Tricky Surf finds pay dirt on turf
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On Sept. 3, you could have purchased Tricky Surf for $6,250 -- the claiming price of the race she won at Bay Meadows. Today, she runs in the $100, 000 Work the Crowd Handicap for California-bred fillies and mares at Golden Gate Fields.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -- Officials with the minor league Atlantic City Surf baseball team call it an unfortunate situation. Public address announcer Greg Maiuro and scoreboard operator Marco Cerino have been fired for making jokes about New Jersey Gov.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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The Lower Delaware, site of a recent oil spill, seems as if it has been mistakenly stuck at the end of the pristine Upper Delaware.
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It's been likened to a pasture and a parking lot. The outfield surface at Wrigley Field has been taking hits from opposing players because of its rough patches, small holes, and uneven terrain.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CP) - Evil Plankton is the obvious suspect, but landlubbers are more likely to blame for a rash of thefts of 2.7-metre-tall and 2.7-metre-wide SpongeBob SquarePants inflatables propped on the roofs of Burger King restaurants.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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Just whose waste is fouling the most star-studded stretch of the Southern California coast? Los Angeles County officials intend to find out, and if the evidence leads back to the toilets of some of Hollywood's rich and famous, the sewage could really hit the fan. "This is going to get messy," predicts Mark Pestrella, the public works official assigned to the project.
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A maneuver called 'splash and dash' cost US taxpayers perhaps $30 million last year, but the charges are rising fast.
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By Wendy Victora, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 18--Bill Frick likes to find other people's money.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Giant sinkholes lurked in the distance. Foot-deep puddles the length of football fields hid the hash marks that divide highway lanes.
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New findings suggest that fine clays may be deposited by relatively fast-flowing water.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb.
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An intruder could manipulate a flaw in how the browsers handle image files to see where the user has been surfing.