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50 TV Channels to Cover Moroccan City Weather Forecast

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:00:24 +0000

More than 100 million viewers can now keep up to date about the weather of the Moroccan tourist resort town of Agadir in the south-west, with 50 channels providing this service as of Friday.

The weather imagery of the Atlantic city, a major Moroccan tourist destination, was launched in partnership with 50 Arab and European audiovisual media, the second experiment of this kind in Africa after that of South Africa.

The service will be provided by a camera fixed by a team of the German channel Earthtv.com on the roof of a hotel, the Moroccan media disclosed.

Tourism investments in Morocco during the next five years will amount to nearly 80 billion dirhams, i.e. 10 billion dollars.

Morocco had beaten its own record in 2008 by welcoming nearly 8 million tourists, representing a 7 percent growth compared to 2007, which earned the country about 58 billion dirhams.

Source African Press Agency

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Former NJ Firefighter Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:01:56 +0000

Matthew Fox, a former Atlantic City, N.J., firefighter, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Newark, N.J., the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced. Fox was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay the IRS tax due in the amount of $110,465 plus interest and penalties as a condition of his supervised release.

Following a jury trial in July 2007, Fox was convicted of five counts of tax evasion for failing to report more than $400,000 in income from 1998 through 2002. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Fox fraudulently avoided reporting cash income he earned as a bouncer and manager at an exotic dance club in Atlantic City. Initially, Fox received cash tips and hourly pay for the time he worked at the dance club as a bouncer. Then, in approximately August 1999, when he became a manager, Fox received wages from the club, and also continued to receive cash tips from the exotic dancers. Fox failed to report all or a substantial amount of income received from the exotic dance club for years 1998 through 2002.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John A. DiCicco commended Special Agents with IRS Criminal Investigation for their work on the case, as well as Tax Division trial attorney Michael P. Ben’Ary who prosecuted the case.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

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Plane Crash Kills Eight in South Minnesota

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:30:41 +0000

At least eight people have been killed in a plane crash near the southern Minnesota town of Owatonna, the Associated Press and local media reported Thursday morning. One person, who had been listed in critical condition as of 11:40 a.m. in the Owatonna hospital has died from injuries sustained in the accident, the Associated Press reported just before 3:00 p.m. that afternoon. At least one person is still missing, according to the Steele County Sheriff’s Office.

Kare11-TV and the Star Tribune report that charter flight 81, a Raytheon BAE 125-800A commercial jet, was trying to land at Owatonna Degner Regional Airport just after 9:30 a.m local time en route from Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The plane was owned by East Coast Jets Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Aviation Research Group told the Star Tribune that East Coast Jets operates 11 aircraft â€” Hawker and Leer jets â€” and employs 21 pilots.

“They have a good safety history,” ARG President Joe Moeggenberg told the Star Tribune, based on federal data. “There were no recent incidents.”

This model of aircraft “has a very good safety record; been around along time,” said Gary Robb, aviation expert and attorney with a Kansas City law firm that represents aviation crash victims.

Gary Robb, an aviation expert and attorney told the Star Tribune that the aircraft “has a very good safety record [and has] been around along time.”

Both WCCO-TV and the Star Tribune report that the time of the crash coincided with a line of storms moving through the area, though what effect, if any the storm had, is under investigation. Witnesses told the Star Tribune that the worst of the storm had gone at the time of the crash and only light wind and rain remained.

Owatonna resident John Billingsly, a retired pilot who worked at the airport for many years, told the Star Tribune, “I saw the plane making its final approach, and it appeared nothing was wrong. We’d just had a lot of wind, but it had calmed down a bit and mostly subsided by that time.”

The plane was a charter for Viracon, an architectural glass fabricator based in Owatonna. The plane’s passengers were Viracon customers from “a couple of different companies” arriving for a convention.

The crash is the deadliest in Minnesota since October 2002, when Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone and seven others died after their chartered twin-engine plane crashed in the woods near Eveleth, in Northern Minnesota, according to the Star Tribune.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent agency responsible for investigation of accidents involving aviation, highway, marine, pipelines and railroads in the w:United States (except aircraft of the armed forces and the intelligence agencies), will be investigating the crash.

The NTSB reports two other fatal accidents since 1962 at Owatonna airport. A crash in 1992 killed one and injured another and a crash in 2004 killed four people.

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