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Grilled-pork pho: It's what's for breakfast
Daily DishSince the message boards at Chowhound.com started up in the late 1990s, the site has been known for its correspondents' tendencies to fly flags for their favorite causes. The site may have begun because of its founder's great need to...... -
George Vujnovich dies at 96; leader of daring World War II rescue
In 1944, as head of the Office of Strategic Services in Bari, Italy, George Vujnovich guided a team of agents who worked with Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draza Mihailovich to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in...Tags: Serbia, U.S. Army, World War II (1939-1945), Belgrade (Serbia), Petroleum Industry
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Department of Defense List of Unaccounted Navy Personnel
-->PENTAGON UNACCOUNTED NAVY - Yeoman Second Class Melissa Rose Barnes, 27, Redlands, Calif. - Information Systems Technician Second Class Kris Romeo Bishundat, 23, Waldorf, Md. - Electronics Technician Third Class Christopher Lee Burford, 23, Hubert, N....Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), U.S. Army, Michael Allen, Houston, Eric Allen
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Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Brian Williams, Hillside, Laurel, David Campbell
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Seminole school-stadium repairs become top priority
SANFORD — Repairs to high-school-football stadiums have leapfrogged atop the Seminole school system's priority list, outranking several leaky roofs and failing air-conditioning systems that the School Board has complained it cannot afford to fix....
Tags: Building Material, Health and Safety at School, Longwood (Seminole, Florida), Oviedo
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Officers from LI arrest suspect in Queens elevator robberies
NewsdayTwo NYPD anti-crime officers from Long Island are being credited with quickly nabbing the suspect in a series of elevator robberies in Queens. The plainclothes officers -- Jonathan Torres of Brookhaven and Nam Jou Kim of Smithtown -- were responding...Tags: Theft, Long Island, New York City Police Department
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Seminole names top school employee
Ivette Garcia has been named the Seminole school district's School-Related Employee of the Year for 2013. Garcia, who has worked for the district for the past 17 years, serves as a secretary in the Department of Exceptional Student Support Services....
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Graham Tire gets approval for 2nd location
The Aberdeen City Council gave the go-ahead Monday for Graham Tire to open an agriculture and truck tire operations facility at 1805 S. Roosevelt St. That location, which is east of Aberdeen Central, is the same one that came before Aberdeen voters on...Tags: Local Elections, Housing and Urban Planning, Voting, Elections, Mini
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City Council agenda
The Aberdeen City Council will meet for a work session open to the public at 4 p.m. Monday in City Council chambers with the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class. The council's regular session will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the courtroom on...Tags: Water Supply, Housing and Urban Planning, Waterbury, Jeff Mitchell, Politics
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Superstorm Sandy scares away Halloween
Los Angeles TimesChildren in New Jersey will have to wait for Halloween this year after Gov. Chris Christie signed an executive order postponing trick-or-treating and other holiday celebrations across the state. Executive Order 105 will postpone Halloween activities...Tags: Ridgefield, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Michael Bloomberg, Chris Christie, Halloween
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Area kids’ bus safety posters are winners
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelSchool bus safety posters created by three Central Florida students are among five from the state that are headed to national competition after winning top prizes in a contest sponsored by the Florida Association for Pupil Transportation. Megan Finn of... -
Pride & Culture On Display For Queens' Ecuadorian Parade
Staff ReporterEvery year, pride takes center stage at the Ecuadorian Parade on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights. And this year, was no different. "We're out here showing our Ecuadorian pride. Pride from where we come from," said Stephanie Marquez, 22, of Queens....Tags: Queens (New York City), Festive Events, Ecuador, Arts and Culture
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