Burlington Iowa is facing serious flooding if the levees fail as the Mississippi keeps on rising. The whole of the mid-west is of course always vulnerable to flooding but its curious how so much more money appears to be forth coming from Washington for the mid-West than it was for Cyclone Kartina victims in New Orleans: maybe

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Wow our little town is making the big leagues by our standards. The last time we got this much news coverage was when the town was under 10 feet of water. Its amazing how a few concerned citizens can get the media involved in hometown issues. If you live in a small town or little community you better think twice before doing

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With the announced spin off of the GE lighting, appliances and industrial systems businesses will there still be GE appliances? The proposed deal will create a new company from the above divisions but will they still use GE on their products. Are the days of buying one of America's oldest brands of household appliances be no

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Hillary Clinton gave her speech today at the building museum in Washington. Her campaign is suspended and she's endorsing Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Having Clinton campaining for Obama could help the campaign even more plus it has the added benefit of not having Clinton campaigning against him
Some questions

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On the Costa del Sol as elsewhere in Spain, the Holy Week, or semana santa as it is known is celebrated from Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday with street processions. These processions are solemn religious rituals combined with both drab and colourful costumes of the marchers and other groups associated with it. On the Costa Del

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You would think a young girl with cancer would be at least be someone that others would want to help overcome the ordeal of undergoing Chemotherapy and surgery. Well, it seems to be the opposite in the case of Leanna Elizalde who as not allowed make up exams by some of her teachers when she underwent therapy. It is sad to hear

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A car smashes into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 14 others.

According to Police investigators, Juan Campos, 28, was apperently drunk and fell asleep when his car jumped over the curb and crashed into the race.

He was immediately attained by local authorities and was charg

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National vault champion Alicia Sacramone will be competing in the Bank of America Visa championship next week before the Olympic trials. Alicia Sacramone was just short of the 2004 Olympics but this year is her chance to take home gold. And then retire at the ripe old age of twenty and focus on school and her career. Sacramone

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Shauntel Mayo and Jamie Pittman are the two responsible for organizing a child abuse ring in Mineola Texas near Dallas. They got life in prison for drugging children and training them to perform sexual acts in front of an audience of up to 100 people. The town of Mineola Texas, has about 5,000 and 30 churches. It is sad to hear

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I was fortunate enough to get a birds eye view (pun intended) of the construction of an Orioles nest. The odd thing about this nest was the placement of it. It was precariously perched on the outermost limb of a tree that was thrashing about in the wind and was overhanging a precipitous drop to the lake below. The literature sa

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Another tragic crane collapse has left 4 people dead and many more injured. This time the crane collapsed in Houston Texas at an oil refinery. The accident is under investigation and sources say that they don't know what would have caused the crane to collapse to the ground.

There has been a recent rash of crane collapses

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After a forty for year career as a journalist and head of a major newspaper, The Washington Post, Leonard Downie decides to retire. Well know for sticking to his guns, even ignoring a request from President Bush, the Ohio native is calling it a day. He even went so far as to publish the F word in a Major daily. The job is vacan

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One of the worlds great comedianes died over the weekend. She started on the popular Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman show as Mary's mother. Originally from Columbus, Ohio where her father ran a small cigar factory, she moved to New York and eventually broke into Broadway. In recent years she had been starring in Nunsense and ha

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All surveys out has record gas prices at $4.00 a gallon. Will it ever end, I think not until we change presidents and the economy gets better.

So is there any truth to the stock piling of gas and why is congress not doing something if someone is .. what is causing these high prices. Regular Americans out here can’t afford it

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Keith Kennedy ,autistic man who disappeared a week ago from a camp for the disabled and who relies on medication after a kidney transplant was found alive in the woods. It is a happy ending to a long search for this Autistic man.

He was flown to the University of Minnesota hospital in the Twin Cities. He lives in Shoreview,

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