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Lincoln letter auctioned for a record $3.4 millionApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Abraham Lincoln's 1864 letter to Horace Mann's widow, responding to her students' request that he free slave children, was sold by Sotheby's auction house in New York Th...
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Jeff Adair: One man's experience living under Zimbabwe's dictatorApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - So another African country is in the news. Surprise, surprise. This time it's Zimbabwe, which for the first time in 28 years could soon have a new leader. While most peo...
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Beacon Hill committee backs bill to extend Tri Town control of air base to 2053Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The agency behind the massive SouthField development has won a legislative committee's endorsement of a measure that would make borrowing more than $100 million in finan...
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Capitol Notebook: Levine reveals past drug use, consApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Play of the Week Stuart Levine, the federal government's chief witness in the case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich pal Tony Rezko, just isn't the kind of guy you...
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Injured teen improvingApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - An Alfred-Almond sophomore injured in a car accident that killed his classmate is improving at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Billy Brown, 16, of Almond, was...
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Child digs up 4,000-year-old Native American toolsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Donna White's grandson, Dalton, was digging in White's backyard when he uncovered what he said was a "stone in the shape of a little man." "I knew immediately what he ha...
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Editorial: Recycling a very good ideaApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Change is always hard so it's no surprise that there is so much resistance to the decision in Plymouth to convert the trash disposal system for residents to the so-calle...
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Pilgrim officials confident of license renewalApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - With a public hearing on the Pilgrim nuclear power plant's monitoring plan less than a week away, officials of the company that owns Pilgrim say they're confident that a...
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Motorists help rescue truck driver after tanker catches fireApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Jerry Reeves was on his way to a dentist appointment when he exited Interstate 55 on Lemont Road and saw a tanker truck fully engulfed in flames. "I was shocked to see t...
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Messages date back to 310 BCApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Ever since Greek philosopher Theophrastus threw sealed bottles into the Mediterranean way back in 310 BC to prove the inland body of water was formed by the Atlantic, pe...