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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Ashley Cassidey writes a blog entry as she watches televison at her parents' house in Brooklyn Park, Minn., on Aug. 31. She has a master's in communications but can't find work in her field of study.
Economy stalls generation
MINNEAPOLIS — Ashley Cassidy has spent most of her career trying to find a way to support herself without her parents’ help. So far, it hasn’t been easy. Cassidy has returned home twice after...
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Associated Press A feral hog eats grass through a fence at Easton View Outfitters in Valley Falls, N.Y. on Aug. 24.
Feral swine destroying crops
FLORENCE, Ala. — It has all the makings of a horror movie — a 300-pound beast with oversized teeth running amok in forests and fields, eating everything it can. Instead, it is a real-life scenar...
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Kids Café offers full plates, open arms
ELIZABETHTOWN — The tables in the fellowship hall of New Hope Community Church were decorated with spring-colored flowers. A sign in the back declared Kids Café’s purpose “Not a hand out but a hand...
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Associated Press Customers walk into the Casper Post Office in Casper, Wyo. As the U.S. Postal Service looks to close post offices to cut costs, some worry that if a small-town post office goes, so will community spirit.
Proposed post office closings threaten community spirit
WEDRON, Ill. — In September 1926, a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh crashed his plane in a field on the outskirts of this Fox River town about 80 miles southwest of Chicago. Eight month...
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Collection shows man’s love of trains
CHARLESTON, Ill. — Memories ride the rails of the HO gauge model train layout in a room of Jerry McRoberts’ Charleston home that was specially built for what has been a hobby of a lifetime. “I’...
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Odd
Man claims Hot Dog Man statue COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Police in Iowa say the case of the Hot Dog Man statue has finally been solved. The Daily Nonpasreil reported (http://bit.ly/r2FM8P) that t...
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One more for good luck
Meet three University of Kentucky fans: Clayton Baker, Kurt Hobbs and Bryan Franklin. Each man has been a UK fan for most of his life, and each has his own way of supporting the team. Though the...
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Associated Press Northwest Middle School students Peyton Horton, 13 (left) and Hayden Elder, 13, watch their cars take off using solar power in Flowood, Miss. on Aug. 12. Northwest Rankin Middle School is not only reducing energy costs with solar power, it's also selling some of the power it generates. The school has used an array of 16 solar panels on three of its portable classrooms since 2009 through a partnership with Central Electric Power Association.
Solar power pays off
BRANDON, Miss. — Northwest Rankin Middle School is not only reducing energy costs with solar power, it’s also selling some of the power it generates. The school has used an array of 16 solar pan...
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Births
McDowell— Wyatt James McDowell, son of Nathan and Jewel (Miller) McDowell of Benton, Aug. 6, Western Baptist Hospital. Grandparents are Wesley and Peggy Smith of Gilbertsville, Jimmy and Eva Miller...
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Pumpkin found hanging in pear tree
GREENFIELD, Iowa — An Iowa couple have discovered an eerie presence in their pear tree, just in time for the approaching Halloween season. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that Phil an...
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