Lottery Winnings Bring Dad Home From Iraq
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In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt. Now Charles Craig Young is heading home, since the family won &#36;100,000 Wednesday night playing Powerball.
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Major John Lee Cockerham was considered an unlikely success story in his hometown, now he and his family are facing corruption charges related to contracts in Iraq.
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A WELSH father was last night preparing to fly home from Israel after being barred from leaving the country for 10 days as a result of a bitter custody battle.
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Kalashnikovs checked at door Not to be outdone by the establishment of the American University of Iraq in the northern Iraqi city of Suleimaniya, a ballsy Russian businessman, Vitaly Kouznetzov, has helped bring another, sexier, slice of American life to the Iraqi Kurds: he's brought a touch of Las Vegas to that same Kurdish cultural capital with the launch of an American-style casino. Take that, al-Qaeda.â¦
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The first batch of Japanese troops have returned home from Iraq after the nation ended its first deployment since World War II to a country where fighting is underway.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric in Iraq, unexpectedly returned to his homeland yesterday after nearly three weeks overseas during which anarchy has rapidly taken hold.
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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Wahab Murad, 43, flew in from Denver with his 20-year-old son, Dana, to cast absentee ballots in Iraq's first independent election in nearly 50 years. As in many polling places across America, the mood was upbeat as expatriates danced, sang and celebrated.
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When Sgt. Jose Bermudez returned from Iraq early this year, he came home to a new baby and a troubled marriage.
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Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Williams was supposed to be home on this day -- Father's Day -- to feel the embrace of his four young children, but he couldn't. Like so many fathers fighting in Iraq, the essence of home has been boiled down to the basics. "I get photos and videos in boxes and trinkets in boxes," says Williams. "That lets me know they're there and they care. That's something I can hold on to."
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Having served in Iraq, Dave Krasner is now back home in Boston, struggling to keep alive the small computer consulting company he left behind.
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CHICAGO -- After watching the devastation of his country under Saddam Hussein, and suffering torture at the hands of Hussein's son Uday, Ihsan Abdulhadi fled Iraq in 1998 and eventually ended up in Omaha, never thinking free elections would be held in his homeland.
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After nearly seven months rigging convoys for runs through the desert around this remote base in western Iraq, Lance Cpl. Bobby Elsworth was hoping that returning to his home camp in southern Japan would mean an easier life.
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In his darkest moments, Jack Whittaker has sometimes wondered if winning the nearly $315 million Powerball game was really worth it.
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SOLDIER Paul Lowe (right) e-mailed his family from the bleak desert base of Camp Dogwood last week saying: âI just want to get home.
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A Londonderry man wins more than Â£1.6m in the National Lottery - thanks to a child crying in his local shop.
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A lucky Belgium resident has returned home from holiday to find themselves 100 million euros (130 million dollars) richer after discovering a winning lottery ticket.