Hera missile fired from Fort Wingate

Army officials are evaluating whether a Patriot missile successfully intercepted a Hera missile launched Thursday from the former Fort Wingate Army Depot near Gallup to White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.

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Principal fired for jumping on students in cafe

A high school principal who admitted jumping atop a pile of students during a cafeteria food fight has been fired. The Upshur County Board of Education voted Tuesday to oust Brenda Wells from Buckhannon-Upshur High School. She'd been suspended since late May.

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Fired worker accused of trashing fast food eatery

Gainesville police are seeking an employee who tore up the fast-food restaurant, damaging cash registers and ruining some meals after he was fired. Sgt. Belva McClinton said a warrant was being prepared Tuesday for a 20-year-old man on criminal mischief charges.

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Managers who deliver bad news are stressed, too

One personnel manager wakes in despair at 4 a.m., worried about the employees in her company. Another boss has to remind himself to eat right and exercise so that he can handle the stress. A third says he has had tears in his eyes for months.

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Personnel dispute sours landmark Wis. dairy store

The manager of the landmark dairy store at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been fired for selling outdated ice cream — but she claims her age, not the ice cream's, is to blame.

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Fla. woman claims 'Merry Christmas' got her fired

A Christian woman claims she was fired from her job because she greeted callers with "Merry Christmas," but the vacation rental company says it's no Scrooge and the woman is just a disgruntled employee.

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Missouri aide raised e-mail concerns before firing

A review of e-mail records by media organizations including The Associated Press supports claims by a former legal counsel to Gov. Matt Blunt that he was fired shortly after cautioning his colleagues that their defense of e-mail deletions ran contrary to state law.

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Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn

Brazilian Stenio Sameshima came to Japan last year with plans to make a bundle of money at the country's humming auto factories. Instead, he's spending a lot of time in line at employment agencies.

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Admiral reprimanded for lying during probe of relationship

A senior Navy officer has received a written reprimand and requested retirement after an investigation concluded that he lied about having an inappropriate relationship while working at the White House in 1990, the Navy said Monday.

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Mo. Gov's Attorneys Subpoena Reporters

An Associated Press reporter and a former writer for The Kansas City Star were subpoenaed Friday by attorneys defending Gov. Matt Blunt against a lawsuit filed by a former staff lawyer.

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Navy Fires Admiral Accused of Lying

The Navy fired a three-star admiral after a Pentagon investigation concluded he'd lied during questioning about whether he had an inappropriate relationship while working at the White House in 1990, officials said Monday.

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Airline: Pilot Fired for Buzzing Airport

A Cathay Pacific Airways pilot was fired after he swooped down and buzzed a Seattle-area airfield without permission while taking delivery of a Boeing 777-300ER passenger jet, the airline said Wednesday.

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Wis. Officer Fired Over High School Game

A sheriff's lieutenant has been fired for using his position and official reports to try to weaken a high school football team before it played his son's squad in a state playoff game.

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Mo. Governor Sued by Fired Attorney

A former attorney for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt sued the governor Wednesday, claiming he was fired and defamed in retaliation for challenging the administration's policy of deleting office e-mails.

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Mo. Attorney Says Gov. Wrongly Fired Him

Just weeks before he was fired, a staff attorney for Republican Gov. Matt Blunt sent a memo challenging the administration's policy of deleting office e-mails, according to the copy of a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

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Wal-Mart Cashier: I Was Fired for Joking

A former Wal-Mart cashier says he was fired for joking on his MySpace page that the average IQ would increase if a bomb were dropped on the company's stores.

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Gun Rentals Are Easy at Firing Ranges

The 35-year-old woman handled her 9 mm Glock with ease. For three straight days, she honed her aim and hit bull's-eye after bull's-eye from the firing line at the Boston Gun Range.

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Judge Rules Agent Can Sue CIA

A fired CIA employee, who collected prewar intelligence that Iraq was not developing weapons of mass destruction, can continue with a lawsuit challenging his dismissal, a federal judge has ruled.

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`Apprentice' Figure Carolyn Kepcher Axed

Carolyn Kepcher, who sat by while her boss Donald Trump dismissed one would-be apprentice after another, has now felt the full force of his iconic phrase: "You're fired."

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Man, Ive had some stupid employers. I'm keeping this list at my disposal.

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Home Depot Firing

The boy that got fired by Home Depot needs to GROW UP! Business is business! I don't want to go shopping and see buttons on every clerk representing what they believe.

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The man who served as the Menominee County Clerk and Register of Deeds died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Menominee County Sheriff Kenny Marks.

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PROMONTORY, UT - NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's Constellation Program.

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During a recent interview, Ken Anderson (formerly WWE star Mr. Kennedy) blamed John Cena and Randy Orton for getting him fired and implied they were using political clout to bury other wrestlers reports The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

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With 520 seconds of shake, rattle and roar on July 29, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center marked the end of an era for testing the space shuttle main engines that have powered the nation's Space Shuttle Program for nearly three decades.

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Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was summarily fired in June amid controversy over his investigation of a politically-connected supporter of President Obama, has filed suit alleging that the firing was "unlawful," "politically driven," "procedurally defective"  …

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As we noted yesterday, the Washington Post has published the documents turned over by the Corporation for National and Community Service to a Senate committee reviewing the White House's firing of AmeriCorps IG.

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Don Rickles is the best! This is the funniest article I've ever read and I'm still laughing, but then I'm a conservative! If the liberal radicals don't laugh it's because they haven't mastered the art of allowing a free nation to be free to laugh at themselves.

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Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in the L.A. area, terminates more than 200 employees after an IRS audit finds that they had provided 'invalid or fraudulent' Social Security numbers.

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Pakistan: Powerful bombblast in Lahore police headquarter

A powerful bomb blast has rocked the city of Lahore. The attack was carried out on Police headquarter which has been almost completely destroyed. Another office of Rescue 15 has also been destroyed.

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A professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who was fired over plagiarism allegations is suing the graduate school for $200 million.

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Canadian Press writer Colin Perkel's April 04, 2009 article on the dismissal of Omar Khadr's lead lawyer, William (Bill) Kuebler, contains a number of defamatory statements, including an aspersion on Kuebler's integrity.

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Omar Khadr's lead lawyer, William (Bill) Kuebler, has been fired for suggesting that his boss, Peter Masciola, head of the Gitmo defence lawyers, has a conflict of interest inimical to the interests of Kuebler's client.

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Whole Foods fired Ralph Reese for taking a tuna fish sandwich. But was it misconduct? It is a question that matters. Anyone fired for misconduct is denied unemployment benefits.

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Have you ever been fired? Did your employer follow these tips and guidelines? Probably not; bosses and managers alike, take notes.

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Have you ever been fired? Did your employer follow these professional tips and guidelines? Probably not - bosses and managers alike, take note.

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Prosecutors are preparing to interview an ex-aide to former White House political adviser Karl Rove in an investigation of politically tinged dismissals of U.S. attorneys.

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DVD teaches autistic children how to recognize emotions like happiness, anger and sadness through the exploits of vehicles including a train, a ferry, and a cable car.

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Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent.

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Tests confirmed the fish is the first vertebrate known to have developed mirrors to focus light into its eyes, the team reports in Current Biology. More Articles

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL (WFLX) - Recent studies show the average person surfs the net at work for one to two hours for personal reasons and not for work duties.

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Excerpt: Call me thickheaded, but even with all the signs -- escalating unemployment, frozen credit, unprecedented numbers of home foreclosures, a stock market in free fall and all the rest of it -- I have to admit I didn't believe we were in a Depression until John and Marlena g …

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Scientists are reporting the remarkable case of a blind man who can see. More Articles

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