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Dockworkers at Northwest ports reject pact offer Dec 25th 2012, 03:51 SEATTLE (Reuters) - Dockworkers at four U.S. Pacific Northwest ports moved closer to a possible labor clash with grain shippers on Monday, as parties in a larger, separate dispute at 15 East and Gulf coast ports agreed to mediation ahead of strike deadline set for December 30. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced nearly 3,000 of its members had voted to reject a contract proposal that management called its "last, best and final" offer. ... Judge says Oklahoma can end Planned Parenthood contract Dec 25th 2012, 02:52 OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday rejected Planned Parenthood's bid to stop Oklahoma from ending its contract with the women's health organization to provide food vouchers and counseling to poor mothers in the Tulsa area. U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot of the Western District of Oklahoma ruled that Planned Parenthood failed to prove its contract with the state's department of health was terminated for political reasons related to the group's support of abortion rights. The state contract ends on January 1. ... Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; two police killed elsewhere Dec 25th 2012, 01:53 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman, who spent 17 years in prison for murder, ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said. William Spengler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester suburb, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said. "It was a trap set by Mr. Spengler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference. ... Media files: 2012-12-24T223609Z_2_CBRE8BN18MT00_RTROPTP_2_USA-NEWYORK-SHOOTING.JPG (image/jpeg)

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