Matt Reed: Second look at cityhood, moon base, FCAT mess

Source: Florida Today

On my watchlist this week: A mystery surrounding Merritt Island cityhood, the Romney campaigns conflicting ideas on space exploration, and a report on who pays for all that high-stakes testing in Brevard Publi ...
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McClellan: Detective's skill at interviewing may have caught wrong man

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Herb "Rip" Riley wore a fedora. He smoked unfiltered cigarettes. He believed that solving murders was more art than science. He was the dean of the homicide detectives when I became the night police reporter for th ...
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A Look Back • Defendants walk in lynching of German immigrant in Collinsville in 1918

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDWARDSVILLE • Bernhardt Mueller, a barber, testified he saw Joseph Riegel lead the lynching. Riegel grabbed the rope first, Mueller said, and shouted to his cohorts, "Let's not have any slackers here." Defense lawyers asked Mueller ...
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Satirist Tom Wolfe takes on Miami

Source: Florida Today

MIAMI — Oscar Corral thought someone was yanking his chain the day the phone rang at The Miami Herald newsroom and a soft-spoken voice with just a hint of southern drawl said: Oscar Corral, this is Tom Wolfe. That would b ...
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Brock Lesnar Attends UFC 146, Dana White Hints Brock May Be Back

Source: MMAPlayground.com

Former UFC Heavyweight champion and current WWE superstar Brock Lesnar made an unusual appearance at tonight's UFC 146 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The notoriously reclusive Lesnar is not someone often seen in the crowd at a UFC event. In the past his appea ...
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Diamond expands recall of pet food

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Several varieties of Diamond Naturals dog food have been recalled since April. Of the 14 people who have been sickened, at least five have been hospitalized with salmonella infections. According to the Centers for Disease Contr ...
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After 50 years, mine fire still burns

Source: Duluth News Tribune

David DeKok stands on abandoned Route 61 in Centralia, Pa., on Thursday. Fifty years ago today, a fire at the town dump spread to a network of coal mines underneath hundreds of homes and business in the northeastern Pennsylvania borough of Cen ...
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LIVINGSTON: High school sports at its finest

Source: Farmington Daily Times

Better high school sports couldn't have been played in the country this year than what was put on display in San Juan County. even a quarterback with the touch and grace of a Brycson King. They did it with Adam ...
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Sifrit double murder case - Ten years later

Source: Altoona Mirror

OCEAN CITY - A decade ago, Benjamin and Erika Sifrit, both 24, shot and killed a vacationing couple, then dismembered their bodies and dumped the remains into various trash receptacles along the Delaware coast. It was, by most accounts, one of the most g ...
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