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Thursday, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. s iconic I have a dream speech, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first black man to accept a major party s nomination for president of the United States. Obama has a large

A maverick on a mission - Rocky Mountain News
In John McCain’s thinking, it is one thing to break the rules and quite another to break the faith. He’s spent a lifetime walking the line between the two. The high school troublemaker became one of the Naval Academy’s “Bad Bunch,” graduating fifth

Birds causing a flap - Watford Observer
Villagers are getting in a flap following the latest birds to take up residency in the tree tops of Croxley Green - a large flock of exotic, and particularly noisy, parrots. The tropical birds, thought to be Ringnecked Parakeets, were first spotted

A Helping Paw - Topeka Capitol-Journal
From left, Barry Feaker, executive director of the Topeka Rescue Mission, Ruth Maus, chairwoman of the Pet Assistance Network of Topeka, and Eilen Doran, with the YWCA Battered Women Task Force, talk Thursday at the YWCA, 225 S.W. 12th, about forming

25 things you might not know about McCain - Forbes
1. He has a stuffed dancing hamster on display in his Senate office. 2. His wife says her obsession with electronic gadgets and technology is one of his pet peeves. 3. He says his pet peeve is politicians who talk too much. (He admits that he’s