A Neighborhood Loses a Friend
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Jack Hensley's friends struggled Tuesday to comprehend what happened to him, how the smiling man who once owned a sports bar could have been executed by Islamic militants in Baghdad, a broken city he was trying to help put back together.
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With professional firefighters stretched to the breaking point across California, many neighbors throughout the state were left to their own devices this past week.
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As grief sweeps the West Bank and Gaza strip over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Americans are feeling the loss thousands of miles away.
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Just when the Miami Heat were getting back on track, they may have lost the person they can least afford to be without.
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Some homeowners learn from their mistakes. Others don't.
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Days after a terrorist bomb killed his friend and scattered body parts near his street vendor&#39;s cart, Dial is still emerging from shock.
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It's like witnessing the sale of the humble home in which you grew up and experienced all the changes of youth. It's like the shuttering of the neighborhood restaurant where your family always gathered to plan, celebrate, and sometimes mourn.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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Twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids. Two years after Green lost everything -- family and possessions -- the gawkers are another reminder of just how far from normal his life is after Katrina.
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&quot;I&#39;m profoundly saddened. He was a colleague, a friend and a hero who possessed fierce inner strength, boundless energy and unwavering hope.
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The body of a 5-year-old girl missing for more than a week has been found in the basement of a neighbor's home, and the neighbor was arrested, authorities said.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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Detectives investigating the death of a one-year-old boy who was mauled by a pet dog will speak to members of the local community.
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com staff writers. Rick Hendrick, his family and the Hendrick Motorsports organization are in the process of mourning the loss of their loved ones and friends who were on board the small Beech
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By helping children abroad, an American couple sought to create a legacy for their son, who died of a heart ailment.
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By Michael Lafleur, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 17--LOWELL -- What began as an attempt to tighten local zoning rules on so-called in-law apartments and help a Belvidere man appease his neighbors, grew into a measure that has drawn the wrath of Pawtucketville neighborhood activists.
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A self-described drug addict stood by a vacant lot on the city&#039;s South Side and pointed down the block. There, he says, more than a dozen of his friends and acquaintances died after using heroin laced with a strong painkiller.