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Dog rescued from icy water

Dog rescued from icy water Feb. 21: Cameras roll as an animal control officer and a teenage boy try to rescue a dog from an icy pond. KSNW’s Dana Hertneky reports. Dog rescued from icy water Source: MSN Video

Really hungry? How about 134-pound burger

Really hungry? How about 134-pound burger Michigan eatery will serve it on 50-pound bun — with 24 hours’ notice SOUTHGATE, Mich. – A Detroit-area restaurant owner believes he has broken the world record for “largest hamburger commercially available.” After 12 hours of preparation and baking, the 134-pound burger emerged Saturday at Mallie’s Sports Bar and [...]

Organizer of program to give laptop computers to students should step down, say Birmingham City Council members

The organizer of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford’s laptop computer initiative should end his involvement in the program because of allegations he misused money of an earlier nonprofit group, several City Council members said Tuesday. The council voted 8-1 to delay for two weeks a $3.5 million contract with Birmingham Education Initiative Inc. to manage the [...]

Kids time travel back to 1800s school

FAIRFIELD — In the chilly classroom, the boys stood and bowed to the teacher in greeting. The girls did the same, but with a curtsy. A language drill followed, with the boys struggling a bit to repeat the unfamiliar Latin words the teacher called out to them. The girls fared a bit better in their [...]

Kentucky House task force suggests fewer casinos

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A House task force on casinos recommended yesterday that no more than nine gambling halls be allowed in the state with none of them promised to racetracks — a reduction from the 12 casinos proposed last week by Gov. Steve Beshear. Unlike Beshear’s proposed constitutional amendment, the recommendation gives tracks no special [...]

Berea curfew passes

For those 17, younger Andy McDonald Special to the Register BEREA — The city of Berea passed an ordinance Tuesday night imposing a curfew on citizens 17 and younger. According to the new law, youths are prohibited from being in public from the hours of 1 to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 to [...]

How to Become a Rock Star

If Jonathan Coulton were to write a song about his own success as a rock star, there would be little mention of the booze, drugs, one-night stands and lonely road laments that typically play out the power chord mix of mythic guitar heroes and music idols. Instead, Coulton would refer to escaping a life awash [...]

Four sisters support America’s Space Mission – and each other – at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Growing up in nearby Limestone County in northern Alabama, sisters Vera ”Nell” Harris, Gloria Ayers and Lena Andrews spent countless hours chopping cotton in the hot Alabama sun to save money for new bicycles. With every dollar they tucked away, the three young girls – along with their youngest sister, Dorothy Holloway [...]

Slowly, Smyrna reinvents itself

SMYRNA — They say that in a small town everybody knows everybody’s business. “They” have never been to Smyrna. Bill Raynor often goes to Town Council meetings in search of information, and leaves frustrated. “They sure as hell confuse me sitting there,” said Raynor, the town’s former police chief. “That’s the way it’s been for [...]