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Guam welcomes American Samoa workers for 6-Month construction training program

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 7:23am | Category:
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Pacific News Center

Guam - Guam is welcoming 30 participants from American Samoa who will be the first workers to benefit from a regional workforce center.

The workers will be the first students at a new regional training center created through the efforts of  the Guam and American Samoan Governments.The aim of the program is to provide the workers with the construction skills they need to get a job.

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at Pacific Daily News


Families of dead Marines share memories

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 7:11am | Category:

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Their hometowns stretched from Connecticut to California. One young man was soon to become a father, another had just gotten engaged. One was a former youth pastor, while another was the son of one.

They were among the seven Marines killed in one of the Corps' deadliest aviation training accidents in years.

As their families grieved and shared memories, crews worked to clean up the accident site on a sprawling desert range near Yuma, Ariz.



Mandela, 93, hospitalized with stomach ailment

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 7:09am | Category:

OHANNESBURG (AP) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday for a test to determine what is behind an undisclosed stomach ailment, and the country's current leader said the much beloved 93-year-old icon was in no danger.

Mandela, a Nobel peace laureate who spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule, has officially retired and last appeared in public in July 2010. He became South Africa's first black president in 1994 and served one five-year term.



A wild online ride hits the digital piracy wall

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 7:01am | Category:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies.

Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotcom finally did it. With an outsized ego and an eye for get-rich schemes, he parlayed his modest computing skills into an empire, becoming the fabulously wealthy computer maverick he had long claimed to be.