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(Photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York....Full Story

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(Photo: Creative Commons / Blueag9)Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart Priscilla Chan
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Saturday's high school roundup: HRA takes state boys lacrosse crown
| Here's a look at Saturday's game-by-game action in high schools: | http://highschoolsports.dailypress.com/2011/schedules/20120519/20120519 | As for the highlights: | Boys lacrosse: | The Hampton Roads Academy Navigators are state champions. | Tournament MVP Andrew Car...Full Story
G-8 warns North Korea about further provocations
| NEW YORK (AP) - The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range rocket launch in April. | The U.S., Canada, France, Germany...Full Story
Cascading through Spring Titles
They came from a tribe of 3,000 years ago for something awful and now the world must pay... Credit: Robert Liparulo/ Thomas Nelson Publishers They came from a tribe of 3,000 years ago for something awful and now the world must pay...The Betarrini sisters return back to ...Full Story
Japan answers the the call on Chinese agression
| As the standoff over Scarborough Shoal between China and the  Philippines continues, the Obama Administration remains AWOL, as does the so called 'main stream media'. | Though it is highly unlikley China would embark on a conquest of the entire Philippine Islands, Ch...Full Story
Brooklyn HS band’s trial by fire
| The show must go on. | A group of Brooklyn high-school students managed to compete in a Virginia music competition even after their bus burst into flames on I-95 and their instruments were destroyed, thanks to an amazing outpouring of generosity. | Officials at Deep R...Full Story
Another ‘random act’ of black-on-white violence
| On Thursday, police in Dallas arrested Antowann Davis, 30, after he allegedly stabbed a woman inside the Target on Marsh Lane. | Davis removed a butcher knife from its packaging in the cutlery section and stabbed Martha Jones, 29, in the lower back as she simply walke...Full Story
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Sun 20 May 2012
WWE Over the Limit 2012 online video preview
The Examiner Watch the WWE Over the Limit 2012 official video promo from YouTube. Credit: YouTube.com, WWE Read the article:  WWE Over the Limit 2012 live stream online and local viewing info Matt Couden | Roanoke Pro Wrestling Examiner RSSFollowSubscribe Co...
Buffett a believer in good old newspapers
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | Who would have thought we'd see Warren Buffett buying newspapers? | Imagine, that old business. | Traditionalists will recall (perhaps fondly) a medium of information that got stuffed in a curbside box or landed with a clunk on a doorstep, where th...
Jennifer Vanasco and Jennifer Hagel
The New York Times | Jennifer Layne Vanasco and Jennifer Marie Hagel were married Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church of New York. The Rev. Heidi Neumark, the church’s pastor, performed the ceremony. Enlarge This Image Jane Lowers | Ms. Vanasco (left), 40, is a f...
Moraya Jackson and Christopher DeGeare
The New York Times | Enlarge This Image Serendipity photo | Moraya Seeger Jackson and Christopher Landis DeGeare were married Friday at the Scott County Courthouse in Shakopee, Minn. Judge Kevin W. Eide, of Minnesota’s First Judicial District, who presides in Cha...
Christiana Fiorilli and Tate Ellington
The New York Times | Christiana Danielle Fiorilli and James Tate Ellington were married Saturday evening at the Dixie Gin, an event space in Shreveport, La. The Rev. Jeffrey R. Jordan, a Presbyterian minister, officiated. Enlarge This Image Courtney Dellafiora | Mrs. F...
Emma Rosen, Noah Sugerman
The New York Times | Emma Nicole Rosen and Dr. Noah Tolmach Sugerman are to be married Sunday evening at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. Rabbi Scott G. Perlo is to officiate. Enlarge This Image Sam Lim Studio | The bride, 25, and bridegroom, 27, met ...
Former 'Eers, Butler & Flowers returned to Charleston for a good cause
MSNBC | It's always great to see a pair of former Mountaineers back in the Mountain State, especially if it's for a good cause. | On Saturday former WVU basketball stars, Da'Sean Butler and John Flowers were in Nitro at Collectibles Etc. signing autographs...
Ashley Heise, Sasha Freger
The New York Times | Ashley Winn Heise and Aleksander Freger were married Saturday evening at the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. Keith Gugliuzza, a minister of the Church of Human Spiritualism, officiated. Enlarge This Image | The bride, 31, is a vice presiden...
Allidah Muller, Nathaniel Rogers
The New York Times | Katherine Allidah Muller and Nathaniel Forbes Race Rogers were married Saturday at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C. Canon J. Michael A. Wright, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony. Enlarge This Image | The bride, 29, ...
Head of James River detention center named
Richmond Times Dispatch HENRICO, VA. -- | Henrico County Manager Virgil R. Hazelett has appointed Michael D. Martin as superintendent of the James River Juvenile Detention Center, effective June 2. | Martin, who currently serves as an assistant superintendent of the 60-bed ...
Olympic star Comaneci to speak at Monticello
Richmond Times Dispatch | Olympic gold medalist and naturalized citizen Nadia Comaneci plans to speak at Monticello's 2012 Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. | The event is set for 9 a.m. July 4 on the west lawn of Monticello. Comaneci was the first O...
City's anti-poverty commission seeks feedback
Richmond Times Dispatch RICHMOND, Va. -- | A city commission is holding two meetings this week in Gilpin Court and on Hull Street to get feedback from the community about how to reduce poverty in Richmond. | Mayor Dwight C. Jones' anti-poverty commission met for nearly a ye...
Pesticide disposal program planned in September
Richmond Times Dispatch | Virginia will conduct its annual pesticide disposal program in September. | The Office of Pesticide Services will collect unwanted, outdated or banned pesticides at sites in Scottsburg, Charlotte Courthouse, Blackstone, Collinsville, Chatham, Rustb...
Richmond Area MPO to hold information sessions
Richmond Times Dispatch RICHMOND, Va. -- | The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is holding three public information sessions about Plan 2035, a draft long-range proposal for transportation projects in the region. | The draft of the plan can be viewed at http...
Caregiver Connections sets its initial meeting
Richmond Times Dispatch CHESTERFIELD, Va. -- | The Chesterfield County Senior Advocate's Office and Lucy Corr Village are launching Caregiver Connections to help address the needs of those who are caring for an adult with physical or cognitive deterioration. | This support ...
In Buckingham County, suit gets under way that could undermine family dynasty
Richmond Times Dispatch BUCKINGHAM -- | An aqua-colored mineral so valuable and rare that a truckload of the processed stuff could pay for a new car literally exists by the mountain load in this pastoral Virginia county in the Blue Ridge foothills. | In gem form, it's worth...
Virginia lotteries for May 20
Richmond Times Dispatch | Virginia lotteries | SATURDAY, MAY 19 | Day Pick 3: 6-0-9 | Day Pick 4: 8-3-6-7 | Day Cash 5: 4-6-15-16-26 | Night Pick 3: 1-0-2 | Night Pick 4: 2-5-6-8 | Night Cash 5: 3-15-18-26-30 | Win Life: 5-9-17-26-29-36 (FB 4) | Power: 8-13-35-46-51 (PB 30)...
Local news for Sunday, May 20
Richmond Times Dispatch CHESTERFIELD -- | Head of James River detention center named | Henrico County Manager Virgil R. Hazelett has appointed Michael D. Martin as superintendent of the James River Juvenile Detention Center, effective June 2. | Martin, who currently serves ...
Dulac: Secret's out on Oglebay's top courses
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | WHEELING, W.Va. -- When Earl W. Oglebay purchased a 25-acre tract more than a century ago in this corner of West Virginia, he never dreamed what began as a country estate would turn into what it is today: a rolling mountain-style resort with 63 hol...
At parade, a big 'Thank You' to veterans
Richmond Times Dispatch Richmond, VA -- | A simple handwritten sign held by Pat Brooks of Henrico County said it all: "Thank You." | That summed up the message thousands of Richmond-area residents were expressing Saturday as they stood along the Boulevard, cheering and wavi...
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