Tough conditions for Day Two of the Billabong SA Championships - Surfline
26 May 2012, 12:54 am
Despite the freezing cold, rain and small, onshore conditions, the Billabong SA Champs soldiered on for another day of competition at Long Beach in Cape Town today. Border surfer and defending Women's Champ Nikita Robb made her intentions clear when she ...

Arizona medical marijuana program considering adding more conditions - AZFamily
25 May 2012, 8:58 pm
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Department of Health Services is considering adding more qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. The department held its first public hearing Friday afternoon on the first group of requests. Currently patients can ...

I-4 Motorists Warned Of Smoky conditions Over Weekend - msnbc.com
25 May 2012, 8:43 pm
WESH.com conditions along Interstate 4 near Walt Disney World will be closely monitored over the holiday weekend after a smoky brush fire prompted authorities close the highway Friday afternoon. The Florida Highway Patrol began closing I-4 about 1:20 p.m ...

Call to improve road conditions - Fiji Times
25 May 2012, 5:16 pm
THE Consumer Council of Fiji has urged relevant authorities to take immediate action on the bad road conditions in a district in Bua which have led to villagers spending more than $40 to hire carriers. The statement came after a bus company withdrew its ...

conditions on Everest too much for Golden climbers to continue - Denver Post
25 May 2012, 4:54 pm
A week after four died on Mount Everest, two climbers from Golden have abandoned their goal to climb the mountain's West Ridge because conditions on the mountain are so dangerous. Charley Mace and Jake Norton were attempting to re-trace the ...

Judge: Maricopa County jail conditions improved - Associated Press
25 May 2012, 3:57 pm
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ended court oversight of food and sanitary conditions at Maricopa County jails after he concluded that deficiencies there have been corrected sufficiently. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake's ruling stems from a ...

Amazon Promises To Improve Working conditions In Warehouses - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 2:31 pm
At Amazon, things are going to cool down a little. Jeff Bezos, CEO of the online retail giant, said at the annual shareholders meeting on Thursday that Amazon would be spending $52 million to retrofit its warehouses with air conditioners.

China adds conditions to approval of Google bid to buy Motorola Mobility - The Guardian
21 May 2012, 4:06 am
Authorities in China have put a surprising condition on their approval of Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) bid to buy the US phone and set-top box maker Motorola Mobility (MMI): that the Android operating system must remain available to all for free ...

Are conditions In Place For A Coal Stock Rally? - Seekingalpha.com
19 May 2012, 11:54 am
Coal stocks have fallen and they can't get up. The week just ended was especially bad. Early last week, Patriot Coal (PCX) alarmed coal investors by announcing that a customer was backing out of a contract for 1 million tons of PCX's lower quality coking coal.

UN food envoy decries 'shocking' conditions in Canada - Calgary Herald
15 May 2012, 6:46 pm
OTTAWA — Canada needs to drop its "self-righteous" attitude about how great a country it is and start dealing with its widespread problem of food insecurity, the United Nations right-to-food envoy says. In a hard-hitting interview this week with ...