For one final year, Lee County emergency 'Bunker' must do

Source: The News-Press

Lee Countys emergency operations personnel will spend one final summer in The Bunker. In 1978, well before Lee encountered Charley, Francis, Ivan, Jean or Wilma hurricanes that damaged or struck a glancing blow in Southwest Florida and kil ...
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Chief: Smoker's oxygen tank fed fire

Source: Boston Herald

Fire officials renewed warnings yesterday of mixing smoking with medical oxygen after they said a Plymouth woman’s dropped cigarette ignited tubing for her home oxygen tank, setting off a four-alarm blaze that injured five people and displaced two dozen ...
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Ray E. Garmon

Source: Parkersburg Sentinel

Ray Edward Garmon, 75, of Supply, N.C., passed away at his home on May 13, 2012. Mr. Garmon was born June 2, 1936, in Gadsden, Ala., and was the son of the late Wilburn Edward Garmon and Frances Papish Ga ...
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Baseball lent its support to World War II effort

Source: Reading Eagle

Baseball long has been tied to the United States military and our country's war efforts, all the way back to the Civil War, believe it or not. The sport has been credited with helping morale at the front and at home. President F ...
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Education Notebook for May 27

Source: Biloxi Sun Herald

McNeer, Miller earn top honors Biloxi High School seniors Elizabeth Ann McNeer and Genevieve Clare LaRose Miller have been named salutatorian and valedictorian, respectively, and also have been named finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Co ...
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Lies, damned lies and Cuban ‘diplomacy’

Source: Miami Herald

Even by the standards of Cuban diplomacy — a web of deceit and cover for espionage — the performance of the Castro representive before the Geneva-based Convention on Torture last week has been a mind-lowing ...
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Red Cross chief denies board members stepped down over PAC report

Source: Independent.ie

The Secretary General of the Irish Red Cross, Donal Forde, has contacted us about our story last week in which we reported that six members of the board of the Irish Red Cross Society are stepping down, following a report by the P ...
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Crews called to Richmond Ave for fire

Source: CNY Central

Fire crews were called to 240 Richmond Ave. in the city of Syracuse Saturday night. When they arrived, they found heavy flames, primarily in the back of the house. Firefighters say everyone was able to get out safely. The Red ...
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United Way's Day of Caring, set for June 21, needs volunteer teams

Source: The Register Citizen

Would you like to make a difference in your community? What better way to officially start the summer than by volunteering for the United Way of Northwest Connecticut Day of Caring on Thursday, June 21, which coincides with ...
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