Midwest Towns Sour on War as Their Tolls Mount
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TIPTON, Iowa -- This farming town in Cedar County buried Army Spec. Aaron Sissel during the Iraq war's ninth month. It buried Army Spec. David W. Behrle during the 51st. Along the way, as a peaceable community's heart sank, its attitude toward President Bush and his Iraq strategy turned more...
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Residents of parts of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana struggled on Saturday to recover from nearly a week of destructive thunderstorms while preparing for more floods from overburdened rivers and streams.
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NAKURU, Kenya -- Street battles engulfed a western Kenyan city tense with ethnic rivalries on Friday, leaving bodies in the roadways with gashes in their heads and arrows lodged in their torsos in the latest fighting set off by the disputed presidential election.
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On Scene: As residents leave the war zone to head north, the humanitarian disaster in the south is getting worse
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A rural Wisconsin town was reeling Monday after five people were shot and killed and three others injured in a dispute over a deer hunting platform.
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The strafing of a school by a National Guard F-16 fighter jet has divided residents of the fast-growing region around the Warren Grove Gunnery Range. Some fear for their safety, while others consider it profoundly unpatriotic to question the military during a time of war.
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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EVANSTON, Ill. Lest there be any doubt where Rep. Jan Schakowsky stands, her house is the one with the two red-and-white yard signs, installed just last week, that call out, "Support The Troops. END THE WAR." The Illinois Democrat, one of the most outspoken Iraq war opponents in Congress, was uni...
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For the small community of Houma, La. to lose so many in one day makes the pain of war more immediate.
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This is a difficult time of year in most baseball-loving American cities. But it feels especially gloomy in places like Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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HOMER CITY, Pa.  When the screeching of claws against metal fences becomes too much to bear, when they no longer can tolerate the cacophony of howling and whining that rumbles across this former coal-mining town, Bob Alexander's neighbors have been known to march up his gravel driveway, past 70 h...
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Mayor Kent Forbes has learned a hard truth about small-town life in Iowa: Sometimes it stinks.
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The sprawling Chicago suburbs that send their sons and daughters to Northern Illinois University struggled Sunday with the closeness of the country's latest massacre Â this time the gunman grew up among them.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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The deaths of nine civilians, including a child, in a U.S. airstrike south of Baghdad have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from Sunni areas on the capital's doorstep.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 6--Pat Houlihan remembers when La Crosse City Hall was pretty rough and tumble.
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BAQUBA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military  operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.