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'We got him': Boston Marathon bombing suspect held
Associated PressWATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) - A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard Friday and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation...Tags: Sports, Ben Affleck, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Murder, Students
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Updated 8:57 p.m.: Boston police: Bombing suspect is in custody
Associated PressWATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) - Boston Police say a 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead. Police announced via Twitter...Tags: Sports, Ben Affleck, Students, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Corning honored to be called 'disruptive'
CORNING, N.Y. — Being called “disruptive” is a good thing for Harrodsburg’s Corning plant. The company says great innovators are willing to challenge traditional thought. They take chances. They try new methods. They invent...
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The party of Lincoln plays the race card
Contributing columnistSomething very shabby happened at an Aug. 21 Tea Party rally on the steps of Kentucky’s Capitol. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, state Sen. Damon Thayer (R-Georgetown) told the crowd that Obama should be sent back to Chicago or Hawaii,...Tags: White House, Justice System, Elections, Judges, Politics
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FUN TO CREATE: MIT graduate teaches art in Forkland
jbrummett@amnews.comFORKLAND — Visual artist Pat Williams isn’t interested in working exclusively in any one medium. Not really. She works with oils, pastels, watercolors and acrylics as well as bamboo and collage. She does admit she particularly likes pastels,...Tags: Artists, Arts, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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Carrus to participate in MIT research program
George Rogers Clark High School senior Justin Carrus has been selected to attend the Research Science Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this summer. Each year, 80 high school students — 50 from the United States and 30...
Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Science
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BUILDING STEAM: Summer program gives students, teachers unique experience
Staff WriterWithin the classrooms of Danville High School, learning didn’t cease during the summer months. Danville Board of Education, with the help of faculty from surrounding schools, is holding the program Experience Danville STEAM — an acronym for...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Engineering, Students, Teachers
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What's Happening at the Library?
Clark County Public LibraryI found the topic for the beginning of today’s article by being a friend of the Clark County Public Library on Facebook. If you have not done that yet, take a few moments to do so the next time you’re in your Facebook account. It will...Tags: Libraries, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Book, Charles Dickens, Fiction
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Students learn computer programming with video game design
msimpson@amnews.comStudents who spent years avoiding lessons with under-the-table Game Boys will turn as green with envy as Yoshi when hearing about the curriculum in Scott Walker’s eighth-grade technology course at Bate Middle School. There, video games are the...Tags: Video Games, Services and Shopping, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Writer strikes a home run with 'Liars Bench'
The Winchester SunWhen Ronnie Payton began working on the script for “The Liars Bench,” he didn’t have to look very far for inspiration. The baseball-themed play draws heavily on Payton’s childhood memories of playing in local youth leagues and...Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment, Celebrities, Human Interest, Film Festivals
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Obituary: Donald E. Kelly
SPRINGBORO, Ohio — Donald “Donnie” Kelly, 61, died May 22 in Springboro, Ohio. He was born in Springfield, Ohio and was a graduate of Garrard County High School. He attended MIT while serving in the Marines during the Vietnam era. He was...Tags: Ohio, Human Interest, Texas, Charlotte, El Paso
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Coastal cities and climate change: You're going to get wet
BEFORE Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale’s concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida’s coastal highway. A month later another series of...Tags: Oceans, Battery Park, FEMA, Battery Park City, Hurricane Andrew (1992)
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