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Graduates in tornado-raked Okla. town vow to stay
Seven tornadoes have swept through their town since they were born, but as new graduates donned caps and gowns to say goodbye to their high schools Saturday, they vowed they wouldn't say goodbye to Moore. "I wouldn't want to be in any other place. It's our roots. Tornadoes are a ...
Butterflies tell UT climatologist about climate
The University of Texas' star climatologist was planning a career in medical research until she met the white rats. "The cutest little white rats," she says with a smile, remembering the creatures she encountered on the first day of vertebrate physiology lab in her premed senior year at UT. She ...
Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and ...
Bicyclist's death highlights safety concerns
It happens at least once a week, without fail, as Aaron Madrid bikes four miles from his office in Purdue Research Park to his West Lafayette home. On Lindberg Road, between Klondike Road and the new U.S. 231 extension, he'll encounter a motorist who will slow down and pull up ...
Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale — in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers — fragments the family says it has ...
Ohio woman with cancer makes it to graduation
A Cleveland woman stricken with late-stage cancer has been able to fulfill one of her last wishes: Stay alive long enough to watch her oldest granddaughter graduate from high school. Barbara Malone was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008 and has been undergoing various treatments ever since. Most recently, the ...
Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town
One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ...
Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools
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 (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...
Girl charged with library bomb threat
A12-year-old girl has been charged with making a bomb threat at a southwest Florida public library. Naples police say a Collier County Library branch was evacuated Wednesday morning after a worker found a note in the book depository that threatened to "blow up" the library. A sheriff's office K-9 searched ...
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Feds pull plug on Ky. uranium plant and 1,000 jobs FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more ...
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