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KENT: Studies have shown that exercise, nutrition and the support of friends and family all play key roles for patients recovering from cancer.
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It only cost a dime to get into the first Portage County Randolph Fair 150 years ago. You could bring your horse into the fair for another dime.
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Akron will celebrate its first bicycle week starting Friday, with rides, workshops, scavenger hunts and bike movies.
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Although baseball was being played all over this great nation on Sunday, spectators at Hale Farm and Village may have witnessed the only incident in which a player broke a split-rail fence while retrieving an errant ball, then was late coming to bat the following inning while he mended it.
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Becca Gruccio and Jamie Reeves will miss the first week of classes at the University of Akron. But they have a good excuse: They're covering the Democratic National Convention.
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MANSFIELD: An Ohio judge who has fought since 2001 to hang the Ten Commandments in his courtroom did not violate a court order when he recently displayed a poster that included shorthand versions of the commandments, a federal judge has ruled.
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For the second time since it was carved in 2005, a statue in front of Williams Hardwood Flooring on West North Street has been ''disarmed.''
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Washington's contested "top two" primary makes its debut Tuesday, with state officials predicting near-record turnout and political parties waiting in the wings for another possible court challenge.
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Officials said the 42-year-old woman was swimming with friends in American Lake after work on Sunday and was under water for at least 10 minutes before being pulled to shore.
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The swastikas were spray-painted on about 45 hay bales in a field next to Interstate 5 in the Marysville area sometime over the weekend.
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Salvador Campos was cut from his mother's womb before she was stabbed to death last month. He spent weeks at a hospital and may never be able to walk.
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The city says the tiny free-standing kiosk at 3rd Avenue and Pike Street that has been at that corner for nearly 90 years now violates city code.
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Nathan Martinez, who is accused of preying on young children he met at church, pleaded not guilty on Monday despite the partial confession he gave to police. Martinez, 21, admiited to molesting three boys and girls, but police said at least 14 alleged victims have come forward.
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Investigators believe a 57-year-old Grayland woman is responsible for the death of her 62-year-old boyfriend, whose partially dismembered remains were found under the couple's trailer. The remains of Kenneth Hutchinson were found in a plastic-wrapped bundle on Aug. 11.
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A Clark County man who went missing over the weekend while on a motorcycle ride was found dead early Monday after he apparently crashed his bike into an area not visible from the road, authorities said.
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The big, bad thunderstorms that the atmosphere seemed prime to support really didn’t amount to much Monday. But Mother Nature is not done making weather headlines in the Northwest just yet.
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Residents and tourists in the Florida Keys prepared Saturday for Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane and begin battering the island chain as soon as Monday.
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Michael Phelps, a Superman in a Speedo, has redefined Greatness. And in this case - as with Edmund Hillary, as with Gen. chuck Yeager, as with all who comprise this fraternity of uber-overachievers - isn't the capital G a must?
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Russia's president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia on Monday, but suggested they could stay in the breakaway region at the heart of the fighting that has reignited Cold War tensions.
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Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday and created flooding that forced helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge. No injuries were immediately reported.
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Every two weeks, firefighters ascend a condemned, black-shrouded skyscraper, checking carefully marked exit signs, a rebuilt water supply system and wide-open corridors. They wear protective suits on floors still contaminated by toxic dust from the World Trade Center.
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Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans.
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Police say a tip led them to Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez, who was captured Monday in West Seattle. The 17-year-old is suspected of fatally shooting a man at Lakota Middle School last week.
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Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer. The record of a confidential 1950 U.S. inquiry and other declassified files tell a different story.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced Monday that he will resign, just days ahead of impeachment in parliament over attempts by the U.S.-backed leader to impose authoritarian rule on his turbulent nation.
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A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to leave the airport until they get the books back, their leader said Monday.
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Salvador Campos was cut from his mother's womb before she was stabbed to death last month. He spent weeks at a hospital and may never be able to walk.
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Tourists jumped on the last plane out of town, store owners shuttered their doors and palm trees bent in gusty winds as Tropical Storm Fay began to bear down on the Florida Keys Monday after killing at least eight people in the Carribean.
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Residents in Port Angeles are being asked to conserve water due to a break in a 24-inch water main.
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Police say a tip led them to Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez, who was captured Monday in West Seattle. The 17-year-old is suspected of fatally shooting a man at Lakota Middle School last week.
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Tim Davis was biking along the Green River trail when his scenic ride took a nasty turn. "Started looking down the river and the first thing I see are shopping carts," he said.
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The city says the tiny free-standing kiosk at 3rd Avenue and Pike Street that has been at that corner for nearly 90 years now violates city code.
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A Clark County man who went missing over the weekend while on a motorcycle ride was found dead early Monday after he apparently crashed his bike into an area not visible from the road, authorities said.
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Nathan Martinez, who is accused of preying on young children he met at church, pleaded not guilty on Monday despite the partial confession he gave to police. Martinez, 21, admiited to molesting three boys and girls, but police said at least 14 alleged victims have come forward.
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Former U.S. Rep. Jolene Unsoeld of Washington state will receive the 2008 James Madison Award for her dedication to the First Amendment and the cause of open government.
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Investigators believe a 57-year-old Grayland woman is responsible for the death of her 62-year-old boyfriend, whose partially dismembered remains were found under the couple's trailer. The remains of Kenneth Hutchinson were found in a plastic-wrapped bundle on Aug. 11.
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Seattle is in violation of the Clean Air Act for the first time since the 1990s. Going over the legal limit for smog over the weekend means officials here will have to start hammering out a plan to improve air quality.
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The Beacon Journal is missing the boat. We advertise the price of our paper as 50 cents. From now on, we should say it's only 15 cents.
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Just because something has been done nine years in a row doesn't mean it will be routine. Far from it, in the case of the annual Police Memorial Motorcycle Rally, which roared into downtown Akron on Sunday afternoon, 600 bikers strong.
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Certain streets are like certain songs: They never fail to remind you of people and events from long ago, of times that helped mold you into the person you have become.
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''The government that governs least, governs best.'' — Thomas Jefferson ''If the government can't afford the money, it should just take the money.''
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The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Ohio Attorney General's office provided incorrect information for the Dyer Streets column on Friday.
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Yet another interesting concept has emerged in our long-running saga about restroom doors. The problem, as a local physician noted earlier, is that, after you wash your hands, you have to pull open the exit door, putting you in contact with hands whose owners didn't bother to wash them — about 35 percent of the users, studies say.
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The late statesman W. Averell Harriman once said he felt as if he'd spent his entire life at a dinner party from which the guest of honor had already departed.
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Astudy conducted last month found that nearly half of the U.S. population is opposed to drilling for oil in Alaska.
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Albert Payne is not the sort of guy you'd expect to stand up and start the revolution. But you couldn't blame him.
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