Victoria’s founder had help from 9 friends (The Victoria Advocate)
Having not lived in Texas for more than 40 years, coming back to Victoria is an emotional experience for Viola de Leon Teeter. A direct descendant of the city’s founder, Martin de Leon, Teeter had heard a lot of stories about her ancestors from the time she was a little girl.
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Nelson Shares ‘A Tale Out Of Luck’ (Bristol Herald Courier)
“A Tale Out of Luck” by Willie Nelson (with Mike Blakely), 2008, Center Street Publishing, $21.99/ $23.99 Canada, 256 pages: Let’s say someone wronged you. They cut you off in traffic. Stole from you. Backed into your car and didn’t leave a note. Hacked into your computer and left a virus. Things like that make you mad, and you probably plot all kinds of revenge ranging from mild to murder. ...
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Suspect in Wok N Roll shooting, robbery arrested (The Florida Times-Union)
A Crime Stopper tip led to the arrest of a suspect who the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office named Monday in a recent shooting and robbery at a San Jose Boulevard Wok N Roll restaurant. Copeland The restaurant was robbed about 9 p.m. Thursday and one person was shot. From the ...
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Illegal Ways to Avoid the Border Wait (San Diego Reader)
They’re still building roads out on Otay Mesa, about three miles north of the international border. The hot tar takes longer to set in the incredible heat. The smell hangs thick over the brown hillsides by the Corrections Corporation of America prison.
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Angelina Jolie returns to the red carpet; Miley Cyrus celebrates her Sweet 16 at Disneyland; injured Misty May Treanor ... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Angelina Jolie returns to the red carpet; Miley Cyrus celebrates her Sweet 16 at Disneyland; injured Misty May Treanor out of 'Dancing'?
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What football game? (Louisville Courier-Journal)
It is every little girl's dream, says Lauren Martin: to dance at halftime during the St. Xavier-Trinity football game at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Her coach, Leslie Storey Hibdon, admits to butterflies as well: "It's a huge event."
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World Briefs (Times of Malta)
A girl plays as she is surrounded by Muslims performing Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in Jakarta yesterday. Millions of people gathered at the mosques around Indonesia provinces to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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Bellevue 3-year-old missing since July 26 found in California (Southwest Iowa News)
No one had any reason to suspect there was anything unusual about the little girl with the beautiful brown curls, big blue eyes and bright smile. Until "she'' urinated standing up.
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Palin's hometown fans cheer her on in vice presidential debate (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
WASILLA -- Sarah Palin fans came out in droves to cheer the hometown vice presidential candidate in Thursday's debate, but supporters of Alaska's Republican governor got shouted down at one Democratic rally.
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Artists Are the Worst People (San Diego Reader)
“He’s restored that villa to a fare-thee-well. That’s the trouble with Americans; all that money and no taste.” This story begins with an ending: an estate sale in a Hillcrest apartment, scanning the rooms of the deceased, picking through what was left behind.
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