When Mackenzie Casey and Jen Morrison put on a Saturday morning garage and bake sale they mean serious business the kind of seriousness that brings in $2,125 an hour. Hundreds of families across Utah Valley filed through a crowded Eagle Mountain school gymnasium and dropped $8,500 on donated furniture, cloths and toys in support of a local child with a rare illness.
Garbage bags, children's toys, lawn care equipment and beer bottles are strewn about this east Medford house, valued at $453,000. Inside there's a piano; outside, there's a swimming pool filled with murky green water. There's so much junk the city has posted notice that the accumulation is unlawful.
Among the jobs little boys dream of †policeman, fireman, bulldozer driver †airline pilot long held the added virtue of satisfying grown-up dreams: pay that reached $300,000 a year, 20 days a month off work, the prestige of one day commanding a $200 million airplane, and a lush retirement at age 60.
On Saturday night, a joyful and relieved crowd of family members and friends welcomed home a missionary group from New Bedford's Nazarene Christian Academy that left Haiti after days of riots in the capital city of Port-au-Prince halted business and left
At the first Soggy Doggy Day at Sugden Regional Park in East Naples, scores of pet owners joined their canines during a four-hour frolic organized by the Collier County staff that opened the beach on the north side of the lake to dogs.
Nearly a year after Jamie Bishop's slaying, Michael Bishop has surrounded himself with memories of his son. The bits of ideas for short stories Jamie wanted to write someday. The digital collages that testify to Jamie's budding artistic talent.
Vietnamese toddler Phung Thien Nhan, not yet two years old, is a born survivor whose horrific story and cheeky smile have touched hearts and drawn offers of support from across the nation.
"An Interview with Death" Christopher Skibbe & Eric Crowley (Narrative, 10 minutes): "A local news crew has a sit-down interview with the Grim Reaper."
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