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More rain set to increase nation’s suffering
The flood disaster engulfing Pakistan and its government is threatening to unleash misery for millions more people as heavy rain begins to fall across the country.

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Pregnant moms who overeat could make obese babies
Study says larger babies at risk of being heavier later

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Springs couple welcomes quadruplets
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — More than a week ago, Jennifer Last gave birth to her first child. And her second. And third. And fourth. It wasn’t exactly what she and her husband, Justin, bargained for in the way of family planning.

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Government plan to scrap free milk for under-fives
The Government is considering scrapping free milk for under-fives as part of the spending cuts, it emerged today.

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Cameron rejects school milk cuts
Coalition proposals for scrapping free school milk descended into confusion after Downing Street insisted the cut would not go ahead.

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Knock the Socks Off Poverty raises more than $10,000
Grand Island area residents and Tom Dinsdale combined to “Knock the Socks Off Poverty” by raising a combined $10,400 to be given to the Grand Island Public Schools Outreach Center, which will provide vouchers for homeless and near homeless students in the district to buy socks and underwear.

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Knock the Socks Off Poverty raises more than $10,000
Grand Island area residents and Tom Dinsdale combined to “Knock the Socks Off Poverty” by raising a combined $10,400 to be given to the Grand Island Public Schools Outreach Center, which will provide vouchers for homeless and near homeless students in the district to buy socks and underwear.

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Front Porch
People will have a chance Thursday to learn more about one of the more rare and interesting neighbors we have in Western Washington: wolverines.

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Knock the Socks Off Poverty raises more than $10,000
Grand Island area residents and Tom Dinsdale combined to “Knock the Socks Off Poverty” by raising a combined $10,400 to be given to the Grand Island Public Schools Outreach Center, which will provide vouchers for homeless and near homeless students in the district to buy socks and underwear.

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Wal-Mart makes price cuts to combat rivals
Wal-Mart is counting on $1 ketchup bottles and sub-$4 cases of Coke to get its low-price mojo back.

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Connect with nature this spring at Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
After one of the fiercest winters on record, local residents are invited to experience spring and the awakening of the natural world with all its beauty and amazement at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum. Just minutes from center city Philadelphia and only a short trip from throughout the Delaware Valley Heinz Refuge is a veritable “island of nature” in the midst of a sea of …

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On the Grapevine
Bowls open session — Cave Hill Bowling Club is holding an open session every Saturday until the end of March, from 2pm to 4.30pm. Related Stories Park gets £670k fund boost Youths’ behaviour at local church ‘appalling’ No case for closing library, says Dodds MLA and minister to tackle planning row On the Grapevine

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Donating school supplies helps Vietnam, Iraqi literacy
By: Carrie Gilliam In 1967, Gary LaGrange’s military unit pushed in a house in Vietnam. The unit was used to searching houses with no residents, but this house was different. In a corner of the house was a little girl on her knees crying. “This is wrong; we sho…

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St. Paul schools detail $33 million cuts
With the district facing a $27 million budget gap, school closings, staff layoffs and changing “school choice” are under consideration.

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Mt. Olive school union rejects wage freeze as district stares down cuts
MOUNT OLIVE — The Mount Olive school district’s teacher and administrator unions rejected a request for a one-year wage freeze, but agreed to switch health care providers to save nearly $3 million under the proposed $74.8 million school budget.

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