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LocalTwo weeks after losing its head coach to Army, the Cal Poly athletic department tabbed a former Army offensive coordinator as its next head coach.
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Tempers flared at Cal Poly on Thursday as two opposing groups of students rallied to express positions on the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip. The rally initially announced by Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East was attended by a large contingent from the Cal Poly Israel Alliance organization. That led to the two sides — each with about 40 protesters — immersed in intense arguments.
A Spokane family got a surprise arrival when a moose calf fell through a basement window and into a bedroom. The Spokesman Review reported that the baby moose was apparently foraging in the shallower snow close to the house when it fell into a deep window well on Thursday. As it tried to get out and join its mother and sibling, the moose kicked in the window and ended up trapped in the bedroom.
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Environmentalists are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its finding that air quality in the San Joaquin Valley came in line with federal standards for airborne dust, soot and smoke.
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- U.N. wants to know if war crimes were committed in Gaza
- Will Obama shatter negative stereotypes of black men?
- New jobs numbers suggest economy is in free fall
- Senate approval of Obama's Cabinet won't be slam-dunk
- Budget crisis drives California to close offices twice a month
Barack Obama will be sworn in as America's first African-American president under the tightest security ever, shielded by a new, heavily armored Cadillac limousine, bullet-resistant glass, fighter planes overhead and Secret Service SWAT teams toting automatic weapons.
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Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama's nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is plain that a set of serious fissures need to be bridged if the bill is to be completed within five weeks.
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As of Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at least 4,223 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
- One man killed in single-vehicle wreck near Highway 46
- UPDATE: Cal Poly expected to announce Tim Walsh as next football coach
- Runway at SLO airport shuts down after plane skids to stop
- UPDATE: Still no suspect named in Pismo Beach Golf Course murder case
- Walsh hiring a surprise to Cal Poly football players
