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AmeriScan: May 26, 2004

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Deadly Tornados Strike the Midwest

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - States across the Midwest are mopping up from a weekend of devastating tornados and rainstorms that destroyed homes and flooded whole towns. Nineteen confirmed tornadoes hit southern Nebraska Saturday night.
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Polish National Jailed for Caviar Smuggling

MIAMI, Florida, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - The Justice Department announced Monday that Mariusz Chomicz, the president of a caviar company in Poland, pled guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in a caviar smuggling conspiracy. The conspiracy ring used paid couriers to smuggle suitcases filled with caviar into the United States.
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Court Allows Tuscan Garden on Staten Island

NEW YORK, New York, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - A challenge to three garden restoration projects planned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and Department of Cultural Affairs for the Staten Island Botanical Garden located in Snug Harbor was dismissed late Friday by a New York County Supreme Court Judge.
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Sage Grouse Seen as Bar to Western Development

DENVER, Colorado, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - Organizations representing farm and ranching, coal, timber and wood products, small businesses, utilities, hard rock mining, oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, and property rights advocates are urging the governors of 11 states to oppose listing of the Greater sage grouse under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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North Umpqua Hydropower License Challenged in Court

ROSEBURG, Oregon, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - Seven conservation groups Monday sued the federal government for issuing a hydropower license for a hydroelectric project on the North Umpqua River that they claim is "environmentally damaging."
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Utah's Rock Art Wins Temporary Protection

WASHINGTON, DC, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - A federal judge Friday agreed with environmental groups that an energy company must safeguard cultural and wilderness resources when it conducts seismic exploration activities in eastern Utah's Nine Mile Canyon region.
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Seven Cooperative Conservation Projects Funded in Alaska

WASHINGTON, DC, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - Interior Secretary Gale Norton has announced $445,000 in challenge cost-share grants to support seven cooperative conservation projects in Alaska, from improving management of caribou herds to restoring stream habitat for salmon.
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Maryland Rejects $75,000 to Compensate Farmers for Bear Damage

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 26, 2004 (ENS) - Maryland’s first bear hunting season in 50 years is due to start in five months, but The Fund for Animals and The Humane Society of the United States do not want the hunt to start at all. They are offering a program that will compensate farmers for damage done by bears.
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