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The city's Sudanese residents have held an annual Feast for the Children for 15 years, celebrating their culture and raising money to build schools in the war-torn region they left behind.
The banquet planned Saturday will be different. It will be the first since January's historic vote in favor of independence for southern Sudan.
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Two weeks ago, this was shaping up to be a showdown between the Beach District's only two unbeaten teams. Then, Ocean Lakes was ordered last week to forfeit six victories for using an ineligible player, giving Bayside a two-game lead. The Virginia High School League will hear the Dolphins' appeal of those suspensions Wednesday.
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FAIRBORN -- Authorities Sunday recovered the body of a 75-year- old man buried beneath a cement wall in a hole that was being excavated when a gas line exploded Saturday, obliterating a duplex at 367-369 Wayne Drive.
The explosion ripped into the homes on either side of the duplex and injured at least five other people, police said.
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Longer school years at nine charter high schools, programs to increase parental involvement at 40 schools, and Saturday academies to offer new learning opportunities to both students and teachers.
These are among the proposals Milwaukee school Superintendent William Andrekopoulos is making for spending almost $100 million in federal economic stimulus money over the next two school years.
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NBC will ease its way out of the gate with live coverage of the 132nd running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday beginning at 4:30 p.m. Post time is about 6:04 p.m., so get back from OTB on time. It's a favorite late Saturday afternoon for me over the years, usually accompanied by sunlight gracing the yard's newly mowed lawn. Throw a steak on the grill, crack open a beverage and you're all set.
They call it the most exciting two minutes in sports, and it's surely the most chaotic when so many hopeful jockeys break from the starting gate in a cavalry charge. For the uninitiated, the still- young horses in the race aren't really accustomed to this distance (a mile and a quarter) and this many horses around them.
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PARKERSBURG - Former Parkersburg Mayor Gene Knotts is being remembered as a man who loved people and his enthusiasm for them helped guide him through years of public service.
Knotts, 80, passed away Saturday at The Willows in Parkersburg, according to officials at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home who are working with the family on finalizing funeral arrangements.
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Visitors to Nativity Catholic Church also might notice how the second-floor hallway has alphabet characters and maps of Japan. On Saturdays, the facility is transformed into a Japanese school for 54 boys and girls.
The school at 3635 Pollack Ave. is a joint effort of Toyota and the University of Southern Indiana.
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Miguel Cotto has returned to the site of his worst night, the image-damaging evening Cotto's critics insist ruined him.
Antonio Margarito made a battered, bloodied Cotto quit 15 months ago at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. As easy as Margarito's hand- wrapping scandal makes it to question whether Cotto's only defeat was a legitimate loss, it is just as understandable to ask whether Cotto could ever be the same as he was before Margarito mauled him.
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Late last month, Santa Claus returned to downtown Lancaster after a 14-year hiatus.
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He sounds as if he regrets the decision more than 10 years after making it.
In 1994, when he was the head coach at Clemson, University of Memphis football coach Tommy West had the opportunity to promote Rick Stockstill, with whom he had worked on the Clemson staff in 1989 and had retained when named Clemson's coach in 1993.