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Excerpts from 'September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril'
The Confederates captured their first Union capital today — in Abraham Lincoln’s birth state. Frankfort, Ky., was a coveted prize for the South. But even greater rewards were in view of two Confederate armies racing north toward the Ohio...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abraham Lincoln, Wars and Interventions
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Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power, leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air conditioning or clean water. It will be a few days...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Floods, Bobby Jindal, Hurricanes
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Federal grants to boost Bay pollution trading efforts
The Chesapeake Bay region's fledgling pollution "trading" programs are getting an infusion of federal funds aimed at encouraging farmers to participate. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it's awarding five grants totaling $2.6 $2....
Tags: Water, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Pollution, Annapolis
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How low can the St. Joseph River go?
South Bend TribuneFOUND: Rusty bicycle frame, thoroughly encrusted with sediment, stones and half of a clamshell because it's been bathing in the St. Joseph River -- until now. Draped with dried river plants. Like artwork. Now exposed to the air for the first time in God-...Tags: Droughts, Rivers, Weather, U.S. Geological Survey, Hydroelectricity
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Dogs, guns and pies: All part of the job
Melvin G. "Mel" Trimble Sr., a colorful and loquacious character I got to know some years ago, had one of the more interesting and necessary jobs with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and with its successor company, Chessie System. It relied upon his...Tags: Travel, Pies and Tarts, Services and Shopping, Realty, Career and Workplace
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Aten Place barn opens for the season Saturday night
BOYNE FALLS -- Tim Grimm will open the 2012 summer concert series at Aten Place on Saturday, June 30. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in the oak frame barn with seating for 180. Grimm is replacing Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines who had to cancel...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Cherry Hill, Harrison Ford, NBC (tv network), Dennis Quaid
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Indiana fines bridge contractor $10K in man's death
MADISON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana regulators have fined a construction company $10,000 for violations found following the death of an Ohio River bridge worker. Fifty-year-old Roger Cox of Austin, Ind., died in May after becoming trapped between an...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Health and Safety at Work, Fines, Punishment
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Quarter of Indiana now in 'exceptional' drought
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The federal government's latest drought update shows that Indiana's drought has worsened in the past week and that a quarter of the state is now in the grips of an exceptional drought. But Thursday's update of the U.S. Drought...
Tags: Droughts, Weather, Natural Disasters, Weather Reports
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Teens arrested in strangulation of homeless man
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police have charged two Evansville foster siblings with murder in connection with the strangulation of a homeless man. Eighteen-year-old William Jeffery Hurt and 19-year-old Deadra Hurt were being held Friday at the...Tags: Murder
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Singing the praises of Cincinnati
CINCINNATI — Because of its hilly topography, this city has been called the "San Francisco of Ohio." And this July, those hills will be coming alive with the sound of choral music. From July 4-14, the World Choir Games, also known as "The...
Tags: Baseball, Travel, Chili, Museums, Artists
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Enough with the 1812 revisionism
David Brandenburg's letter, published in The Sun on July 4 ("The truth about the War of 1812"), shows the danger of amateur historians who take small facts and from them draw a revisionist fallacious interpretation of the American historical narrative....Tags: Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Francis Scott Key, War of 1812, World War II (1939-1945)
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First drought this year hits state crops, lawns
Tribune reporterEven as the heat wave subsided this week, conditions for cornfields and lawns continue to be affected by what meteorologists are calling Illinois’s first drought of the year. Two-thirds of the state is experiencing at least a severe drought, and...Tags: Droughts, Natural Disasters
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