Governors across New England and New York have declared states of emergency, and all cars and trucks -- except emergency vehicles -- must now be off Massachusetts and Connecticut roadways.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee Saturday ordered all non-emergency vehicles off the streets Saturday so snowplows could clear roadways.
Gov. Deval Patrick told nonessential state workers to stay home Friday and ordered all non-emergency vehicles off the road by 4 p.m.
Sri Lanka has been under emergency rule on-and-off for nearly three decades, most recently since the assassination in August 2005 of Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic-Tamil foreign minister.
The IMF encouraged Egypt to apply for emergency short-term financing to stave off collapse of its crisis-stricken economy.
They slashed state unemployment benefits and rejected federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170, 000 laid-off workers.
Tayside Police have praised the public for embracing the new non-emergency phone number, designed to take pressure off the 999 service.
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He owned up to the thefts after a tip-off to the council prompted an emergency audit of the school's finances in October last year.
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Emergency services were alerted to the incident at an "off-piste" skiing area in the Etive Glades on Saturday.
The emergency services were alerted to the incident in an "off-piste" skiing area in the Etive Glades at 13:05 GMT.
Ms. Abdul-Hakeem told an emergency technician that she had taken her eyes off the boy for about 20 seconds, according to the police statement.
The search was hampered, Dr. Grokhovsky said, by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 25-foot-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk was believed to have fallen.
Dr. Grokhovsky said the search was hampered by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 8-meter-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk of the meteor was believed to have fallen.
The alarm set off by the men is known as an EPIRB - an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.
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Investors are not worried about the pedestrian parts of Motorola's business, which include emergency-services radios and hand-held scanners, and which will be hived off into a firm called Motorola Solutions.
The prime minister told MPs the government was exploring the turn-off in a statement made to the House of Commons during an emergency recall of Parliament.
She also asked whether the AWE off-site contingency arrangements, aimed at protecting the public from a radiation emergency, were put into operation.
As temperatures soared to the triple-digits for the 37th consecutive day Sunday, city officials made an emergency decision to shut off the town's water supply.
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Italy's elections close the door on a year of emergency government that was ushered in during the fall of 2011, when investors led a mass sell-off of Italian bonds, threatening the country's solvency.
She also wants more clarity and legal certainty on the emergency funding arrangements, so that in future the banks take some of the burden off taxpayers for any bail-out.
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