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High-school parade to close part of Park Avenue
Sentinel Staff WriterPark Avenue will be closed to traffic tonight from Webster Avenue to Lyman Avenue from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. to make way for the Winter Park High School Annual Parade and Pep Rally at 6 p.m. Side streets also will be closed at the Park Avenue intersections... -
Child caught after 30-foot fall as mom dangles from Port Orange festival ride
Sentinel Staff WriterState inspectors still have not determined why a ride unexpectedly lifted off the ground Saturday night, leaving an Ormond Beach woman clinging to it with one hand while holding onto her young daughter with the other. Sherri Pinkerton, who was getting...Tags: Tampa, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Fires
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Quick Takes
Artist says GOP misses song context The John McCain campaign has sounded echoes of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign gaffe of adopting Bruce Springsteen's antiwar song "Born in the U.S.A." by using the Martina McBride country hit "Independence Day" to...Tags: NBC, Public Holidays, Michael Douglas, Werner Herzog, Tina Fey
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106-year-old woman participates in Caro parade
Lenore Schultz left her native Caro when she was a teenager. On Sunday, at the age of 106, she came back to participate in the Tuscola County Pumpkin Festival parade. Schultz rode in a 1951 blue Packard Caribbean convertible in the annual parade.... -
Fairgoers catch toddler as mother dangles 30 feet in air from central Florida carnival ride
PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) _ Authorities say patrons at a central Florida carnival caught a toddler whose mother was forced to drop her when a ride stranded them 30 feet in the air. Authorities say the "Crazy Bus" ride started to move as passengers were...Tags: Fires
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Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, Nov. 5-9
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) _ The weather is cooling off and that means birds are heading south. One of the best places to watch the migration spectacle is southern tip of Texas for the 15th Annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, scheduled for Nov. 5-9.... -
Fairgoers catch toddler dropped from carnival ride
The Associated PressFairgoers at a central Florida carnival caught a 2-year-old girl whose mother was forced to drop her after they were both stranded 30 feet off the ground on a ride. Paramedics also rescued the woman. No injuries were reported. The "Crazy Bus" kiddie...Tags: Fires
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Mistrial ends case in which San Diego firefighters claimed harassment at gay pride parade
Associated Press WriterSAN DIEGO (AP) _ A mistrial was declared Monday after a jury could not decide whether to award damages to four firefighters who claimed they were sexually harassed after being forced to participate in a gay pride parade last year. The jury deliberated...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Fires, Trials, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Phelps secures rare place in city's heart sports lore
rick.maese@baltsun.comOver the course of 17 races in 1 1/2 weeks, they celebrated Michael Phelps from the privacy of their homes, their excited voices careening off living room walls, waking up neighbors and stopping nearby traffic. But for the most part, the cheers and...Tags: Major League Baseball, Fort McHenry, Denver Nuggets, Multi-Sport Events, Michael Phelps
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Hometown hero
With cascades of shrieks and the pounding of oh-so-many teenage feet, they heralded his coming. At the center of the herd, rolling down York Road, was a National Guard Humvee with a lanky young man waving from its open roof.
And they cheered again last...Tags: Towson University, The Hills, Billy Bush, Fort McHenry, Multi-Sport Events
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Where the sneakers meet the road
Bruce Cleland's 5-year-old daughter had just completed two years of treatment for leukemia when he decided to raise a little money to help others affected by the disease. He asked some friends in New York to train for a marathon with him and collect...Tags: Health Treatments, Marathon, Cancer, Diseases, Breast Cancer
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Baltimore Running Festival is a relative thing for this bunch
Organizers of this weekend's Baltimore Running Festival can't say exactly how many families, spouses, friends and co-workers will be running among the more than 17,000 who have signed up for the eighth annual event.
The pairs and groups are easy to...Tags: Joan Collins, Marathon, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Society, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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