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News from every stateTop recruiters by conference (Rivals.com via Yahoo! Sports) It's easy to say head coaches are the reason why a team has a successful recruiting class.
Blood lust and bragging rights (Online Journal) Which organization is the greatest threat to the Second Amendment, the anti-gun Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence or Idaho’s pro-gun Sportsmen for Wildlife?
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Gas line under repair after explosion (Winston County Journal) Gas line under repair after explosion By Joseph McCain The Winston County Journal Many in the Whitehall community awoke last Wednesday what some describe as a rumbling of the ground and a loud "boom".
Bachman Wins Middle School Geography Bee (East Aurora Advertiser) East Aurora Middle School fifth-grader Benjamin Bachman was the winner of the school’s 2010 National Geography Bee. The runner-up was Tanner Reese, an eighth-grader.
OBITUARIES (The Register-Guard) Valera Bloom Valera Bloom of Eugene died Feb. 2 of age-related causes. She was 90. No service is planned. She was born Nov. 27, 1919, in Salt Lake City to Roy and Bernice Lisonbee. She married Leslie C. Bloom on April 21, 1941, in Salt Lake City. He died Jan. …
Perry stumps in Odessa (Odessa American) Texas Gov. Rick Perry stopped in Odessa Monday, a day after his much-hyped campaign appearance with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin near Houston (which came a day after her much-hyped speech before the national "tea party" convention).
NEW! Tift County, region under flood watch (Tifton Gazette) A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TIFT COUNTY AND MUCH OF THE REGION THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING, ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Texting ban shaky (The Decatur Daily) MONTGOMERY — Days after a fatal Limestone County wreck that authorities said may have involved text messaging, bills to ban drivers sending texts got a likely death sentence in the Senate.