Carson's Hometown Turns Out for Memorial
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The hometown of former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson turned out Sunday for the only public memorial to be held for the man who accompanied millions to bed every night for 30 years.
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MTV News is reporting that a small memorial started by a handful of fans blossomed into an outpouring of grief and celebration Thursday, less than 24 hours after the shocking slayings at the Alrosa Villa club where PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist &quot;Dimebag
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Maceo Snipes served in the Pacific during World War II and returned home to make history: He became the first black person to vote in Taylor County.
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Years of neglect left the once-thriving business district of this rural community looking just like its name sounds.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 11--MAIZE -- Mary Belton lives in a neighborhood built around a lake that was once a sandpit.
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By Taylor Bright, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Let's begin this week with some brick and mortar news out of Lancaster County. A 22,000- square-foot customer service center for Kennametal is being built in Indian Land.
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This area is footballâs mecca â-he Hall of Fame is about an hour away, in Canton â - the fans here have been deprived of good football for so long.
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By Sarah Jimenez, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 2--PIXLEY -- It looked like a typical graduation ceremony.   Proud families held balloons and flowers as loved ones dressed in their best clothes sat on the stage of the Pixley Memorial Building.
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 8--George Becker is returning home.   After decades of leadership in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C., the late steel union leader will be laid to rest Friday in his hometown, Granite City.
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Hundreds of friends and family  attended a memorial for Christopher Reeve in New York on  Friday, paying tribute to the "Superman" actor who died this  month after spending the last decade of his life paralyzed.
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At an emotional service in the shadow of the Gowanus Expressway, the city&#39;s Albanian immigrant community paid tribute to singer Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, the musician who died of carbon monoxide poisoning last week.
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By John M. Tierney  For Rachel Carson admirers, it has not been a silent spring. They have been celebrating the centennial of her birthday with paeans to her saintliness. A new generation is reading her book in school - and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it.
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By Jesse James Deconto, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 19--CHAPEL HILL -- The Town Council had a singular message for St. Thomas More Church on Monday night: The area where U.S.
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In the town where liberty was born, a perfect record, it seemed, was about to die.
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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One person's generator is the neighborhood's generator. Teenagers volunteer to clear debris from neighbors' lawns. A funeral home provides cremation services, at no cost, to a woman who lost her husband and home during Hurricane Jeanne.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe&#39;s largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis