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Girl Scouts recognized for efforts to feed hungry
The Star, Shelby, N.C.The Girl Scouts in Cadette Troop 12031 don't know what it's like to be hungry, but they care for children who do. "Nobody should have to go home hungry," Scout Sarah Pope, 12, said. With just five members, the troop is small in number, but they have...Tags: Social Organizations, Youth Organizations, Human Interest
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Roanoke's 'Mr. Fitness' Artie Levin lives on in B'nai B'rith Awards
The Roanoke Times, Va.Each year on a Monday night in late May, Cindy Goldstein steps to a podium at the B'nai B'rith Athletic and Achievement Awards banquet and announces the name of a local high school senior. And each year, a grateful teenager takes home the Artie Levin...Tags: Personal Service, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Israel, Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Working to help heart attack victims survive
The Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville, N.J.When someone is having a heart attack, seconds matter in getting them treatment. Having an automatic external defibrillator, or AED, on site can save someone's life. For more than a decade, the Heart Heroes at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center has...Tags: Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey), Atlantic County, Cardiologists, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Heart Attack
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U.S. high court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York endorsed religion by allowing members of the public to open meetings with a prayer. Two residents sued Greece, New York, in 2008, saying it...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court
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New Pew study finds rise in Muslim and Hindu immigrants to the U.S.
A new Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life study of immigration data found a rise in the numbers of Muslims and Hindus coming to the United States legally, while undocumented immigrants are overwhelmingly Christian: The study...
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High court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York endorsed religion by allowing members of the public to open meetings with a prayer. Two residents sued Greece, New York, in 2008, saying it was endorsing...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Religion and Belief, U.S. House of Representatives, Christianity, Trials
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School facilities bill grew from grass roots
Michael Dresser got it right in describing the trajectory of the Baltimore school facilities bill as going from "non-starter to law," but the story goes far beyond the elected and appointed officials who worked hard to make the deals and shepherd the...
Tags: Annapolis, Government, Public Officials, Elections, Politics
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Westboro Baptist Church defector struggles with her past
TOPEKA, Kan. — The house was empty, just as Libby Phelps had planned. Slipping inside that afternoon four years ago, she felt as if her heart would burst through her chest. She peeked through the curtains, terrified that her aunt and uncle ...
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Supreme Court to hear prayer case
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin its monthly meetings with a prayer from a Christian pastor. Thirty years ago, the court upheld a state legislature’s...Tags: Belief and Faith, Church and State Relations, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Litigation
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Changes to psychiatric manual ignite debate over grief, mental illness and faith
St. Louis Post-DispatchEach year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent. Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to psychiatrists, who offer therapy or prescribe...Tags: Chemical Industry, Behavioral Conditions, Pharmaceuticals, Customs and Tradition, Pies and Tarts
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John F. Brinson: U.S. fighting world war against a political ideology
World War I was everybody versus Germany and Austria (1914-18). World War II was everybody versus Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-45.) World War III was the Cold War, with everybody versus the Soviet communist empire (1947-91). World War IV began in 1979...
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In Kansas, it's lawmakers versus the courts
The Kansas City StarKansas lawmakers began the year turning away the chief justice of the state Supreme Court from his traditional speech to the Legislature. The legislative session nears an end with the chief justice accusing a leading senator with political coercion....Tags: Lawyers, Government, Regional Authority, Ray Merrick, Parties and Movements
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