Archive for October 4th, 2009

Residents from several remote canyon areas and a portion of Wrightwood were under mandatory evacuation as of now because of the expanding Wrightwood fire. A fire in the San Gabriel Mountains has burned 3,500 acres, destroyed at least three houses and threatened hundreds more homes, according to LA Times. The Sheep fire is roughly burning between...
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Shoichi Nakagawa is dead. The former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa has died today in a bedroom in his house in Tokyo. Kyodo News Agency reported no external injuries were found on his body, while national broadcaster NHK said a will has not been found. The furor surrounding Nakagawa’s resignation was a major embarrassment to...
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