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The Ames Tribune - 1 hour 20 minutes ago
Boy scouts Troop 196 to host breakfast Boy Scout Troop 196 will hold its 41st-annual Pancake Day from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Elks Lodge, 522 Douglas Ave., across the street from Ames Public Library. Tickets are $6 and are available at the door.
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The Evening Sun - 1 hour 21 minutes ago
State police at Gettysburg are investigating an incident of indecent assault against a 14-year-old Gettysburg-area boy at Wal-Mart. The assault allegedly occurred in the bathroom of the Wal-Mart at 1270 York Road, Straban Township, around 10:20 a.m. Thursday.
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Dallas County News - 1 hour 23 minutes ago
Bob Eschliman, Editor Two separate votes with regard to homosexuality taken in mid-August at the biennial Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Churchwide Assembly held in Minneapolis have shaken the congregation to its core.
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Shrewsbury Chronicle - 1 hour 24 minutes ago
Oak Middle School students and teachers abandoned their desks, chairs and materials in an effort to raise money and awareness for schools in Uganda and also learned all they have to be grateful for.
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INO News - Fri Dec 4, 7:26 am ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Around 40 Brazilian sugar and ethanol mills plan to extend harvesting of their 2009-10 sugarcane crop despite the risk of lower yields and damage to the crop, according to industry watchers.
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The Sentinel - Fri Dec 4, 6:07 am ET
Three representatives from the Cumberland Valley School District will soon depart for China for an educational trip through the Chinese Bridge for American Schools.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 6:03 am ET
Numerous election-related crimes by senior Ugandan government officials have gone unpunished and the country must urgently reform its election laws ahead of 2011 polls, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 5:49 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves . The clay-and- metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa , where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people.
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Strategy Page - Fri Dec 4, 5:17 am ET
December 4, 2009: The Nuba Mountains lie in central Sudan, which puts the territory along a fault line between the national government (north Sudan) and the Government of South Sudan (GOSS, south Sudan).
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Livingston County Daily Press & Argus - Fri Dec 4, 5:07 am ET
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, is requesting an investigation into recent allegations of tampered global-warming information from a British university's climate center.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel - Fri Dec 4, 4:45 am ET
WATSONVILLE -- Two worlds collided Friday as the Matsiko Children's Choir from Uganda performed at Pajaro Middle School.
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The Advocate - Fri Dec 4, 4:07 am ET
Rachel Maddow is speaking out against the proposed Ugandan law that would call for the death of gays and lesbians in many scenarios if passed -- and naming the three Americans credited with inspiring the bill.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 3:18 am ET
Somali Islamist Shebab rebels Friday denied in a statement any involvement in a suicide bombing that left some 19 people, including three ministers, dead at a medical student graduation ceremony.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 1:52 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda , where commercially viable crude deposits have been found, will send oil workers to Cuba for training, New Vision reported, citing a statement from the president’s office.
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Online Journal - Fri Dec 4, 1:24 am ET
( WMR ) -- The admission of Rwanda to the Commonwealth of Nations, headed up by Queen Elizabeth II, caps off a campaign engineered by the intelligence services of Britain, the United States, and Israel to transform Rwanda from a Francophone country with close ties to France into an English-speaking country with close links to Washington, London, and Jerusalem.