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Gun Safety Could Become PE Option
Sixth-graders could be required to take dance and gymnastics and high school students may have the option of enrolling in a gun safety class or going water skiing to fulfill a physical education requirement.
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Around the Valley
The nonsmoking Double Deck Pinochle Club meets at 6:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays for double-deck pinochle .
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Troubled Economy: Stretching Every Dollar
The economic downturn grabbing national headlines looks very personal up close, in the midnight lighting of a Rapid Cash store on Nellis Boulevard.
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Anchor Distilling rides cocktail wave with whiskey
Seventy years old, with salt and pepper hair and looking as if he's dressed for an afternoon hike, Frederick "Fritz" Louis Maytag III doesn't cut the thread of the typical urban hipster.
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French victim s parents make appeal to British
The parents of a French student savagely stabbed to death in London called Sunday for his killer or killers to turn themselves in, and urged the British people to help police solve the crime.
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Help with student loans
Student loans remain one of the best methods to help families cover the cost of a higher education.
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District should reallocate the money it currently has
Recently, the Statesman Journal has featured impassioned pleas for a yes vote on the Salem-Keizer School District bond issue.
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New program erases student loan debt
If you're facing years of student loan payments but aren't making much money because you're working in public service, the federal government has some good news for you.
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| World News In Brief |
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What's Happening | Edinburgh
St. Cuthbert's Paris Church sits below Edinburgh Castle. Every August, the global theatrical community -- well, at least the part that is drawn to an all-male, musical version of Chekhov's Three Sisters -- ...
Hua Hin - Hua Hin, Thailand
Ok, so the last time I updated I was in Bangkok. We left the hostel around 11 and got a cab to the bus station.
Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title
Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Eau Claire, Mich.
- On the road forever'
Midget, the not-overly-tall chestnut quarterhorse, seemed very interested in his dinner Saturday evening as he followed a trail of grass and happily munched away.
Bush defends Olympics trip
President Bush defended his decision to attend next month's Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, China, saying to do otherwise "would be an affront to the Chinese people, which would make it more difficult to ...
Bush: 'Affront' to Chinese to skip Olympics start
President Bush says he's going to the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics because skipping it would be an "affront" to the Chinese people.
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