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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections.
WASHINGTON — With the 2010 election year looming, Democrat Barack Obama in the White House and increasing numbers of Asian-American and Pacific Islanders in Congress, many groups, including the NAACP, are working harder in the traditionally Latino-led immigration reform movement.
HAMMOND | As life stories go, luxury repo man Nick Popovich'sJames Bond-esque tale is a good one. Ask the ABC News producers whorecently featured Popovich, of Valparaiso, on " Nightline ," or thereality TV creators who are making a show for the Discovery Channelabout Popovich and his high-end repo firm.
The North Platte Telegraph It's a simple routine to which most Americans don't give much thought.
Since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has gone to great lengths to avoid any appearance of undue influence from her husband. Bill Clinton rarely visits the State Department; he never joins his wife's far-flung official trips. With his headquarters in New York and hers in...
SALEM, W.Va. -- Daniel Staddon, a homeschooler from Harrison County, has never competed in a spelling bee. Hes never competed in a geography bee. But earlier this month he became the first-ever winner of the National Bible Bee - taking home a sizable t...
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TRIPP — One Tripp man accepts he won’t be able to make sweeping changes in the face of the poverty that grips much of the world’s population.
Students gathered in both Eubanks Intermediate and Dawson Middle School cafeterias on Friday afternoon and formed an assembly line to make Christmas bags – yes, in October.
Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement. With the 2010 election year...
COLLIER COUNTY —To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.Deputies charge one of two suspects in North Fort Myers bank robberyA pair of tips in the armed robbery of a North Fort ...
Seldom do football coaches — such as Grant Redhead — smile during games.But with the school’s first-ever playoff victory in hand, the only head coach in South Fort Myers High’s five-year history finally allowed a smile to emerge after his players sprayed him with water in the waning moments of the program’s biggest victory, a 48-21 rout against District 12 champion Barron Collier in a Class 3A ...
photo by Jean Baptiste Mondino, 2009 The Museum of the City Of New York just put out a compendium of the 400 most essential people...
John Destin's college dreams were nearly swallowed in a Florida grocery store.
HAGERSTOWN Franklin Graham has followed in the path of charity carved by his father, the Rev. Billy Graham. The same could be said for Roy Grove of Hagerstown.
The rutted road leads to a place of primitive quarters, suspect water and epidemic illiteracy. What it lacks in electricity, it makes up for in rodents.
