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Activist fought to advance animal rights
For decades, Virginia Roche tirelessly defended those she found most vulnerable: abused and neglected animals. The New Smyrna Beach woman, who once had been a social worker for mentally and physically abused children in Central Florida, was appointed...Tags: Heart Problems, Korean War (1950-1953), 2012 Democratic National Convention, Hospitals and Clinics, Germany
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Out and About Calendar for April 25-27
THURSDAY, 4.25 • “Anne of Green Gables,” presented by Northern Plains Christian Academy, 7 p.m., Northern Plains Baptist Church, 1604 S. Melgaard Road. • Fallout Art and Music Night, 7 p.m., Red Rooster Coffee House. ...Tags: Arts, Baptist, Human Interest, Music, Vietnam
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Health fair Saturday at civic arena
The American Red Cross of Northeast South Dakota Chapter Health Fair will be from 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Aberdeen Civic Arena. Health information booths will be there with information, screenings and samples. The Aberdeen Police...Tags: Human Interest, Weight
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Free ice cream cone at Carvel on Thursday
Sun SentinelGet a free Carvel ice cream cone on Thursday with a twist to help Hurricane Sandy victims in Coney Island. No coupon is necessary. Stop in at participating shops from 3 to 8 p.m. to get a free junior cone. Make a $2 donation to the American Red Cross to...Tags: Ice Cream, Coney Island, Media Industry, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Official: GM gives $100k to Red Cross for Texas-like emergencies
Autoblog.comFiled under: Etc., GM The General Motors Foundation has provided a $100,000 grant to the American Red Cross to assist with relief efforts in West, Texas. Last Wednesday, the fertilizer plant in the town of 2,800 people caught fire and then exploded, the... -
Teenager credits neighbor for saving him from Hollins Road fire
WDBJ7 Multimedia JournalistA local firefighter is recovering at home after a roof collapsed on him while trying to put out a fire. Roanoke City and County Fire Departments arrived at a townhome complex located off of Hollins Road around 4:15 pm on Tuesday. Neighbors said they...Tags: Fires
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Discarded cigarette butt causes heavy fire damage to Roanoke townhome
An improperly discarded cigarette butt was determined as the cause of a fire that left a Roanoke townhouse heavily damaged, a firefighter injured, and a portion of Hollins road closed to traffic on Tuesday afternoon. According to a news release, the...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Some in Mundelein, Lake Zurich count themselves fortunate in floods
As clean-up efforts from last week's flooding continued in surrounding communities, many Mundelein and Lake Zurich residents called themselves lucky early this week, with officials there saying they escaped the heavy rain relatively unscathed. A...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Business, Courtland
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Broward students impress Obama with bicycle invention
What started out as a science assignment turned into a political science lesson on Monday, as two Northeast High students got President Barack Obama to try out their bicycle-powered invention. Obama "test drove" the project, created by about 30 students...Tags: Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Invention and Innovation, Barack Obama, Students
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Floodwaters recede in some places but cleanup remains grim
In the middle of the flooded Knollwood subdivision in far northwest suburban Fox Lake sits a tiny island of grass on which residents planned to hold a victory party Monday. "If we are having a bonfire tonight, it is because we beat the flood. It didn'...
Tags: Tetanus, Floods, The Salvation Army, U.S. Coast Guard, Natural Disasters
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Md. nonprofits waiting for cuts to AmeriCorps volunteers
When officials in Washington evaluate the consequences of the sequester, Tiara Bland wants them to consider the sixth-grade girls at Mother Seton Academy. Bland, a 22-year-old AmeriCorps member at the Baltimore academy for low-income children, said the...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Habitat for Humanity International, Education
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Nigeria officials disagree on death toll in recent fighting
KANO, Nigeria — Local government officials and a military spokesman in Nigeria agreed that security forces and Islamist militants had battled in recent days in the country's far northeast. But they offered widely varying accounts Monday of how...
Tags: Butterfly Ballots, Television Industry, Wars and Interventions, Goodluck Jonathan, Human Rights
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