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Details of Wild Police Pursuit Through Five Towns

2015-06-28 00:17:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The chase went through several Connecticut towns Tuesday and involved both I-95 and Route 15 before ending in a crash. The incident started after concerned citizens called State Police to report an erratic driver on I-95 southbound near exit 18 in Westport, according to state police.

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Mining towns worry frac sand gifts will dry up with oil price slump

2015-06-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnergyWire: Since the arrival of a mine that supplies sand to hydraulic fracturing sites in distant shale fields, this tiny township has gained a new dump, recycling center, snowplow and salt shed. Plans for a community garden are underway in a neighborhood across the street from the plant. Perched atop a pair of railroad underpasses, Unimin Corp.'s Tunnel City silica extraction center last year began sending carloads of fine, white sand to energy producers in Pennsylvania, North Dakota and Texas. Under the...

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Swaths of towns say Verizon has left them with inferior phone and Internet service.

2015-05-31 14:38:11| IT Services - Topix.net

With the rollout of FiOS nearing an end, the working-class residents of Laurel Springs, Somerdale, and Lindenwold wonder whether they will ever get to enjoy the latest Internet and TV products of Verizon Communications Inc. So far, Verizon has wired Cherry Hill and Haddonfield - more affluent communities - and county seat Camden for fiber-based Internet and TV. But here, on a tattered section of the White Horse Pike, the boroughs are conspicuous doughnut holes in the march of technological progress - what some call "digitally redlined" - living with aging copper lines that offer yesterday's DSL and 1980s-era phone services.

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