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FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2008 Dear Heloise: If you want to have a really clean bathtubREALLY CLEAN BATHTUB, use shampoo to clean it occasionally. It will shine like nobody’s business. Rinse well with hot water. -- Bea Dodson, Rapid City, S.D. Absolutely -- it’s cheap and safe way to clean shower doors and walls, too. Be sure to thoroughly rinse the shower or tub after using any cleaner. And if nasty mildew is a problem, tr...
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Oddities
Pa. man walks 25 miles to court for DUI sentencing CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — A man facing sentencing on a drunken-driving conviction couldn’t get a ride to court. So he started walking. And walking. Stephen Shoemaker was scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for sentencing. Shoemaker, 33, of Shippensburg, doesn’t have a car or driver’s license. So he started hoofing it to the courthouse at dawn. He kept walking for about 25 miles in 90-plu...
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Heloise
FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2008 Dear Heloise: Do you have trouble reading the directionsREADING THE DIRECTIONSwhen you get a new prescription? Just ask the pharmacist for the large-print edition, and he will give that to you as well as note it for your future prescriptions. Also, to light a low candle in a glass container, turn the container on its side and then light your candle. There’s no danger of burning your hand this...
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Mom in NY finds snake in crib, coiled around baby’s leg BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who awoke to her baby’s cries was shocked to peer into the crib and find a foot-long snake wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter’s leg. Cari Abatemarco said she was visiting family in the Long Island town of Brentwood last week when she made the startling discovery. “Once I lifted her up and the snake fell off of her, she stopped crying. But then I wa...
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Ask Amy
Dear AmySTUDENT HAVING TROUBLE STEERING CLEAR OF DRUGS, BOOZE ON CAMPUS DEAR AMY: When I started college last fall, I was nervous about making the transition from high school to college. High school wasn’t exactly the best time of my life -- I never had a lot of friends, so I was worried about this big step in my life. I was fortunate to find a good group of friends in the first week of school. Throughout the year, though, my friends start...
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Celebrities
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a pair of videos saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush? “I know my opinion doesn’t matter more than anyone else’s and I just make films,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. “But I do feel you have to speak out, and that’s what I’m doing.” The 30-second videos, which went out to members of the ...
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New Yorkers 0-for-3 in 2008 presidential race
Devlin Barrett Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Damn Yankees. After 19 months of primary campaigning, that seems to be the attitude of the nation’s voters. A year ago, three New Yorkers — Republican Rudy Giuliani, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and independent Michael Bloomberg — loomed large in the presidential sweepstakes. With Clinton’s departure from the race, they officially have gone 0-for-3 — a shocking bagel hole for the Big...
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Other Editors
The Garden City Telegram, on using city funds for holiday celebration: Garden City and Finney County earned praise last summer for making sure the community had a Fourth of July fireworks show. Unfortunately, the Finney County Commission hasn’t appeared as eager this year to do the same. The city and county stepped up last year to fund the bulk of the $12,000 contract for the local fireworks show after the Garden City Area Chamber of Comm...
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Huntington mayor opposes pay hike for himself HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia city council is hoping to overcome opposition to giving the mayor a raise from the proposal’s biggest foe: the mayor. Huntington Mayor David Felinton has vowed to veto a proposal to raise his pay by nearly $28,000 to $90,000. He currently earns about $62,000. Felinton says it sends the wrong message to the city’s employees, and that the town of 49,000 h...
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Review board’s job isn’t glitz and glamour
Carl Manning Associated Press Writer TOPEKA (AP) — Deciding who will manage the four state-owned and operated casinos in Kansas won’t be a task filled with glitz and glamour. More likely, it’ll be filled with non-glitzy topics such as revenue estimates, population projections and targeted markets. By the end of September, the decisions will have been made by the seven-member Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board on the developers for a si...
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Goody’s Family Clothing files for Chapter 11; Pittsburg store to close
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Privately owned Goody’s Family Clothing Inc., a moderately priced retailer operating primarily in the Southeast, said Monday it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will close 103 stores and an Arkansas distribution center. “It is important for you to understand that Goody’s is not going out of business,” Chief Executive Paul White wrote in an open letter to customers posted on the company Web page, whe...
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Celebrities
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott are parents again. The “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum and McDermott welcomed their second child — 6-pound, 8-ounce Stella Doreen McDermott — at a Los Angeles hospital Monday, her publicist, Meghan Prophet, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. It’s the second child for the 35-year-old actress and the third for McDermott, who has a son from a previous marriage. The couple, who w...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pamela Anderson may have a need for speed, but her favorite charity has a need for funds. That’s why the former “Baywatch” babe is selling her prized Dodge Viper and donating the proceeds to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “I’ve been working with PETA for 15 years,” Anderson told The Associated Press. “They’re kind of my ethical advisers. With them, I see actual results.” The 40-year-old actress recently he...
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Veterans to honor war dead with ‘The Reading’
TOPEKA (AP) — A group of veterans is organizing an event this weekend to pay tribute to the men and women of the military who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. The organizers don’t want today’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to end up like veterans of the Vietnam War, forgotten for their sacrifices. “When we came back from the war, a lot of people ignored us because we were fighting an unpopular war,” said Terry Houck, a veteran fr...
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Oddities
Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction DETROIT (AP) — A meteorite resembling Michigan’s Lower Peninsula has been sold at auction, but bidders weren’t quite as smitten with the mitten as the seller expected. The 75-pound nickel-and-iron meteorite sold for $20,000 Sunday at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. It had been expected to sell for $32,500 to $40,000. Michigan native Darryl Pitt, the meteorite’s owner, says he is disap...
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Heloise
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Ask Amy
Dear AmyGAY MARRIAGE LITMUS TEST FOR FRIENDSHIP IS OFFENSIVE DEAR AMY: I am a gay man living in California. My partner and I have raised a family and have been together for 26 years. The California Supreme Court recently stated it is illegal not to allow gays to marry. We are thrilled. Now that we are aging Baby Boomers, we need the protection and rights that married couples have. A proposition to change the California constitution to sta...
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Celebrities
RIAA honors Jewel for 18 million in U.S. album sales NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jewel has been honored by the Recording Industry Association of America with a career milestone plaque commemorating sales of more than 18 million albums in the U.S. Jenny Alves, RIAA’s coordinator of artist industry relations, surprised the 34-year-old singer Thursday as she prepared to sign autographs at the Country Music Association festival. “This is awesome....
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Oddities
Typo on high school diplomas embarrasses Ohio principal WESTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — A Cleveland-area principal says he’s embarrassed his students got proof of their “educaiton” on their high school diplomas. Westlake High School officials misspelled “education” on the diplomas distributed last weekend. It’s been the subject of mockery on local radio. Principal Timothy Freeman says he sent back the diplomas once to correct another error. When the di...
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Overscheduled teens down energy drinks, with some risk
NEW YORK (AP) — Between homework, cheerleading and working at Wendy’s, Megan Ward was tired from being always on the go. So last year the 16-year-old began drinking a Red Bull or Monster energy drink before school and sometimes a second one before cheerleading practice. “I was trying to get energy,” says Megan, of Castle Rock, Colo. “In the morning, it gives me that extra boost to get me up and get me going. It wears off, and then I’m ready...
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