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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- All that tweeting and sharing of photos on Facebook could finally have a tangible reward: free music.

MOG, a subscription music service based in Berkeley, Calif., says it is introducing a free music service that will supplement its $5-a-month unlimited streaming plan and $10-a-month unlimited mobile music offering.

Starting immediately, MOG is giving new users a kind of digital gas tank they can use to listen to tracks from its library of 11 million songs.

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) -- It slowly began to dawn on Esther and Bruce Huffman that perhaps they were being filmed.

"Warning," the gray-haired, bespeckled grandmother reads off the screen. "You must stop recording before trying to close cyber link."

Pause. "Maybe this recorded us," says the neatly coiffed, rosy-cheeked man next to her.

"Aw, gee," Esther replies.

(AP)—Arsenic in apple juice! Fed to babies! And it probably came from China! Television's Dr. Mehmet Oz is under fire from the FDA and others for sounding what they say is a false alarm about the dangers of apple juice.

Oz, one of TV's most popular medical experts, said on his Fox show Wednesday that testing by a New Jersey lab had found what he suggested were troubling levels of arsenic in many brands of juice.

The Food and Drug Administration said its own tests show no such thing, even on one of the same juice batches Oz cited.

The Administrator of the Pago Pago Harbor Commercial Complex Falefata Moli Lemana wishes to inform the public and vendors about the enforcement of some of the policies that are in place at the Fagatogo Market place.

The Attorney General's Office, representing the LBJ Medical Center, has denied allegations made against the hospital by four former employees who claim they were forced to resign from their jobs. The government is also asking that the claim, filed with the Administrative Law Judge, be dismissed with prejudice.

(BASED ON PRESS RELEASE) —In a press release issued, Monday, September 12, 2011, Congressman Faleomavaega announced that he has written to His Excellency Francisco Carrion-Mena, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations and Chairman of the Special Committee of 24, also known as the Decolonization Committee.

A direct shipping service is due to start up between Samoa and the northern Cook Islands within two months.

For almost a year residents in far flung northern Cook Islands communities have struggled to ration fuel and basic food supplies in between freight deliveries.

A father of four from the village of Toamua was brutally beaten by drunken men at Vaitele-fou on Friday night. He was found dead in his vehicle. Lemake Afoa, in his late 20s, had returned from a prayer meeting when he came across the men making a lot of noise near his house.

Toamua’s talking chief, Ulu Vaomalo Kini said from what he’s been told, Mr Afoa had asked the men to keep the noise down. They didn’t. He suspects that it was then they turned on him.

AUCKLAND, N. Z.— Matching Samoa's priorities with the interests of funding agencies is an important aspect of the county's plans for emergency preparedness said the Principal Disaster Management Officer, Ms Filomena Nelson during the 3rd Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) held in Auckland New Zealand in early August.