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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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Associated Press Willie McClain holds a sign at a drive-through prayer on Aug. 17 in Highpoint, N.C. Every Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m., volunteers from the Memorial United Methodist Church station themselves at various locations in the church parking lot, inviting motorists to pull in and receive a few words of prayer.
Church offers drive-through prayer
HIGH POINT, N.C. — In a world saturated with the convenience of drive-through outlets, from fast food and banking to prescription pick-ups and mail drop-offs — and even drive-through funeral visita...
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Associated Press A woman leaves a Target store with a filled cart. The new Target shopping cart is made of lightweight recyclable material and with interchangeable plastic parts. Rust isn't a concern, repairs are easy and scanning cart contents is a breeze, store officials say.
New shopping cart designs turning up
You probably give more thought to shopping carts than you might imagine. Pulling one out of the corral, you make a quick assessment of its aisle-worthiness. Shaky steering? Annoying squeak? We’ve a...
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