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GOP group mines data from office of Amy Klobuchar
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Filing what one Hennepin County records offical called "the most
sweeping
requests I've ever seen," officials of the committee already have
obtained
700 pages ...
<http://www.startribune.com/587/story/636946.html>
New archives building preserves county's past
Daily News Journal (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
... of the county.". County records were formerly kept in various
locations
of the County Courthouse, including the basement. The new ...
<http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060826/NEWS01/6
08260308/1002>
Daily News Journal, Sat, 26 Aug 2006 3:42 AM PDT
New archives building preserves county's past
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060826/NEWS01/608260308
Efforts to secure a place to preserve Rutherford County's historic
documents have taken a long time, but those efforts are now history
themselves with the opening of the new Rutherford County Archives
building.
RedNova, Sat, 26 Aug 2006 8:14 AM PDT
Sisters Copied State Farm Files: Insurer Underpaid on Purpose, They
Believe
<<http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/632894/sisters_copied_state_farm_f
iles_insurer_underpaid_on_purpose_they/index.html?source=r_science>>
By Anita Lee, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Aug. 26--Two sisters who
handled Hurricane Katrina claims for State Farm have turned over
records to federal and state investigators because they say the company
purposely underpaid or denied coverage for wind damage.
Sisters copied State Farm files
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... They spent an entire weekend printing out computer records from
State
Farm's system. The task was so large they recruited three friends to
help.
...
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/
long_beach/15366899.htm>
Kansas City Star, Sat, 26 Aug 2006 0:13 AM PDT
Pairing may preserve history
<<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15364633.htm?source
=rss&channel=kansascity_local>>
The leader of Kansas City’s library system wants to explore opening a
branch in the proposed home for the Black Archives of Mid-America in
the 18th and Vine district.
The rise of document destruction
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... The document destruction service industry has been growing annually
at about 25 percent to 30 percent the past six years, according to
Robert
Johnson ...
<http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/business/15368123.htm>
Letters from 13th century surface
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Milwaukee: A collection of letters written by popes and kings some 700
years ago will be returned to Poland's national archives after a man
found
them among ...
<http://www.gulfnews.com/world/U.S.A/10062805.html>
State Farm Accused of Cheating Katrina Customers
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
... adjusters say that the insurance company brought in a shredding
truck
to destroy documents; however, State Farm maintains that shredding
documents
is standard ...
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/08/state_farm_accu.htm
l>
Dominion workers' data stolen
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... a thief took a laptop and external hard drive containing the records
of 26.5 ... workers to review the information on their computers and to
delete any unneeded ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RT
D_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190211258>
Moon-mission tapes hope crashes to Earth
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Peter Clifton fielding calls about the archival footage of the moon
landing
found in a vault at Lane Cove. HOPES an Australian filmmaker ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/moonmission-tapes-hope-crashes-to-ea
rth/2006/08/26/1156012790061.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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