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Tougher DUI bill headed for Brownback's desk
KWCH 12 Eyewitness News"I always just try to be optimistic about everything. I figure if you only think about the good things, that's the best way to be about it." That's what Colby Liston told us in September, a little more than a week after a car crash cost him both legs....Tags: Drunk Driving, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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SWIMMING: Imperial Valley Desert Aquatics swim team hosts second annual meet
Staff WriterBRAWLEY — Samantha Estes, an Imperial Valley Desert Aquatics swimmer, has already qualified for consideration to the 2013 Far Western Championship. “What I do in the pool is a reflection of how hard I work,” said Estes about her...Tags: Parkinson's Disease, YMCA, Swimming, Sports
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Oscar Pistorius' reps name substance found in his bedroom
Oscar Pistorius' representatives named the substance found in his bedroom after the shooting death of his girlfriend as Testis compositum on Wednesday and said it is an herbal remedy used “in aid of muscle recovery.” A product called...
Tags: Lawyers, Medical Procedures and Tests, Reeva Steenkamp, Steroids, World Anti-Doping Agency
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Families worry about possible Russian adoption ban
To Heather and Aaron Whaley, they're already parents to a 4-year-old girl living in a Russian orphanage off the Sea of Japan. The Frederick couple have never met the child, but they've given her a name — Addie. They've hung pictures of her in a...
Tags: Barack Obama, Lawyers, Judges, Spina Bifida, George Washington University
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Amputee a driving force in getting people with disabilities moving
Army veteran Melissa Stockwell has one strong, healthy leg. The other is a scarred, 6-inch stump that she has proudly nicknamed "Little Leg." The Bucktown woman throws birthday parties for this shortened limb, always dresses it in her favorite colors...
Tags: New York City Marathon, Triathlon, Amputation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions
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Martin Guitar makes custom guitar for blind veteran
Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strumming a few random chords, then moving into a sampling of Neil Young. The sounds take him back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and sat around a...
Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Music
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Ritzhenhein runs his race, is top U.S. finisher in Chicago Marathon
Dathan Ritzenhein refused to get carried away. Nine miles into Sunday's Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Ritzenhein found himself running faster than he planned and only some 10 seconds behind the lead pack, much closer than he expected at that point....
Tags: Dathan Ritzenhein, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Spina Bifida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Liliya Shobukhova
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With Oscar Pistorius, his legs are least important
LONDON — Oscar Pistorius marches into Olympic Stadium with a limping gait of an old man, and the only thing you see, the only place you look, the only thing that matters, are his legs. They are blades. Goodness, they really are blades. Their...
Tags: South Africa, Birth Defects, Oscar Pistorius, Track and Field
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Noga Nir-Kistler to be featured on WPHL-17 Tuesday morning
Groller's CornerNoga-Nir Kistler, the Whitehall High graduate and Salisbury Township native who will be representing the U.S.A. in the 2012 London Paralympic Games in London, will be featured on this morning's "Eye Opener" show on WPHL-17. The show runs from 6-8 a.m.... -
Whitehall grad Noga Nir-Kistler to have her bronze-medal effort shown on national TV
Groller's CornerI have known Fred and Noga Nir-Kistler for several years now and could not have been happier to learn on Wednesday that Noga won the bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke while swimming for Team USA in the Paralympic Games in London. Yes, a gold or... -
Disabled athletes shine in Baltimore Running Festival
Erin Michael ran the relay race in the Baltimore Running Festival last year and saw a few disabled racers — but thought there could be more. The 29-year-old therapist at Kennedy Krieger Institute encouraged and then helped train nine patients who...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Health and Medical Professionals, Spine, Physical Therapists, Baltimore Running Festival
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Paralympian Jessica Long goes gold-metal glam
Jessica Long will tell you: After capturing even more Paralympic gold in London, she couldn't wait to get back to Baltimore for a table heavy with steamed crabs and a pint of Ben & Jerry's. But these days, Long's reality is a touch more glamorous. You...
Tags: Adoption, Michael Phelps, Awards and Prizes, Coca-Cola, Family
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