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Tuesday, October 02, 2012  Hurricane names are the often topic of discussion during the summer months in the South, but this year winter storm names may raise a few eyebrows.

Saturday, June 30, 2012  NY school bus monitor 'fine' with bully punishment; wants to meet boys

Friday, June 22, 2012  Web video of New York bullying stirs passion, anger; site raises $440,000-plus for woman who was target

Tuesday, November 02, 2010  Suspicious package found at German chancellor's office after wave of mail bombs in Greece

Wednesday, June 23, 2010  Striking port workers are preventing hundreds of passengers from boarding ferries in Greece's main port of Piraeus, despite a court ruling declaring their strike illegal.

Thursday, June 17, 2010  Public transport in Athens has ground to a standstill as workers walk off the job for five hours to protest social security reforms that are part of the government's efforts to pull Greece out of its debt crisis.

Friday, June 04, 2010  Stocks tumbled Friday after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis.

Thursday, May 27, 2010  Stocks had another turnaround Thursday and rocketed higher after China reassured investors it doesn't plan to sell the European debt it holds.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010  A drop in the euro set off a late-day slide in stocks Wednesday and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its first close below 10,000 in nearly four months.

Thursday, May 20, 2010  Stocks plunged again Thursday as more investors woke up to the possibility that economic problems such as Europe's debt crisis might spread around the world and stop the growing recovery in the U.S.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010  Investors uneasy about the news coming out of Europe Tuesday went back to selling stocks sharply lower. The falling euro and news that German regulators plan to limit some kinds of short selling fed the drop.

Monday, May 10, 2010  UPDATED 3:55 p.m. CDT. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 405 points to its biggest advance since March 2009. Broader U.S. indexes outpaced the Dow's 3.9 percent rise. Gains in several European markets topped 9 percent.

Friday, May 07, 2010  The Dow Jones industrial average was down about 150 points in early afternoon trading, having been down as much as nearly 280 points earlier.

Friday, May 07, 2010  The Obama administration is stressing that it supports efforts to provide emergency loans to Greece, while U.S. market regulators have announced an investigation into unusual trading activity in a volatile day on Wall Street.

Thursday, May 06, 2010  UPDATE: Officials looking into whether a techinical glitch led to Dow plunging nearly 1,000 points within minutes before recovering to close down 347.