A local man is dead and another has been taken into police custody following a bizarre shooting incident at the Root Beer Stand in Corbin late Friday night.

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Little Jon Memorial Park on Deadwood Avenue North in Rapid City is a labor of love for Alvin and Jean Howe. The couple started the park in memory of their 9-year-old grandson Jonathan James Howe, who died in a golf cart accident six years ago on Aug. 1, 2003.

Continue reading " Park keeps memory of grandchild alive (Rapid City Journal) "

Nine years after vanishing from outside her Australian family’s home, Muffy the dog was found alive and well this month in another backyard – 1,200 miles away – officials said Thursday.

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Nearly 12 hours after she was loaded into a horse trailer for the trip from Saratoga Race Course, Rachel Alexandra’s long day started to wind down as she stuck her head out of a stall in Barn 8 on Monmouth Park’s backstretch and began eating hay.

Continue reading " Monmouth abuzz as Rachel Alexandra arrives (MyCentralJersey.com) "

Myers Park’s N.C. 4A state championship soccer team won’t have to find a new coach after all.

Continue reading " Myers Park gets McCarley back (The Charlotte Observer) "

The FCC has opened an inquiry into the rejection of the official Google Voice app from the App Store, which occurred at the same time that the App Store was “cleansed” of any Google Voice-enabled third-party apps.

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The new U.S. general in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that could run into opposition from the White House.

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“Assault in the Ring,” a boxing documentary that will be broadcast on Saturday on HBO, is a powerful and painful tale on many levels.

Continue reading " Punches in the Ring, Effects Far Beyond (New York Times) "

The New York law firm that provided counsel to Hard Rock Park officials in this year’s bankruptcy filings will receive nearly $1 million for its services while hundreds of unsecured creditors from the Myrtle Beach area and around the country will go unpaid, according to court documents.

Continue reading " HRP lawyers will get paid, 3,000 other creditors won’t (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) "

Shoot, when I was a kid, the best I could get away with in terms of something similar to this was “the dog ate my homework.” In this case, a lawsuit has been filed after the well-publicized e-book deletion fiasco that ending up remotely deleting legitimately purchased e-books from users’ Kindles.

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