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BILLINGS 鈥?It s likely going to cost you much more to heat your home o
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stanley cup cross Montana, and the price of gas was down as well. All the way down to $4.57 as of close Tuesday. But Montana-Dakota Utilities, Billings main provider with 65,000 customers, says it was much worse not long ago. Somewhere in 2008-09, t
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CHARLESTON, S.C. 鈥?The hallmarks of summer include the shining sun and stifling heat and humidity. It is getting hotter. Absolutely, said Mark Wilbert, a senior policy adviser on resilience for the Mayors Office in Charleston, South Carolina.No one knows heat and humidity quite like the South, and Charleston is a place that is no stranger to hot summers. That s the first answer from many people in the South: it s always hot in Charleston or it always floods in Charleston, you know Wilbert said. But w
yeezy e are beginning to see people say, It s really hot. But just how hot is it getting This summer, the Centers for Disease Control, NOAA, and the National Weather Service will conduct a
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