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See Video: Triple Crown Hopeful Bids Farewell To Baltimore
<!– Images –> I’ll Have Another’s connections loaded their Preakness Stakes winner onto a van Sunday morning at Pimlico Race Course to begin their journey to Belmont Park in their continuing quest to sweep racing’s Triple Crown. In front of a record crowd of 121,309, Reddam Racing’s chestnut colt edged Bodemeister by a neck [...]
Marine Awarded Navy Cross in Twentynine Palms – KMIR
Marine Awarded Navy Cross in Twentynine Palms By Angela Monroe CREATED May. 18, 2012 Tweet Share Email Print <!– DEBUG: Lib.Desk.PagePart.ContentItemVideoPlayer 1: argContent.id = $getVideoContent_originalContent.id argContent.overrideStillVideo = $getVideoContent_originalContent.overrideStillVideo useVidePlayer = true argVideoId = 1646584403001 argVideoTags = false useImage = $useImage argMaxWidth = $argMaxWidth argPlayerId = 991774010001 argPlayerKey = AQ~~,AAAAAyz2bGk~,Zn96CuMjjKOcGtpuz-TeFk9IaNcCO4kW videoStillURL (String) = http://foreignmoon.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/0ab03_13639249001_1646593440001_70282B54571A49B49332B9D94A7B478A.jpg thumbnailURL () [...]
Fire wrecks house in northwest Lincoln
Leaking propane and 35 mph winds stoked a fire that gutted a two-story home in northwest Lincoln on Friday afternoon. The fire started at about 1:20 p.m. under the backyard deck of a two-story home at 5125 W. Sparrow Lane. Kirby Cunningham, 28, was at his home across the street and heading to work when [...]
Death loses its sting
Before her Alvernia Seniors College class, Sister Jean Jacobchik made a joke. “I see everybody was dying to get here,” she said, eyeing a packed classroom of senior students arriving early for a course on near-death-experiences. A ripple of nervous laughter filled the room; people then seemed to relax. The speakers: Dr. Deborah Hagey, 60, [...]
Column: Reddam finds new life with I’ll Have Another
He is a longtime owner of horses and an even longer-time bettor of horses, a man who likes to compare the anticipation, exhilaration and intoxication of the sport to pulling the handle of a slot machine. So, after his horse triumphed at the Kentucky Derby this month — and he knew he was holding a [...]
Bernie’s the lightest little dark comedy in Texas
AUSTIN, TEX. — Like most who have had the pleasure, Jack Black will never forget the time he met Bernie Tiede. It was in a maximum-security prison — where Tiede is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 81-year-old widow Marjorie Nugent — and Black was about to pass out. Related Film review: [...]
Marathon men count down to London
It would be hard to find a more congenial trio of competitors than Meb Keflezighi, Ryan Hall and Abdi Abdirahman, who will represent the United States in the Olympic men’s marathon in London on Aug. 12. All three are Olympic veterans and their mutual respect and affection was evident when they sat down with us [...]
Reddam savors glorious moments
He is a longtime owner of horses and an even longer-time bettor of horses, a man who likes to compare the anticipation, exhilaration and intoxication of the sport to pulling the handle of a slot machine. So, after his horse triumphed at the Kentucky Derby this month — and he knew he was holding a [...]
Electronic Daisy Carnival to electrify MetLife Stadium
Electronic Daisy Carnival to electrify MetLife Stadium Photo credit: Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim (Getty) The Electronic Daisy Carnival, a three-day music fest, is expanding to the New York City region and it’s not leaving its fire twirlers and stilt walkers behind. EDC NYC is an expanded version of the 16-year-old event where an out-of-mind, [...]
Cancer survivor starts San Jose’s Amgen Tour of California stage with a bang
Click photo to enlarge Peggy Liou isn’t a fan of bicycle racing. She doesn’t ride any kind of two-wheeled contraption. But there she was Tuesday morning, happy to be up on a platform at the starting line of the Amgen Tour of California with a small pistol in her hand. When the petite, 57-year-old pulled [...]
