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Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska will spend the next year as Miss America after besting 52 other pageant hopefuls at Saturday’s event in Las Vegas. The 17-year-old Gering resident and Scottsbluff High School student played the piano during the competition. Her platform issue was tackling eating disorders. She hopes to attend law school, become a judge and eventually a politician, according ... Read More »

There’s now one very lucky little girl with a new guardian angel — massacre victim Christina Taylor Green, whose organs the child received in a lifesaving transplant. “This is exactly what Christina would have wanted, to be able to help someone else,” said her aunt, Kim Green. The organs were donated to a stricken young girl from Boston. “Christina will ... Read More »

Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut. “On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” he wrote his father in June 1944. “After we passed Washington there was no discrimination at all. The ... Read More »

Mavanell “Mavy” Stoddard was surprised to find love again late in life. After her husband died, she moved back to her hometown of Tucson and rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart. But now she finds herself a widow twice over. Her new husband, Dorwan Stoddard, was one of the six people killed more than a week ago when ... Read More »

In yet another sign of significant recovery during a remarkable week, the condition of gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was upgraded from critical to serious Sunday after a procedure to remove her from a ventilator was successful. Giffords has responded from the moment she arrived at the emergency room Jan. 8, at first just squeezing a doctor’s hand. Then she ... Read More »

TALLAHASSEE — All told, lawmakers have filed three separate bills that seek to restrict local governments from regulating firearms, stop doctors from even asking patients about them and that allow for licensed gun owners the right to wear firearms outside their clothing — including on college campuses. The bills were all drafted prior to last week’s shooting in Arizona, and ... Read More »

Iran’s nuclear empowerment has been bothering US and the Israel so much that they sink so low, that the actually planned and carried out a act of cyber-terrorism against Iran. For a country that ‘appears’ to be doing so much against terrorism really needs to get its head straight and know what terrorism really means. US and Israeli intelligence services ... Read More »