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Japanese being shipped to Topaz internment camp.

Feds give $700k to preserve Utah internment camp

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 1:40pm

DELTA -- The National Park Service is awarding more than $700,000 to preserve a Utah internment camp where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.

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In this Sept. 22, 1994, photo, U.S. National Parks Director Roger G. Kennedy is seen at the Field Museum in Chicago. Former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy, who staunchly defended his agency from budget cuts, has died at age 85. He had melanoma. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Roger Kennedy, former National Park Service director, dies at 85

Julie Cart Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 10:40pm

One day deep in the administration of George W. Bush — a time of tumult among environmentalists and conservationists — Roger Kennedy found himself shaking his head and sighing. The Endangered Species Act was in the cross hairs of a Republican Congress and his beloved National Park Service, which Kennedy directed from 1993 to 1997, was under assault.

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(Steve Helber/The Associated Press) Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine.

Puzzled East Coasters: An earthquake? No way

Bob Lewis, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 6:52am

MINERAL, Va. — For a few minutes from Georgia to Maine, the question rang out: What was that? The answer — a rare East Coast earthquake, magnitude 5.8 — was far down on the list for most not used to the earth shaking beneath them.

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