Posts Tagged ‘Authorities’

China seeks rebel village concessions as new protest flares

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese officials offered concessions on Tuesday to a village that has rebelled against Communist Party authorities to try to get residents to call off a march to government offices, as a new protest flared further up the coast against pollution. Residents of Wukan in south China's Guangdong province have threatened to march on a local government office in protest over ...

Springfield man was killed in blast

Monday, November 14th, 2011
FAIRBORN — The city did not issue any permits for digging at the site of Saturday’s house explosion, which killed a Springfield man and injured five other people.The explosion leveled the duplex at 367-369 Wayne Drive . Authorities suspect a man using a backhoe to dig in the yard struck a natural gas line and sparked the explosion.

Oakland man critically injured in natural gas blast

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
An Oakland man was severely burned in an apparent natural gas explosion that rocked his East Oakland home Monday night, authorities said. Leon Spencer, 61, suffered burns to 80 percent of his body in the blast, which...

Death toll in Hungary’s sludge flood rises to 8

Monday, October 11th, 2010
(AP:DEVECSER, Hungary) Authorities say rescue teams have found the body of an elderly woman who had been missing since Hungary's flood of caustic red sludge began, raising the death toll of the disaster to eight.

Death toll in Hungary’s sludge flood rises to 8

Monday, October 11th, 2010
Authorities say rescue teams have found the body of an elderly woman who had been missing since Hungary's flood of caustic red sludge began, raising the death toll of the disaster to eight.