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Now that's crying
"I cried my eyelashes off," reported talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, as she left Denver's Invesco Field, moments after Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president before an estimated 84,000 people. "I think it's the most powerful...Tags: Ceremonies, Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Abraham Lincoln
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Family bids boy a simple farewell
There was no casket, no bouquets of flowers, no pews filled with people.
Instead, there was a small wooden toybox and pictures of a 15-month-old baby drinking his bottle and playing, and the dozen mourners who came to say good-bye to him.
"I fought hard...Tags: Cults and Sects, Assault, Murder, Death and Dying
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Threatening Storm
New Orleans marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and mourns the dead from the storm as another threatening storm approaches the city. Page A7 SPORTSTags: Ceremonies
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Lake Worth: City to decide on labor center
City commissioners on Tuesday are scheduled to consider a proposal to lease part of the city's shuffleboard courts building to serve as a day-laborer resource center, to reduce the number of laborers soliciting work on the street and to provide social...Tags: Lake Worth
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Oldsters think feds should do more to help
saulfriedman @comcast.netOne could almost hear the sad sigh in the words of Herbert Ris, of Farmingdale, when he replied to my request of a few weeks back that readers tell me how they're making out in these troubled days and what they see in the near future: "I tell my kids I'...Tags: Contracts, George Bush, Health Treatments, Government, Jimmy Carter
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Helper cuts deal in bizarre bank plot
Of The Associated PressA defendant in the bizarre bank robbery plot that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man more than five years ago will plead guilty next week, his defense attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. Kenneth Barnes of Erie...Tags: Ceremonies, Theft, Prisons, Bank Robbery, Metal and Mineral
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With Palin, McCain changes the equation
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersJohn McCain's surprise choice of first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate recasts the fall campaign with a candidate who is virtually unknown on the national stage but makes history as the first woman on a Republican ticket. Palin, a 44-...Tags: Diplomacy, Tony Perkins, Elections, George H.W. Bush, Family
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Obama's acceptance speech reverberates with force of King's historic words
Sentinel ColumnistBea Ettinger has seen much progress in her nine decades. Still, she never imagined she'd see in her lifetime a black man with a real shot at the White House. Nor did Wolf Kahn. As he absorbed Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's acceptance speech...Tags: Ceremonies, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Minority Groups, Elections
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Gustav strengthens to hurricane
Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — On the same day that residents here marked the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, another storm strengthened into a hurricane miles away and threatened to hit the Gulf Coast once again. Forecasters at the National...Tags: Ceremonies, George Bush, National Hurricane Center, Heads of State, Hurricane Gustav
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Flee Gustav or you're on your own, city says
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersWith the latest forecasts predicting that Hurricane Gustav could strike New Orleans as soon as Labor Day, city leaders warned Friday that anyone who failed to evacuate would find no government-provided shelter. Authorities said they planned to use more...Tags: Hurricane Hanna, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tropical Storms, Weather Warnings, Hurricane Gustav
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Obama's speech turns on nation's television viewers
Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history. More people watched Obama speak from...Tags: George Bush, Satellite and Cable Service, Hurricane Gustav, Government, Academy Awards
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Gustav, A Hurricane Again, Nears Caymans, Cuba
McClatchy NewspapersTropical Storm Gustav is Hurricane Gustav again after the system got bigger and intensified Friday as it rolled toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. Jamaican officials confirmed four fatalities in that country, and the death toll continued to mount in...Tags: Hurricane Hanna, Tropical Storms, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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