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Associated Press Kate Scott arranges descriptive signs next to projectile points in the collection she researched at Illinois Wesleyan University on April 12 in Bloomington, Ill.
Mystery shrouds boxes of arrowheads
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.  — Mystery still surrounds three boxes of arrowheads and other projectile points uncovered several years ago in the basement of a building at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloom...
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Civil War quilts became source of comfort for soldiers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.  — Two days after the Confederate States of America formed in the 1860s, Sarah Ann Massie married William Bateman. The newlyweds settled on William’s 100-acre farm in Morgan Count...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Mike Waddell, a member of the bluegrass-gospel sextet Mackville, plays banjo during rehearsal April 17 in Atwood, Ill. Mackville, which takes its title from the name Atwood had before it was Atwood, came to life itself about four years ago.
Bluegrass band evokes fans sense of emotion
ATWOOD, Ill. — It’s not every band that can turn death into a toe-tapping, sing-along number. But the bluegrass-gospel sextet Mackville sees beyond the grave to the “beautiful shore,” where the ...
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Disney’s veteran cruise ship Magic gets revamp
NEW YORK — Disney Cruise Line’s oldest ship, the Magic, is getting a makeover, including the addition of a children’s area themed on Marvel Comics superheroes and a three-story water slide, the com...
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Market holds feast of forgotten foods
PHILADELPHIA — The city’s Reading Terminal Market is celebrating long-lost foods that were formerly Philly staples, from teaberry ice cream to fried oysters with chicken salad. The third biennial F...
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Police detail rescue after ship sinks
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A boat captain and his first mate swam through dangerous waters for nearly a day before they were rescued after a sinking that was also survived by their two U.S. passengers...
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Births
Craig - Luke Matthew Craig, son of David and Amberly (Pope) Craig of Paducah, April 17, 2013, Baptist Health Paducah. Grandparents are David and Gail Pope of Ledbetter and Bill and Ellen Craig of P...
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Tunisia-born baker makes best baguette
PARIS — If you want the best baguette in Paris, go see Ridha Khadher. The 42-year-old baker has been turning out the long, golden rods of bread since he was 15, and has just been awarded the Grand ...
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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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