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A large oil tanker broke loose from a pier and struck the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge in New Hampshire, reports CNBC's Brian Sullivan.
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The storm blanketed states from Minnesota to Ohio earlier this week, dumping more than a foot of snow in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and stranding motorists on highways.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb 22- A major winter storm headed northeast into the U.S. Great Lakes on Friday and threatened New England after blanketing states from Minnesota to Ohio with blinding snow, sleet and freezing rain. The storm dumped more than a foot of snow in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and stranding motorists on highways.
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Kansas bore the brunt of the storm, with up to 15 inches of snow in some parts of the state, according to the National Weather Service. A 200- mile stretch of Interstate 70 in central Kansas was closed and strewn with cars stuck in snow.
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NEW YORK, Feb 21- Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it has overhauled an executive pay plan that shareholders rejected last year as overly generous, revising it to tie bonus payments more closely to stock performance and profitability.
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NEW YORK, Feb 21- Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it has overhauled the executive pay plan that shareholders rejected last year as overly generous, revising it to tie bonus payments more closely to stock performance and profitability.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 21- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday that it would provide 25 of the 50 U.S. states with funding to test new ways to lower costs and improve care within the national Medicaid program for the poor.
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Feb 21- From a family bakery to the largest American-owned company in the $30 billion U.S. baking industry, Flowers Foods Inc has risen a long way since it was founded nearly a century ago.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 20- American Indians and native Alaskans had the highest poverty rate in the United States, 27 percent, during the recession and economic recovery, followed by African Americans at 25.8 percent, according to government data released on Wednesday.
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BOSTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 9- A record-breaking blizzard packing hurricane-force winds hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses, shutting down travel and leaving at least five people dead.
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BOSTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 9- A record-breaking blizzard packing hurricane-force winds hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses, shutting down travel and leaving at least four people dead.
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Forecasters warned of more heavy winds and snowfalls on Saturday, particularly near Boston, where up to 30 inches was expected in some areas, as well as in New York, Connecticut and Maine. The storm prompted the governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Maine to declare states of emergency.
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Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, with more than 200,000 reported outages in Massachusetts, more than 100,000 in Rhode Island, and 30,000 in Connecticut, according to local utilities. New York was due to get about a foot in some areas, while heavy snowfall was also expected in Connecticut and Maine.
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BOSTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 9- A record-breaking blizzard packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the northeastern United States on Saturday, causing at least two storm-related deaths, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses and shutting down travel.
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New York was due to get about a foot in some areas, while heavy snowfall was also expected in Connecticut and Maine. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick took the rare step of announcing a ban on most car travel starting Friday afternoon, while Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy closed the state's highways to all but emergency vehicles.
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*Two feet of snow to blanket most of Boston area. BOSTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 8- A blizzard slammed into the northeastern United States on Friday, snarling traffic, disrupting thousands of flights and prompting five governors to declare states of emergency in the face of a fearsome snowstorm.
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The Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Westmed Medical Group will begin testing an application based on Watson's cognitive computing to help diagnose lung cancer and recommend treatment, IBM said.
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BOSTON, Feb 8- The northeastern United States braced on Friday morning for a blizzard that could drop up to three feet of snow through Saturday and bring travel to a halt. Blizzard warnings were in effect from New Jersey through southern Maine, with Boston expected to bear the brunt of the massive storm that could set records.
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BOSTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 8- A blizzard blew into the northeastern United States on Friday, bringing whiteout conditions to some parts of New England and threatening to drop record amounts of snow around Boston.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6- States involved in the developing northeastern U.S. carbon market are expected to announce on Thursday that they will reduce the program's emissions cap as a way to stimulate allowance trading and strengthen its environmental goals, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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CHICAGO, Feb 5- Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, already the most unpopular governor in the nation, has his work cut out for him at his annual "state of the state" speech on Wednesday- and this time he probably won't be relying on a python named "Squeezy."
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