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Web scraping: Sessions, tools and a discount

By Alena Rehberger | June 11, 2014

Ever wanted to scrape data from the web but didn’t know how? Here’s your chance to learn. We’re offering two sessions on web scraping at the IRE Conference in San Francisco, June 26-29. In addition to that, Helium Scraper has given us some coupon codes for a limited number of IRE members to receive 50…

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Web scraping: Tools, sessions and a discount

By Alena Rehberger | June 11, 2014

Ever wanted to scrape data from the web but didn’t know how? Here’s your chance to learn. We’re offering two sessions on web scraping at the IRE Conference in San Francisco, June 26-29. In addition to that, Helium Scraper has given us some coupon codes for a limited number of IRE members to receive 50…

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Bus companies’ lapses mount, but federal scrutiny lags

By Alena Rehberger | June 10, 2014

One in four of the more than 3,700 commercial motorcoach and passenger van companies regulated by the federal government has never received a full safety evaluation, according to an investigation by The Boston Globe. Nearly half have not been reviewed in more than two years. Buses carry nearly as many people as airlines, but receive…

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IRE Preview: Seven sessions to be proposed, voted on and presented by attendees

By Alena Rehberger | June 10, 2014

How to propose, vote on sessions Thursday (6/26) – Friday (6/27): Propose a panel online Saturday (6/28), 7 a.m. – noon: Vote online for sessions you’d like to attend Saturday, noon – IRE staff announces the winning sessions during the awards luncheon and posts information online Saturday, 4:50-5:50 pm: – Winning sessions take place. Locations for each…

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Despite evidence of danger, some parents still share beds with infants

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

The tragedies put the city on pace for a deadlier-than-usual year for bed-sharing infants. Jackson County, meanwhile, has recorded 100 such deaths since 2004 believed to be related to co-sleeping — grim statistics seldom discussed publicly. The deaths continue to increase nationally despite a campaign by the American Academy of Pediatrics to avoid bed-sharing and…

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BMV leaders knew of overcharges, top deputy says

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

Top officials at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles were told the agency was improperly overcharging Hoosiers millions of dollars, but they secretly kept doing it for at least two years to avoid budget troubles, a former deputy director alleges. The explosive accusation comes in an 88-page deposition taken last week as part of a…

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Perdue campaign hammers Kingston over fundraisers involving felon

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

Congressman Jack Kingston’s Republican U.S. Senate opponent dubbed the lawmaker an out-of-touch Washington insider Sunday after reports showed that major donations to the lawmaker came from companies linked to a felon that the U.S. government has long tried to deport. Read the full story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution here.

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Convicted murderer Jimmy Dac Ho had history of abuse, violence, documents show

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

Before he was handed a badge and a gun as a police officer for Florida Atlantic University, Jimmy Dac Ho was no stranger to trouble in South Florida. Fired from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in 2004 after a violent fight with his wife, Ho spent two years trying to get another job as a police…

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Track flaw went unrepaired

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

Metro-North Engineer Steven Bauer’s testimony is just one part of a wide-ranging and ongoing NTSB investigation of the Bridgeport derailment and subsequent collision with an oncoming train, records reviewed by Hearst Connecticut Media show. Investigators have also produced an animated reconstruction video that offers concise details about the accident. The video concludes the crash was…

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Notorious landlord has another problem to explain

By Alena Rehberger | June 9, 2014

One of Boston’s most notorious landlords is housing international high school students in a building for which he does not have a proper license and whose facade Boston University considered structurally unsound when it sold the property to him in 2006. Anwar N. Faisal, who largely caters to student tenants in Boston and was among…

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