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Rose Parade 2013: float list and route map

2013-01-01 07:42:58

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India marks a year without recorded cases of polio

2012-01-12 16:14:00

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Former school board member who fathered a child with teen girl sentenced to prison

2010-05-21 16:34:23

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Africa's Suffering Is Bush's Shame

2005-06-12 00:00:00

President Bush last week brazenly brushed aside British Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for a doubling of aid to Africa. Blair and other European leaders have taken on the task of fighting extreme poverty — and Bush watches from the sidelines. To...

Ind. man, 72, shaves shaggy eyebrows for charity

2009-01-21 00:00:00

A 72-year-old man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning raised $1,600 for charity from people who paid to take turns trimming his out-of-control brows. Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher's shaggy eyebrows measured more than three...

Chatsworth train crash survivor has a long road back

2009-04-15 00:00:00

Racheal Mofya sits quietly, her head down, there but not there. Her left arm rests in a sling. She scratches at the healing scars all over her body. A plum-colored turban hides the thick, livid scars snaking around her head. Mofya is in a gaily...

Reading by 9

2005-03-03 10:45:57

++++++++++++++++++++ || Program Overview || Reading by 9 is a multi-year campaign aimed at helping Southern California kindergarten through third-grade students read at grade level by the age of nine. It was launched by The Times in 1998. || || � || The...

John Woods Carpenter Jr., 88

2013-05-22 07:59:00

John Woods Carpenter Jr., 88, of Walloon Lake, Mich., and Orange City, Fla., died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Orange City, Fla., as a result of kidney and heart failure. From birth, he had spent his summers at Walloon Lake and moved there permanently...

Ashland Area Rotary celebrates 75th anniversary

2013-05-20 04:54:02

The Ashland Area Rotary Club celebrated the 75th anniversary of receiving its charter with a dinner and program Sunday at The Mineshaft Cafe. The dinner celebrated a club that has placed the Rotarian motto, "Service Above Self," in its community...

At 85, Polio Survivor Joins Rotary To Help Fight Disease

2013-05-16 14:00:00

Polly Hincks was 85 years old when she decided to join the local Rotary Club. Now 86, the polio survivor was eating dinner at The McAuley retirement community last fall when she met a few members of Rotary International. She learned that the...

End of smallpox

2013-05-17 15:18:00

Although polio has been reduced to its lowest level in history, three countries still have polio transmission — Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year 223 polio cases were reported. So far in 2013 there have been 19 cases, according to the...

Rotary Club's Don't Meth with MO program needs public votes for $10,000 prize

2013-05-13 10:19:00

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man from Springfield and his Rotary Club are in the running for a $10,000 prize to aid an effort to keep youngsters from getting hooked on methamphetamine. The money would come from the Safeco Insurance Community Hero contest. John...

T.O. Moore, left, foundation committee chairman for Sunrise Rotary Club, presents the Paul Harris Fellow award to Sunrise member Joel Rice. The award is presented in recognition of contributions to the Rotary Foundation.

2013-05-05 14:00:00

Sunrise Rotary Club recently recognized first-time Paul Harris Fellows. They are John Hoover, Pam Christoffel, Dwayne Shrader, Stephen Ryan and Joseph Gerstner. A Paul Harris Fellowship Award is conveyed in recognition of contributions to the Rotary Foundation.

2013-03-24 16:22:00

Standing, Dori Nipps, Maryland Symphony Orchestra; Tamara Nuzzaci Park, Maryland Symphony Orchestra; Ronald Bowers, The Maryland Theatre; Carolyn Brooks, Character Counts!; Bridget Jones-Smith, Character Counts!

2013-02-15 00:00:00