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With three teams at 6-6 -- and five more at 5-7 -- it's a crowded struggle for the NFC's final playoff spot.

Journalists at the Leicester Mercury could be on strike before Christmas after union members voted for industrial action. They are unhappy at a below inflation pay offer which they claim leaves them behind the going rate.

Dynegy's Danskammer electric generating plant in the Town of Newburgh, across the Hudson River from Chelsea, is the state's fifth-heaviest emitter of mercury.

Despite decades of government attempts to erase it from household use, the poisonous metal mercury remains a threat to the environment and public health, especially to children and women of childbearing age.

QUARTERBACKS KICKERS RUNNING BACK STARS Running back busts RECEIVING STARS RECEIVING BUSTS

The Lions' bread and butter -- winning the turnover battle -- hasn't been there in their four-game losing streak: Game 1 -1 Game 2 -2

Baiduri Bank recently gave away designer watches to three of its customers recently at watch retailer Gold Mercury Sdn Bhd in The Centrepoint, Gadong.

After a day filled with rain, snow, sleet, ice and wind that felled trees and power lines, the Quad-City region now must hunker down for a blast of cold air that is going to roll in today and remain well into the week, the National Weather Service said.

There's an old saying that suggests we shouldn't meet our heroes. They're better kept at a distance, where the warts don't show and the tarnished spots don't dim the luster.

MDOT giveth and MDOT taketh away.

McALLEN — As the mercury creeped toward 90 degrees, Westley Keating willed his legs to keep moving. He had run 25 miles in the last 2½ hours and had the sweat-drenched clothes to prove it.

A high speed chase ends when a fleeing driver crashes into an oncoming car, killing its driver. The Mississippi Highway Patrol reports the crash happened around 10:30 Saturday night at Medger Evers near Ridgeway Street in Jackson.

Good morning! The rain will get out of here today. Snow showers probable on Wednesday. Also, more rain. This could be a week to forget.

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mark Cook.

SAN DIEGO - Police are looking today for the man who arrived uninvited at a Mira Mesa house party and shot a guest at close range, in what was likely a gang-related attack.

A Hickory Grove man was killed after a car wreck in Chester County on Saturday afternoon. Steve Lester McBeth Jr., 25, died in a single-car wreck, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.

Question: I've heard CFL bulbs save money and are a "greener" choice, but don't they have safety problems, too?

JPI has topped out construction of its first two luxury apartment projects in the new ballpark district of Washington, D.C., according to a company report. The Jefferson at Capitol Yards, located at 70 Eye Street, will have 448 apartments in two towers.

Mercury Rising – Whitianga on The Coromandel Peninsula on New Years Eve 2007.

Three Milwaukee-area businessmen are forming an angel investment group that will leverage the wealth and experience of local business veterans to spur economic growth.

Hatha yoga — 8 to 9 a.m. today through Thursday. Mercury Hall, 615 Cardinal Lane. $5 per class. 445-2398, www.mercuryhall.com.

Steve over at PlayNoEvil points out that "anything can that actually affect the integrity of the game or business application should be completely independent of these services to ensure that a breach in 'the other guy's stuff' doesn't affect the security of your business - especially casual applications and services that do not see themselves as having security functionality."

An article by Tim Flannery from The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007

The Consumer Welfare Association (CWA) has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on the manufacture and import of toys made of toxic chemicals which, it says, are "highly dangerous and harmful to children". The PIL will come up for hearing later this week. The CWA, in its petition, mentions several national and international news reports, including two ...

SAN DIEGO, 9:59 a.m. Dec. 2 (SIGNONSANDIEGO): Police are looking Sunday for the man who arrived uninvited at a Mira Mesa house party and shot a guest at close range, in what was likely a gang-related attack.

New Delhi, Dec 2 (UNI) Delhiites today continued to experience relief from the Winter chill with the mercury rising to 12.5 degrees Celsius, four degrees above normal, even as weathermen forecast intensification of chill and foggy conditions from tomorrow.

ISRAEL Militants threaten to use rockets in retaliation Gaza militants threatened Saturday to fire longer-range rockets and target larger Israeli communities, after five Hamas members were killed in an Israeli airstrike early Saturday near the southern town of Khan Younis.

PANTHERS ROSTER OFFENSIVE STARTERS* No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. 89 Steve Smith WR 5-9 185 70 Travelle Wharton LT 6-4 312 68 Mike Wahle LG 6-6 304 75 Justin Hartwig C 6-4 312 73 Jeremy Bridges RG 6-4 69 Jordan Gross RT 6-4 300 87 Jeff King TE 6-3 260 83

KEY DATES Jan. 1, 2008: College football, Rose Bowl, Pasadena Jan. 1: College football, Sugar Bowl, New Orleans Jan.

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PRO BASKETBALL   TIME   TV   RADIO    Miami at Denver   5 p.

GIFT OF READING At-tenTION! Monday is the last day to donate books for needy children. The Mercury News and its Gift of Reading partner - Resource Area For Teaching - need many more books.

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE DATEOPPONENTTIMETV Todayat Seattle 6 FSN Monday Orlando 7:30 FSN Wed.

Announcement Cupertino needs assistant coaches for baseball and track. Call Craig Ellegood at (408) 366-7310.

Girls volleyball CIF state championhsips Saturday at San Jose State Division I Lakewood d.

Just beyond the storefront windows, a steady stream of traffic flows along El Camino Real through Menlo Park.

Lotteries All numbers picked Saturday unless otherwise indicated Super Lotto Plus Estimated jackpot: $9 million.

Once she discovered that her home was once a meth lab, Cindy Wilson fled with her children. Now, four months later, her children still suffer from coughing fits and nosebleeds.

Leila Foster signs Life Among the Pagan, 11:45 a.m., Trinity United Methodist Church, 1024 Lake, Wilmette. Bruce Scivally signs Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway, 2 and 5:45 p.m., Wilmette Theater, 1122 Central, Wilmette.

Today is Sunday, December 2, 2007 TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST): Sun............... 10th degree Sagittarius Moon.............. 21st degree Virgo Mercury........... 2nd deg...

The state is ramping up its efforts to ensure Louisiana residents are safe when they consume the bounty from state bays and bayous.

UPI horoscopes for Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007

People think being a newspaper book section editor is a dream job, but you try toting, sorting and scrutinizing 600 books a week, every...

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007.

The great relief of D. A. Pennebaker’s “65 Revisited” — which pulls together never-released footage shot for his documentary “Don’t Look Back” — is that this time you can hear the songs in their entirety.

An abandoned mine between Calistoga and Middletown is set to be cleaned up to prevent mercury from polluting a creek that drains into Lake Berryessa, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

Ponca City, We Love You writes "The Mercury News reports that a vulnerability in the way Second Life protects a user's money has been identified. Risks for users are reportedly limited because the researchers say the flaw can be quickly patched. The flaw exploits a known problem with Apple's QuickTime - when a virtual character passes by an infected object planted by hackers, the Second Life ...

San Jose Mercury NewsSAN JOSE, Calif. -- Google Tuesday said that it will spend "tens of millions" to resea...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Presidential hopefuls might want to heed the findings of a new statewide poll on California’s absentee voters. The California Field poll shows that almost half of all the ballots cast in California are done so in the days and even weeks before Election Day — and it’s a trend that’s growing, with more than a quarter of voters registered as permanent absentee voters. So, ...

What a week. White House ’08 is hot, hot, hot. Iowa, folks, is 32 sunrises away. •Hillary Clinton’s aura of invincibility? Fading. With Barack Obama looking stronger and holding down first place in Iowa, analysts suddenly are viewing New Hampshire as Clinton’s “firewall.” The thinking: She has to win one of those first two or she’s toast.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint Nextel's board turned down a proposal that would have installed former chairman Tim Donahue as chief executive and brought $5 billion from SK Telecom, a South Korean company. The offer came as the company was trying to replace Gary Forsee, who recently left because of Sprint's faltering financial performance.

Mercury, the planet of talk, organisation and ducking...#8209;and-diving, has just arrived in your skies to help maximise the month's unusual opportunities.

Independent distributor Debmar-Mercury, home of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Family Feud, South Park and The Surreal Life, among others, has a syndicated talk show in development hosted by New York DJ Wendy Williams.

As the early morning chill hits you this winter and you snuggle into your woollens, it s normal to think of comfort food - food that keeps you warm and lifts your spirits. Winter is also the time for social gatherings - barbeque parties, midnight weddings, Christmas feasts and New Year bashes - and the plunging mercury only whets your appetite for more. It s also the time when you could get a ...

Forecasters are calling for a mix of clouds and sun this morning followed by cloudy skies by afternoon and a high of 35. Then it could turn nasty. Tonight the mercury will fall and a wintry mix of precipitation could arrive overnight.

HOUMA, La. -- The state is ramping up its efforts to ensure Louisiana residents are safe when they consume the bounty from state bays and bayous.

The state is ramping up its efforts to ensure Louisiana residents are safe when they consume the bounty from state bays and bayous. At the top of that list is letting residents know which fish are safe to eat and which could be contaminated with mercury, a toxic heavy metal.

'Tis the season to decorate your homes for the holidays and of the second annual home decorating contest. Last year the Oroville Mercury-Register partnered with A.G. Edwards & Sons to give people the opportunity to share the Christmas spirit and win some cash by decorating their homes.

"This car is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It looks soft, but runs hard with the pack"

MADISON TOWNSHIP -- Members of a dive team from Madison Township, Newton Township and Mary Ann Township fire departments recovered a fully submerged Mercury Mountaineer on Friday from a pond off Briarwood Drive.

As if we don't have enough worries in the real world, we now have to worry about pickpockets in the virtual world. The Mercury News has learned that security researchers have found a flaw in the Second Life virtual world that allows them to strip a user's character of its virtual-world money.

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Hot off the Mercury News' college sports blog, the College Hotline . . . Stunning as it seems, there's a chance Cal will get shut out of the postseason - a pretty good chance, in fact.

Today is Saturday, December 1, 2007 TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST): Sun............... 9th degree Sagittarius Moon.............. 9th degree Virgo Mercury........... 30th de...

ARIES (March 20-April 18): Your luck improves now that Mercury’s in Sagittarius. It’s good for games of chance and scoring tickets for sold-out shows. Lasts thru December 20th. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): A confidant you swore to secrecy has been sharing what...

UPI horoscopes for Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007.

'Tis the season to decorate your homes for the holidays and of the second annual home decorating contest. Last year the Oroville Mercury-Register partnered with A.G. Edwards & Sons to give people the opportunity to share the Christmas spirit and win some cash by decorating their homes.

The owner of D'Ella Auto Group may develop a retail complex at the location of its Lincoln-Mercury and Isuzu dealership on Broad Street.