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FDA is failing to meet its food-safety inspection audit goals
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The Food and Drug Administration is failing to meet its goals for auditing food-safety inspections that states do on its behalf, FDA data...
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Most businesses in Mexico reopened Wednesday after being closed for five days because of the swine flu outbreak, but they faced a complex...
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People worldwide are still getting sick with the new H1N1 flu virus, but health officials are now looking ahead to the next big question:...

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The recession has a stranglehold on much of southwest Florida, but billionaire Thomas Monaghan's vision for the Roman Catholic school Ave...
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Kawaiahao Church was cautioned more than four years ago that construction on its $17.5 million multipurpose center could unearth human...
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President Obama will ask Congress to temporarily extend the school voucher program in the District of Columbia until students now attending...
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Snakes headline the Rattlesnake Derby festival that brings an estimated 35,000 visitors each year to Mangum, Okla., to jolt the economy.
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He may have broken the law, but a Nebraska inmate still can't change his name to "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir."