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Tomorrow (June 30), they will look to win their first-ever road playoff game when they face the Arizona Rattlers in an American Conference Wild Card Round matchup. In Grand Rapids regular-season finale, the Rampage rolled to an 86-70 road win over the New Orleans VooDoo, securing a playoff berth while knocking the VooDoo out of [...]

Photos from Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Catholic college and university presidents at The Catholic University of America on April 17, 2008. Photos from Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Catholic college and university presidents at The Catholic University of America. Photos from the day of the Pope’s Arrival and Welcome by President George Bush at [...]

In the paper’s second round of job cuts since March, 25 employees accepted voluntary severance packages. The paper will shut its offices in Augusta, Washington, D.C., Biddeford and Bath by next Wednesday, and the staffers at the Maine bureaus will move to the Portland headquarters.
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Roker began his broadcasting career while still in college by landing a job as a weekend weatherman WTVH-TV in Syracuse, N.Y. After graduation he moved on to weathercasting jobs in Washington, D.C. The seven time Emmy Award winner also co-hosts The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Rose Bowl Parade and appears on various specials for [...]

“Aetna is happy to support the Marine Corps Marathon in sponsoring these valuable programs,” said Mike Bucci, president of Aetna’s National Accounts operation for Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. “As one of the nation’s leading health benefits organization, and as a major employer, Aetna is committed to promoting wellness initiatives that encourage more Americans to [...]

Papa Johns announced that 86 stores in Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Youngstown are in on the deal, and each is prepared to sell more than 900 pies on Thursday. Papa Johns agreed the deal as an apology to Cleveland Cavaliers fans after a franchisee in Washington, D.C., made T-shirts calling star James a crybaby. Youre [...]

The Louisville, Ky.-based company agreed to the deal as an apology to Cleveland Cavaliers fans after a franchisee in Washington, D.C., made T-shirts calling star LeBron James a “crybaby.” The shirts referred to James’ complaints about hard fouls during a playoff series with the Washington Wizards. The 23-cent price of a pizza is an homage [...]

Muhammad says in the letter released Tuesday that he is waiving all rights to appeal his 2003 conviction and death sentence for the sniper killings in 2002 that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region. Muhammad says he has tried without success to stop efforts by his defense lawyers, and that he is counting on the state [...]

Located west of the International Date Line, Guam is three times the size of Washington, D.C. John McCain acquired the necessary delegate votes to get his party’s nomination; all of the nine Guam Republican delegates, unsurprisingly, were assigned to him. Guam will send five superdelegates, with one vote each, to the convention. Guam’s DNC Committee [...]

While major national rallies will take place in locations like the Mall in Washington, D.C., Portsmouth High School will hold a student-created Earth Day celebration designed to educate the community about the environment. Since its start in 1970, Earth Day has also come to represent an unofficial day of environmental accounting about how far [...]

Alien life may well exist in a primitive form somewhere in our corner of the galaxy, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Monday. Given the size of the universe, it is unlikely that Earth is the only planet to develop some sort of life, Hawking told an audience at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He [...]

Crazy Like a Fox is a limited drama which seems to be boring just after reading the plot, and the few reviews I read through just confirms that. This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of [...]

“I’ve never been able to go to Rome and it’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do,” she said. Geiran and her husband, John, may not be able to make that trip, but today they will get to see Pope Benedict XVI. She and her husband won two free tickets to today’s papal Mass at [...]

Edward p. Brown, buried apart from his second wife, sarah, in the st. Meade camp 5 suvcw of odenton; lincoln-cushing camp-ground 2 suvcw of washington, d.c.; maryland diremption sons of confederate veterans; pvt. He is wounded and after the war returns home to ripen into a farmer. Being of modest means, he secures a burial [...]

Symmary:
For Sundays 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat. Servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, its a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C. Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sundays race, the mini heatwave, with [...]

Symmary:
For Sundays 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat. Servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, its a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C. Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sundays race, the mini heatwave, with [...]

Symmary:
For Sundays 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat. Servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, its a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C. Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sundays race, the mini heatwave, with [...]

Symmary:
For Sundays 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat. Servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, its a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C. Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sundays race, the mini heatwave, with [...]

Symmary:
For Sundays 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat. Servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, its a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C. Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sundays race, the mini heatwave, with [...]