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Basketball is in his blood
South Bend TribuneJim Powers can almost feel it in his bones — basketball season is upon us. “I still get very excited when this time of year comes along,” admits Jim, as youthful as you can be at 87. Basketball, after all, was his first love and then...Tags: Aneurysm, Basketball, Sports, Indiana Hoosiers
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Angelina Jolie in talks to direct 'Unbroken' for Universal
Angelina Jolie is in talks to direct her first studio movie, "Unbroken," for Universal Pictures and Walden Media, Universal said Tuesday. Based on the bestselling book by Laura Hillenbrand ("Seabiscuit"), "Unbroken" centers on 1936 Olympian Louis...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Gladiator (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Les Miserables (musical)
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Opinion: Sandy Hook Shows Teachers' Enduring Values
The Hartford CourantI have spent much of this year imploring educators to never again say that we are "just" teachers. Because of the tremendously vital work that educators carry out on a daily basis, I have spoken and written about the need to enhance the cultural...Tags: Teachers, Education, Religion and Belief, Elementary Schools, Berlin
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Athletes Who Use Guns Must Use Their Influence In Wake Of Newtown Massacre
The Hartford CourantSome of the best hunters and anglers in the world are to be found on the rosters of American professional sports teams. Some of the best hunters and anglers in the world are to be found enshrined in Cooperstown, Canton and Springfield. They are...Tags: Suicide, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Congress, Civil and Public Service, Republican Party
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The Victims And Their Stories
Killed in Friday's horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. In the day since the worst massacre at a primary school in the country's history, stories of heroism in the face of death and of young...
Tags: Long Island, Students, Entertainment, Shootings, Colleges and Universities
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UPDATED: Toll now 28 dead, including shooter, in Connecticut school shooting and second site
Associated PressNEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A man killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday inside the elementary school where she taught, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in fear to the sound of gunshots reverberating...Tags: Columbine High School Massacre (1999), Dannel P. Malloy , Motorvehicle Accidents, Barack Obama, Movies
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Greenwood teen earns scouting's highest honor after saving boy, 4, in fire
A Greenwood teenager has achieved the Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor, but he said he was just in the right place during a dangerous time. "It was just the circumstance that I was in and I made the best of the situation," said Ian Kenney....
Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Mitch Daniels, Government, Politics
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Year in Review: City manager Mike Flad leaves, Burbank sees first homicide in 3 years, Rebecca Mieliwocki recognized by Obama
A massive manhunt for a missing FBI agent, the surprise departure of the city’s chief executive, a National Teacher of the Year, tragic suicide and long-sought closure for the family of a murdered Burbank police officer. The year 2012 was full of...
Tags: Lawyers, Suicide, Sports, Motorvehicle Accidents, Entertainment
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2 deaths in California avalanches point to snow dangers
L.A. NOWA Lake Tahoe-area resort ski patrol member for nearly 30 years, Bill Foster would have understood the dangers of avalanches better than most. But even knowing the exact date and time of a planned avalanche didn’t save the 53-year-old’s life...... -
Man uses gun to save tow truck driver's life
As a tow truck driver lay pinned between a car and a metal wire, it was a passerby's quick thinking that saved his life. Jamaryon Middlebrooks was driving along North Emerson on a Sunday night when a frantic person waved him off the side of the road....
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Friedens soldier honored for helping accident victim
Daily American Staff WriterCody Stahl, 23, of Friedens has received the United States Army Achievement Medal for his heroic efforts while stationed at Camp Darby in Livorno, Italy. On Sept. 4 Stahl was off duty when he noticed a car that had traveled off a bridge. Three...Tags: U.S. Army, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Lungs and Airways, Friedens
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...Tags: Kuwait, Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Tampa, Engineering
Nov 18, 2012
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Dec 18, 2012
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Dec 17, 2012
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Dec 15, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012
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Dec 17, 2012
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Dec 29, 2012
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Dec 28, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 7, 2012
|Story| Daily American
Dec 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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