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Associated Press People stop for information at the Napa Valley Welcome Center on Main Street in Napa, Calif., on April 6.
5 free things to do in California’s Napa Valley
NAPA, Calif. — Love the lush and lovely Napa Valley but hate how expensive it can be? You’re not the first. In the late 19th century, writer Robert Louis Stevenson moved his honeymoon to the rustic...
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Associated Press A Martin D-35 guitar played by Elvis Presley sits at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, S.D. The instrument was donated to the museum by Robert Johnson, a guitarist who played in the 1970s with Isaac Hayes and John Entwistle's Ox. Presley smashed the guitar after a string and the shoulder strap broke during a February 1977 show in St. Petersburg, Fla., and it was given that night to a woman in the audience.
Museum obtains Elvis’ guitar
VERMILLION, S.D. — A 16th-century Amati violoncello displayed in the National Music Museum has long been nicknamed “The King,” but the ghost of a legendary rock ‘n’ roller has arrived in South Dako...
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Associated Press Honey-paprika chicken with roasted oranges is shown in a bowl in Concord, N.H. in Dec. 2013.
Big flavor in honey-paprika chicken
Sweet and smoky and spicy are three flavors that work wonderfully together, and this recipe for roasted chicken thighs is a fast, easy and delicious way to make that point. I start by combining a m...
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Associated Press Dr. Rod Block works with an elephant, checking its breathing, at the Meadowbrook Animal Sanctuary and Haven in Perris, Calif. "You have to be very much in tune with the being of the animal you are working with" said Block, who limits his work these days to house calls throughout Southern California, where he works with several veterinarians.
It takes a spine to benefit from chiropractic care
LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago, Dr. Gene Giggleman was a veterinarian who thought chiropractors were quacks. Since then, he says he’s straightened out thousands of dogs and cats, not to mention the...
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Fans travel to attend music festivals
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Karen Pery doesn’t consider herself a jazz fan. Yet for each of the past four years, she’s spent $3,000 and flown nearly 4,000 miles (nearly 6,500 kilometers) roundtrip to atte...
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Quilts made and donated to veterans
DECATUR, Ill.  — Wanda Stickles and the Rock Springs quilters want Central Illinois Honor Flight World War II veterans to keep warm. Their production of 65 lap quilts goes to Honor Flight headqu...
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NJ city seeks to capitalize on its twin landmarks
PATERSON, N.J. — Mention America’s historic landmarks and most people will envision battlefields, statues or beautiful scenery, not a crumbling, graffiti-covered shell of a ball field surrounded by...
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Births
Doom — Chloe Rebecca Doom, daughter of Jason and Jessica Doom of Benton, March 8, 2013, Baptist Health Paducah. Grandparents are David Cornwell and Kelli Cornwell, both of Benton; and Bruce Turner ...
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Quilters want kids to know they are loved
BEATRICE, Neb.  — Extreme Quilters group in Beatrice have paused from sewing for their families to sew for children who have been taken from theirs. “The children have such excitement getting so...
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Nature becomes star in stamping of food
I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter, Grace, disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy. She returned five minutes later with paper, a stamping ink pad ...
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