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Russell Matthews, actor
A faulty blackboard sealed Russell Matthew's acting fate. As he took the prop on stage during a skit, it immediately fell apart. "I took a chance to save face and ad-libbed a lament on the funding of our public school system," the Silver Spring...Tags: The Walking Dead (tv program), AMC (tv network), NBC (tv network), Janelle Monae, Apple iPod
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Gart Westerhout, astronomer
Gart Westerhout, an internationally known radio astronomer who established the astronomy department at the University of Maryland, College Park and was scientific director at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, died Sunday of congestive heart...Tags: Radio, Science, Roman Catholicism, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Heart Failure
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State Farm no longer there for Penn State
State Farm Insurance has pulled direct sponsorship of Penn State football for the 2012 season in the wake of the sex abuse scandal at the university, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. The decision by the Bloomington, Ill.-based company was made in the...Tags: Insurance, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), State Farm Insurance, College Sports, Companies and Corporations
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Bits & Pieces: Local gymnasts learn from Russian mentor
When the 2012 London Olympics begin later this week, six local gymnasts will pay particularly close attention to the gymnastics competition. The six — Sophie Bronow, Veronica Cheung, Hannah Miller, Mandie Pierce, Olivia Island and Sami Picciotti,...Tags: Ceremonies, Beam Gymnastics, Culture, Gymnastics, Grand Prix of Baltimore
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1908 Illinois race riot was impetus behind founding of the NAACP
When an African-American was accused of raping a white woman and another of murdering a white locomotive engineer, Springfield, Ill., exploded into a race riot on the evening of Aug. 14, 1908. The mob grew furious when they learned that the two men had...Tags: NAACP, Journalism, Civil Rights, New York City, Lawyers
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Dinah K. Faber
Baltimore Sun reporterDinah K. Faber, a writer, photographer and historian who was known as "the Booth Lady" for her preservation work on Tudor Hall, the Harford County home of the famous Booth family, died Sunday of colon cancer at her Colby, Kan., home. She was 62. The...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Charity, History, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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Marine from Baltimore killed in Iraq
Sun StaffOne of the first U.S. casualties of the Iraqi war was a 29-year-old Marine from Northeast Baltimore who joined the corps out of high school and leaves behind a wife and young son and a grieving family that mourns his loss while questioning the necessity...Tags: Family, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Gaming, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Donovan
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Employees give their time Sat. during Nicor Gas Volunteer Day
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.Ivory Steele has an intellectual disability, has spent much of his life in state institutions and is largely nonverbal. But on Saturday morning, sitting in his wheelchair outside Marcfirst, 1606 Hunt Drive, Normal, he reached out to two day lilies, said...Tags: Habitat for Humanity International, American Red Cross, Nicor Incorporated, Multiple Sclerosis
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BRIEF: Wrong-way driver crashes into police car
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.A LeRoy police officer avoided injury late Friday when a driver of a second vehicle sideswiped his police car while traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate 74 near the LeRoy exit. Neither police officer Brian H. Taylor, 37, of LeRoy, nor the...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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McLean County begins West Nile surveillance
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.As temperatures warm and mosquito activity increases, the McLean County Health Department has begun its annual West Nile virus surveillance efforts. Birds and mosquito pools are tested to assess West Nile risk to humans. Mosquitoes become infected...Tags: West Nile Virus, Medical Procedures and Tests, Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, Headaches
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BIS program graduate an example of UVa's non-traditional students
The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.Sometimes doing it the hard way is the best way. Alex Slawski is graduating from the University of Virginia on Sunday, 14 years after he dropped out of college to learn the ins and outs of business the hard way and just two years after he returned to...Tags: University of Virginia, Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Southwest Airlines Co.
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