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Innovation is key in child-support efforts
Minnesota counties are leaders in payment collection.
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By KENNETH L . WOODWARD
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Good and Bad News About Iran
There is a lot of good news in the latest intelligence assessment about Iran. Tehran, we are now told, halted its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, which means that President Bush has absolu...
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georgecloo_soul_14942146_600.jpg The Dish Rag by Elizabeth Snead
Have the paparazzi become a dangerous pack of celebrity bounty hunters?
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bless.jpg God bless our heroes
My generation, a lively bunch best known as the baby boomers, grew-up in the shadow of some remarkable men and women. The veterans of World War II, like my dad Ray Perry, withstood the Great Depre...
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A Thanksgiving appeal for our wounded vets
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“APPEAL FOR Wounded Men,” proclaimed the New York Times headline. “An appeal to citizens to open their homes on Thanksgiving Day to the 15,000 wounded soldiers in the city was sent out yesterday…. ...
Comanche has a windmill man
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“They’re the sentinels of the plains, they called them. Lot of people used windmills for landmarks, for navigation, for travel. They stuck up above everything, so they could see them a long ways of...
Remembering school days
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FEW THINGS STIR the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our schools decades ago.
Remembering school days
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FEW THINGS STIR the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our schools decades ago.
Remembering school days
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FEW THINGS STIR the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our schools decades ago. Most of us remember with clarity the children we knew as classmates and the teachers who taught us. And ...
Editorial: Small steps may ease holiday air travel woes
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But don't expect significant improvement just yet.
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Waves from Tropical Storm Hanna crash onto the beach in Nags Head, N.C., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna is forecast to make landfall somewhere along the Carolina coast early Saturday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna picked up speed Friday as it cruised toward the Carolinas, promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people.


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AP - A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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Judge David Svaren listens as Isaac Zamora appears in Skagit County District Court Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, in Mount Vernon, Wash.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - "I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.


Fri Sep 05 17:07:31 -0700 2008

Eric McLean, left, and his attorney Bruce Poston listen during jury selection Wednesday morning, Sept. 3, 2008, in Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz's courtroom in Knoxville,Tenn., in the first-degree murder trial of Eric McLean. McLean is charged with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell outside the McLean home on March 10, 2007. McLean suspected Powell was having an affair with his wife, Erin, who taught at West High School, Powell's school. (AP Photo/Michael Patrick, Pool)AP - A prosecutor described a schoolteacher's husband as a jealous, calculating killer as trial opened Friday on charges he murdered his wife's teenage lover. But a defense lawyer told the jury that the defendant was a victim himself of a spouse who flaunted her infidelity.


Fri Sep 05 16:10:19 -0700 2008