Feds to check animal abuse claims at Utah labs

Federal officials say they'll look into complaints by the animal rights group PETA about the treatment of animals at University of Utah research facilities.

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Long ATP season comes under scrutiny again

Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick complained Tuesday that the ATP season is too long and that tennis players need a proper offseason.

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Palin spars with critics over ethics complaints

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says her political enemies are abusing state law with a flurry of frivolous ethics complaints against her, putting her more than $500,000 in legal debt.

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Alaska board dismisses Palin ethics complaint

Another ethics complaint filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been dismissed.

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Federal judge scolds Chicago police superintendent

Chicago's police superintendent was scolded by a federal judge and compared to one of literature's most famous criminals after initially balking at turning over a list of officers who have faced repeated complaints.

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ACLU criticizes police data in Newark, NJ

The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for an outside auditor to review civilian complaints against the Newark Police Department, which the group said are underreported.

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For some, humor of 'nutty Nutcracker' falls flat

For some ballet lovers, leaping and laughing do not mix.

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Do defense contractors protest too much?

Quit complaining. That's the message from the Pentagon and Congress to defense companies that cry foul when they don't win contracts.

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Report Faults FCC on Complaint Tracking

The Federal Communications Commission processes 95 percent of the citizen complaints it receives but does a poor job of tracking how it resolves them, congressional auditors reported Thursday.

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Rulings on Judge Complaints to Be Public

Federal judges agreed Tuesday to grant the public more access to cases in which judges are disciplined by their colleagues.

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Probes of LAPD Abuse Complaints Faulted

Internal investigators failed to adequately probe almost half of 60 excessive-force complaints brought against police officers, according to an audit of randomly selected cases presented Tuesday to the department's civilian board of directors.

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AP Poll Method, Questions and Results

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the Transportation Security Administration and air travel was conducted December 17-19, 2007, and is based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,004 adults from all states.

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Tips to Ease Airport Security Hassles

The Transportation Security Administration offers these suggestions to ease your air traveling experience this holiday season:

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TSA Draws Travelers' Complaints

Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate patdown. Those complaints and other frustrations make the nation's airport security agency about as popular as the IRS.

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NYC Fast-Food Chains Pull Calorie Info

At least three national fast-food chains have made it harder for New Yorkers to learn the calorie content of their hamburgers, fries and subs. Wendy's, White Castle and Quiznos sandwich shops were among a handful of eateries that yanked nutritional information from some restaurants or their Web sites this week in an attempt to avoid having to post the same info on menus in New York.

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The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States

The great Pledge of Allegiance to the United States has been under fire since it was created. There have been many issues regarding The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States.

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An elementary school in Oregon removed its Christmas tree after complaints about the tree being a religious symbol.

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Reno bills itself as the "Biggest Little City in the World," a place that never sleeps, but residents in ear shot of some of the city's all-night bars are saying, enough already.

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ABC received more than 1,500 complaints about Adam Lambert's sexually-charged performance at the American Music Awards, according to The Associated Press.

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I've been meaning to pull my credit reports. I, like so many others, am concerned about identity theft or uncorrected errors. When I finally got around to checking my reports, I knew to go to www.annualcreditreport.com.

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HOLLISTER, Calif. -- Tired of the verbal abuse their employees are taking from some residents, city leaders in Hollister approved a resolution Monday evening banning bad behavior on city property.

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Back in April, video game rental service GameFly filed a formal complaint against the United States Postal Service for supposedly offering preferential treatment and care to Netflix and Blockbuster parcels, and none to its equally fragile mailers.

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British supermarket chain Waitrose has pulled its ads from Fox News in the UK, where News Corp. division Sky Digital carries the channel.

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Sludge from the wastewater treatment plant in downtown Pensacola is treated, pasteurized and dried into fertilizer pellets. And the pellets are sold to the Zachary Co., which resells them to sod farms, plant nurseries and golf courses.

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Multiple arrests at an apartment complex and the subsequent arrest of a Daytona Beach detective by Holly Hill police the same night have prompted an internal review of the two cases, including the officers' actions, Police Chief Mark Barker said Friday.

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Retired cop cracks down on homestead exemption fraud

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In just one month, nearly 30,000 people filed complaints with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying they were scammed.

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But for Kitchens the most dramatic moment came after the hearings when she approached Dr. Robert Temple, the FDA's director of the Office of Drug Evaluation, who had officiated on the panel.

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Sony's been having to "look into" quite a few things since PS3 Firmware 3.0 launched. First there were complaints about Uncharted: Drake's Fortune crashing, then there was the issue with white Dualshock 3 controllers not working.

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"A male employee keeps using the ladies' room because the men's room is not as tidy."

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came across this story in my daily paper Thursday, and was immediately taken by the title, first of all, but the sheer incompetence demonstrated by the SEC over a number of years, second of all. It is truly staggering.

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A theme park is banning visitors from putting their hands in the air while riding its roller coasters in hot weather following complaints about body odor.

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Complaints about unwanted phone calls from people registered on do-not-call lists are on the rise, and the poor economy is largely to blame, state officials say.

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Memo to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: when much of your customer base consists of reusable-bag-using, wheatgrass-munching "progressive" types, it's probably not such a good idea to publish an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing current health care reform proposals.

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A farmer has been warned to keep his cockerels quiet or pay a £5,000 fine because a new neighbour complained about their crowing.

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Chilli Thrips have taken their toll on plants throughout the peninsula, and the folks at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences County Extension Service in Largo are seeing a rise in complaints.

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At a house across the street from where Ross Pavio lives, a sign pinned to a scarecrow says, "No hookers or crack heads, please!"

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Lights turned red, pictures were snapped and tickets went out. Now those who got violations in Lakeland have their chance to appeal. City attorney Tim McCausland expects defendants to do more than just plead their case Friday morning at 9 am.

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After several court cases over playground noise, the Berlin city government is planning to thwart crotchety complainers with a ban on lawsuits against noise disturbances by children, daily Berliner Morgenpost reported on Tuesday.

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I think some folks in India may have multiple complaints with the government.

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