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Student 'prank' floods school to tune of $100,000 in damageJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - The bills from a prank gone wrong at Diamond Middle School have flooded the superintendent's office, and the prankster or pranksters' parents may be made to pay the $100...
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Happy homecoming: Base salutes returning heroesJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - There were plenty of flags and fanfare at Hanscom Air Force Base Friday afternoon as the base community celebrated the safe return of 90 deployed airmen from points acro...
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'Club Penguin': Waddle they think of next?Jun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Imagine a world where penguins roam free, look for treasure, and profanity has been stricken from daily vocabulary. It's a world obsessed with games and various missions...
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State's top spellers honored in SpringfieldJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - By LAURA CAMPER STATE CAPITOL BUREAU SPRINGFIELD -- The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library became the stage for a mock spelling bee Thursday, when Lt. Gov. Pat Qui...
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Police confiscate bar security tape showing CuttsJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Investigators seized surveillance tape from a sports bar that Bobby Cutts visited June 13, the last night that anyone is known to have spoken with his girlfriend, Jessie...
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It's easy being green: With caterpillar populations crashing, once-bare trees are in full bloomJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Ireland should look this green. After several years of devastating caterpillar infestations that left trees as bare in spring as in mid-winter, the South Shore is lush w...
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‘Give her a miracle' - prayer vigil held for missing womanJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - In the white-walled, circular-shaped room, they gathered for a single purpose. Oblivious to the cheerful sunlight streaming through the glass block windows of the cha...
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Blake holds things together for IndiansJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - No sections of Jacobs Field bear his name. National magazines do not feature him on their cover. He doesn't even lead the team in a major statistical category. But a...
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Holmes column: Alcohol education: Serve up the truthJun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - We Americans have lively disagreements about lots of things, but when it comes to kids, booze and drugs, our rich civic conversation turns anemic. We scrunch our faces i...
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Video game obsession -- is it a new psychiatric disorder?Jun 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NOTE: AMA delegates could vote on the proposal as early as Monday. When Atari's Space Invaders first came out in 1978, I spent so much time playing that video game...