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Blake Shelton to aid tornado victims; more severe storms ahead
Top country music stars, including Oklahoma native Blake Shelton and his Grammy Award-winning wife, Miranda Lambert, were gathering Wednesday to raise money for the tornado-ravaged state. Set to perform during a telethon at the Chesapeake Energy Arena...
Tags: National Weather Service, Natural Disasters, Weather Reports, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Tornadoes
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5 killed in Illinois shooting; suspect dies after police chase
Five members of a family were killed in a home in Manchester, Ill., and the suspected gunman died after a police chase, officials said Wednesday. The family, including a grandmother, a young couple and two small children, were found dead in the Scott...
Tags: Shootings, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Bradley, Interior Policy
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Not Just for Kids: Fun and thrills in 'Lincoln's Grave Robbers'
-------------------- Lincoln's Grave Robbers Steve Sheinkin Scholastic Press: 224 pp., $16.99, ages 10 and up -------------------- Steven Spielberg's movie "Lincoln" is not for every child, and Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is not even for...
Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Criminals, Django Unchained (movie), Theft, Crime, Law and Justice
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, beau add a 'wedding' tie to charity line
Emmy-nominated actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson ("Modern Family") and partner Justin Mikita have just added a new neck knot to their wildly successful month-and-a-half-old line of jaunty bow ties -- a formal style suitable for wedding wear. The couple...
Tags: Lobbying, Weddings, Marriage, Politics, Illinois General Assembly
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Mary Todd Lincoln painting deemed a fake by art experts
Culture MonsterA portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln, that has hung in the Illinois governor's mansion for years as been deemed a fake by art experts.... -
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' winning over Lincoln historians
Nation Now'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter': The film 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' gives the 16th president a reboot as a vampire hunter. At first, historians were aghast. Now, they're cheering -- some of them anyway.... -
A prairie house for puppies: Frank Lloyd Wright's doghouse
Culture MonsterFrank Lloyd Wright designed a house for the black labrador Eddie that was rebuilt last fall and has been touring the country ever since.... -
Bobblehead Booth pulled from Lincoln Museum shelves
Culture MonsterOne of the more tragic moments of American history will not be retold via bobblehead. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., recently pulled John Wilkes Booth dolls from the gift shop selves. The move follows a...... -
Obama and Lincoln: trash-talking, Civil War-era style
Top of the TicketAfter President Obama remarked on how comments about him compared to those directed at Abraham Lincoln, we take a look at some historical trash talk.... -
The shocking contempt for women's rights [The reply]
Opinion L.A.How far have American women come since winning the right to vote in 1920? Eve Weinbaum and Rachel Roth addressed this question in an Aug. 26 Op-Ed, “Beyond suffrage,” bringing up issues that elicited backlash on our discussion board.... -
Louise Taper lists seven-bedroom Beverly Park home
Abraham Lincoln manuscript and artifact collector Louise Taper has put her Beverly Park estate on the market at $18 million.
The two-story Colonial, built in 1988, was previously the personal residence of Beverly Park developer Brian Adler. Taper...Tags: Abraham Lincoln
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry: 'United in sending one clear and simple message to Washington: Enough'
Top of the TicketRepublican Gov. Rick Perry celebrates Texas economic job growth and urges resistance to Washington incursions....
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