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Memorial Day through 1st grade eyes
Marietta, Ga. -- Saturday morning hundreds of scouts gathered in Marietta in the same way they have for decades-to honor the fallen on Memorial Day weekend. They scattered out over the grounds of the Marietta National Cemetery to place a flag at each of the nearly 18,000 veterans' graves. "It's important to remember that every name here, they had a family too, they had a ...
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Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
ATLANTA -; Four deaths at the Atlanta VA Medical Center mark the latest in a series of problems plaguing Veterans Affairs, prompting outrage from officials and congressional scrutiny of the largest integrated health care system in the ...
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Filmmaker actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to help student athletes in Ohio schools
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch ...
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Thieves steal boat from boy recovering from cancer
MARIETTA, Ga. -- The Cooley family of Marietta had been looking forward to this summer more than any in recent years. It was the first one where their middle son Chase could feel more like a kid again. He'd been fighting a treatable form of Leukemia for several years, and things were finally looking up. "For the first time in three years he was going to be able to really get out ...
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Movie Review
The Ruins [DVD]
The Ruins is a character study wrapped in horror trappings that has too little of the former and just the right amount of the latter. Screenwriter Scott Smith, who adapted his own novel, is attempting to do the roughly same thing that he did with his debut novel A Simple Plan, whic ... ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
Hotel Review
Stamford Grand, Glenelg, Adelaide, Australia
The Stamford Grand is a landmark hotel built on Glenelg Beach, about 11 kilometres from the City of Adelaide. A ...
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