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Suspect in Ohio helped neighbors look for missing
CLEVELAND (AP) — In the years after his friend’s daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old’s photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year …
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Discovery of 3 women recalls past abduction cases
The discovery of three women in a Cleveland home who all had gone missing separately about a decade ago brings to mind cases of abductions elsewhere. A list of some prominent cases: Jaycee Dugard Dugard was abducted in June 1991 on her way to …
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Bryant chosen as Miss Arkansas Preteen
NASHVILLE — Emma Bryant has been chosen as Miss Arkansas Preteen National Teenager. She will compete in the 2013 America’s National Teenager Scholarship Program, a program for gifted girls and women ages 9 to 25, in San Antonio. Bryant, 10, is the daughter of Josh …
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Uncle: Family to claim suspect’s body
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Relatives of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as officials in both Washington and Russia deepened their investigations into him and his ties. …
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Tests link deadly ricin to Obama letter suspect
TUPELO, Miss. — When poison-laced letters were sent to President Barack Obama and two other officials, it didn’t take long to track down a suspect based on a phrase often used by an Elvis impersonator named Kevin Curtis: “I am KC and I approve this …
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Conservation Stewardship applications due May 31
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) will provide nearly $175 million in funding for up to 12.6 million additional acres of enrollment this year. “The Conservation Stewardship Program is different than other …
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USS Boston reunion planned
The USS Boston shipmates, crew members and all U.S. Navy ships named Boston are planning a July reunion of all USS Boston officers, crew, U.S. Marine Corps and flag personnel. The reunion will be held July 11-14 in Albuquerque, N.M. For details, write USS Boston …
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Who’s going to fill his shoes? George Jones, country superstar, dies at 81
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Jones, the hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died. He was 81. Publicist Kirt Webster says Jones died today at Vanderbilt …
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Local, area teams do well in tourney
WEST PLAINS, Mo. — A Batesville team fishing in the Cystic Fibrosis Benefit Bass Tournament on Lake Norfork came close to winning the big prize April 13, but fell just a bit short. Shawn Drake and Tracy Hunter, who fish on the Batesville Bassmasters circuit, …
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Woodstock’s Richie Havens, 72, dies of heart attack
NEW YORK (AP) — Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday, his family said. He was 72. Havens died of a heart attack, the family said it a statement. Further details on his death were not …
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Police: 5 to 15 people killed in Texas explosion
WEST, Texas — Rescue workers are still searching rubble for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion Wednesday evening in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and …
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Franklin woman: Daughter crossed finish line before bombs exploded
FRANKLIN — Virginia Wolford was at the Franklin Community Building wrapping up an afternoon event with the Extension Homemakers Club when her boss called and wanted to know if she had been in contact with her daughter. “Have you heard there is a bombing?” he …
