Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: My boyfriend, "Matt," and I have been together a little more than four years. We have a very strong relationship and have discussed marriage and children, but we both agree we should wait.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - Brian Billick never came close to duplicating the success he enjoyed early in his career as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, and it finally cost him his job. Billick was fired Monday, less than 24 hours after his team concluded a season of high expectations with a ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - A man had bad luck in his choice of stolen vehicles. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Ernesto Ponce took a pickup from a Chevrolet lot in Roseburg on Friday, but had to switch vehicles when a tire blew.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - Police arrested a neighbor after a woman reported some of her undergarments had been stolen from her house. Charles Michael Clark, 30, has been charged with burglary and is free on $20,000 bond. Sgt. Eric Bruss said the woman had been out of town when she returned home ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - A Florida couple could be having an extra happy new year after finding a rare purple pearl while eating a plate of steamed clams. George and Leslie Brock stopped into Dave's Last Resort & Raw Bar on Friday during a day at the beach. George Brock was about ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - Aides to Benazir Bhutto charge that lax security allowed an assassin to approach within a few yards of her. But authorities insist it was her decision to open a hatch in her bombproof vehicle and chat with supporters that left her vulnerable.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Reuters - From a Greek nunnery turned into a
marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South
African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the
pain off," the world was full of weird news in 2007.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
James Kilpatrick - Every language has its pitfalls, but often it seems that English has more than its share. So many of our words sound alike! So many opportunities arise for phonic error! Let us turn to the homophone file, and together let us weep.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
AP - Local police said it was a typical holiday Grinch tale: A home was broken into on Christmas Eve, and wrapped presents were stolen off a kitchen table.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I find myself in a predicament that I never in a million years would have predicted. I am a 25-year-old man who is married to a beautiful, committed wife. Recently, I was chatting online and met a guy. He was funny and quick-witted.
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