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PERU, Ind. - Prison inmates are learning Braille so they can translate printed school books for children at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. "When you look ...

Inmates translate books to Braille for blind kids - Chicago Tribune

(WTNH) - Children's author and illustrator, Katie Davis is out with her first novel. But what makes this book so different is that its part novel and part comic strip. The name of ...

The Curse of Addy McMahon by Katie Davis - WTNH.com

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) - Three months after four bodies were found shot execution-style in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch north of Dallas in 1984, chemical salesman Lester Leroy ...

Questions raised about capital case 24 years later - Guardian Unlimited

Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a ...

Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now' - Guardian Unlimited

Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool ...

Fifteen Minutes on Wikipedia is Like a Semester at Yale, if Yale was a ... - Kotaku.com

The rendering of Adolf Hitler in wax at the Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds provoked controversy even before it opened. And shortly after the museum opened to the public this ...

Hitler waxwork loses its head - Guardian Blogs

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It’s a wonder vacation Bible school made it out of the 1960s. Back in the days of black-and-white TV, churches offered children lemonade, cookies and flannel ...

Vacation Bible school gets facelift - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport . No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the ...

'Nobody, nothing was sacred' - Chicago Tribune

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - When Nelson Mandela's daughter reels off her favorite childhood treats, it is as much a nostalgic menu as a log of the households where she was ...

Food is metaphor for Mandela's struggles in book launched with a ... - PR Inside

Serena Williams will face sister Venus for the third time in a Wimbledon final after bringing Zheng Jie's incredible run to an end with a 6-2 7-6 (7-5) win. The sixth seed powered ...

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