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It's the height of a rude awakening. Consciousness eludes you, and you want to dissolve back into the serenity of sleep and a cool pillow. Just outside the fated Maple Street address, Michael Myers, a fictional character from the ” Halloween” series of slasher films, stands ready for trick-or-treaters.

Firefighters from the Barnwell City Fire Department responded to Super Nails on Jefferson Street, which is just off of the Circle in downtown Barnwell, on Friday, Nov. 8 after a passerby noticed smoke around 4:30 a.m. Firefighters quickly located and extinguished the fire in the back storage room of the nail salon. “What caused it is the big question,” said Fire…

USAble Life, an insurance company located in Little Rock, Ark., violated federal law when it fired an employee for complaining about discrimination related to her pregnancy and her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today. Founded in 2005 by two Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, USAble Life serves BCBS…

Nov. 27– AUSTIN– Ahead of Thanksgiving, Kerran Fowlkes, president of Sunny Day Defensive Driving in El Paso, pondered ways to help information about fatal crashes sink in with students. Signs along Interstate 10 throughout El Paso urge safety as the state works toward eliminating traffic fatalities on Texas roads. Signs along Interstate 10 throughout El Paso…

Nov. 27– GRANGEVILLE– The Idaho County commissioners plan to contact 18 or 19 rural residents who appear to be out of compliance with federal regulations governing flood damage prevention. In a news release, the commissioners said they are required by FEMA to force compliance by charging the property owners as much as $200 a day until compliance is met.

Nov. 27– Elective surgeries at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup are canceled for a two-week period until Dec. 3. Officials with Tacoma- based MultiCare Health System told a News Tribune reporter that “foreign matter” was detected on surgical trays. But Edwards said the hospital decided to go public and self-report to both The Joint Commission, the independent…

Nov. 27– Small non-farm businesses in 34 Texas counties, including Navarro, are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. By law, SBA makes Economic Injury Disaster Loans available when the U.S. Secretary of…

Nov. 27– AAA Texas Offers Tips to Avoid Crashes, Crimes, and Lockouts in Busy Parking Lots This Holiday Season AAA data shows the day before Thanksgiving as a time when some of the highest number of auto claims occur. AAA Texas is warning consumers about the increased hazards in parking lots and reminding shoppers to prevent locking themselves out of vehicles or…

Nov. 27– Once upon a time in the mid-20th Century, when their city saw the pea-soup-thick midnight darkness that enveloped downtown streets at noon as a sign of manly economic health, the recent remarks by Pittsburgh's mayor would have seemed the height of heresy– like rooting for Philly's Eagles to defeat his hometown Steelers on a cool autumn Sunday.

Nov. 27– CEDAR FALLS– A Friday night fire that damaged a rural Cedar Falls home and sent two people to the hospital started in an electrical outlet, according to fire officials. Insurance investigators determined the blaze at 8024 Slap Tail Trail originated in an outlet in a living room and then spread to other parts of the home, said Fire Chief John Bostwick.

—As Amy Witt prepared for the grand opening of her Dallas clothing store, she read up on the demise of thousands of chain stores this past year so she wouldn’ t repeat their mistakes. “Big box retailers are selling 20,000 square feet of, what? So Witt has created a store that aims to feel like a home.

>>RELATED: More high tide flooding is on its way for South Florida. Hurricane Sandy, a massive 2012 cyclone that was designated post-tropical before making landfall Oct. 29 along the coast of southern New Jersey, sent saltwater rushing inland, flooding the New York City subway system, and all of the tunnels into Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel.

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The brisk traffic underscored that the basin, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, remained in an active hurricane period that began in 1995, extracting an immense toll in deaths, property and infrastructure damage, and costs to the U.S. taxpayers. The season ends officially on Saturday, but, “Yeah, it's over,” said Dennis Feltgen, the…

Nov. 27– A major Philadelphia real estate tax break is close to seeing its first changes in the almost 20 years since it became law. City Council is considering changes to the controversial 10- year tax abatement. A flurry of negotiations and lobbying is underway in City Hall to influence legislation that could pass before the end of 2019.