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Emergency medical cat care at your fingertips

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By Dr. Jessica VogelsangFrom The Daily Cat We've all been there: It's midnight, and your cat is acting strange. Then it vomits. You watch your pet, wondering if you need to bundle it into the carrier and incur a $100 emergency vet bill to be told your cat is probably fine, or that you

4 kids, 2 adults dead in Pa. fire on Mother's Day

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Fire tore through a family's eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house

Grain Elevator Fire Causes Evacuations, School Cancellation And State Of Emergency In Craigmont

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

CRAIGMONT, Idaho - A fire that broke out in a Garbanzo bean elevator was still burning, 16 hours after it first started. The fire broke out around 2:25 Sunday afternoon. It spread to four bean elevators before fire crews were able to contain the fire, but it could have spread to other elevators and

UPDATE: Owners To Rebuild Elevators After Craigmont Fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

UPDATE: CRAIGMONT, Idaho (AP) - The owners of three grain elevators in the small northern Idaho town of Craigmont that were destroyed by fire say they intend to rebuild. The structures were burned to the ground in a blaze that ignited Sunday in a garbanzo bean elevator.

US government files morning-after pill appeal

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription. The legal paperwork asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to

Report: Detroit's finances crumbling; future bleak

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By COREY WILLIAMSAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) - Detroit is broke and faces a bleak future given the precarious financial path it's on, according to a new report out by the city's state-appointed emergency manager. The report was released late Sunday by bankruptcy attorney Kevyn Orr and is

One by one, homes in Calif. subdivision sinking

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 11th

By TRACIE CONEAssociated Press LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March. The cracks soon turned into gaping fractures, and within two weeks their 600-square-foot garage broke

Key events in Pakistan's political history

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 11th

By The Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) - A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history: -Aug. 14, 1947: Pakistan is founded when British rule over the region ends and the Asian subcontinent is partitioned into Islamic Pakistan, divided into East and West, and predominantly Hindu India. -Sept

Spacewalking repair halts station leak - for now

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 11th

By MARCIA DUNNAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The prospects of success grew as the minutes, then hours passed and no

Spacewalking astronauts hunt for big station leak

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 11th

By MARCIA DUNNAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two astronauts took a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to find and, possibly, fix a serious leak at the International Space Station, but they discovered "no smoking guns" as they worked to replace a suspect pump. Flakes of frozen