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Accelerating Space Station Science NASA MARSHALL'S upgraded pay load operations integration center enhances station work
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA unveiled today an upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The operation center's new capabilities enhance col...
Notable witness offers $1,000 reward after fatal hit and run accident in North Alabama
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Ardmore, AL - Around approximately 9:30 pm Tuesday night, a fatal hit and run accident occurred on interstate I-65 north just before the Alabama / Tennessee state line. A family was trapped in an S...
Coroner Broderick Smith identifies one of the bodies found in lake
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Cherokee County Coroner Broderick Smith reports that one of the bodies pulled from a vehicle submerged in Weiss Lake off Cherokee County Road 31Thursday, June 13, has been identified. The male body...
Things to do in Cherokee County Wednesday, June 19
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The Family Care Center at 1014 West Main St. includes a Thrift Store open to the public Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Family Care Center helps others by giving clothing, food an...
CELEBRATING, REMEMBERING, FIGHTING BACK. Relay For Life participants light sky lanterns to be released in honor of those who have won their battle with cancer and in memory of those who have lost their battle during the recent 2013 event held at Cherokee County High School Stadium.
CELEBRATING, REMEMBERING, FIGHTING BACK. Relay For Life participants light sky lanterns to be released in honor of those who have won their battle with cancer and in memory of those who have lost their battle during the recent 2013 event held at Cherokee County High School Stadium.
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Relay for Life honors cancer survivors and fighters
by Terry Dean
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What began as one rainy Friday afternoon ended well for the American Cancer Society and the Cherokee County Relay For Life Committee recently as members were pleased to hold the 2013 event outside ...
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« concernedcitizen500 wrote on Monday, Jun 17 at 06:40 PM »
Wrong title. Where's mrs. Kathy's Obituary?
« ceray24 wrote on Tuesday, Apr 30 at 09:16 AM »
The Pole Vault was won by Shane Hall with a 10ft jump.
« dwardawea wrote on Wednesday, Apr 03 at 02:56 PM »
Studies show that wind power is a safe energy source that benefits public health. Wind power developers regularly engage with local communities to ensure approved siting regulations are in place. Plus wind power is approved by a majority of Americans, ranging from 66 percent to 77 percent in support of wind power. Their reasons are simple, by adding wind power we are putting thousands of Americans to work (up to 75,000 currently), saving ratepayers money on their electric bills, and keeping the environment clean for humans and animals alike. A study released in January 2012 by the Massachusetts departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health issued a definitive scientific analysis that refutes several myths about sound perpetuated by wind energy opponents. Two new international studies have concluded that by power of suggestion a “nocebo” effect takes place, where individuals spread the ills they claim to have from supposed wind turbine infrasound. The “Nocebo” (like placebo) is a perceived impact on one’s health as result of hearing complaints about sound emitting from wind turbines that otherwise wouldn’t take place. In one recent study that looked at complaints over a 20-year period at every wind farm in Australia, complaints about sound were concentrated to areas heavily criticized by anti-wind groups. And complaints escalated sharply only once anti-wind groups arrived. These studies add weight to the growing body of credible science, which reinforces the studies and statements from government health organizations around the world that have noted there is no direct health effect associated with the sounds from wind turbines. David Ward, American Wind Energy Association
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Michelle Obama lays roses at bloodiest site along Berlin Wall

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha place flowers as they visit the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse in BerlinBy Sarah Marsh and Alexandra Hudson BERLIN (Reuters) - Michelle Obama and her daughters threaded roses through the narrow slots of a Berlin Wall memorial on Wednesday, honoring those who died trying to cross the Cold War barrier at a site which holds special poignancy in the once divided city. Accompanied by Angela Merkel's husband Joachim Sauer, who like the German leader hails from the former East Germany, President Barack Obama's family toured the Bernauer Strasse memorial where desperate residents of East Berlin once tried to jump from their windows into the western half of the city. ...


2013-06-19 11:24:45 -0400
Confessed killer says did not dictate deal to turn on 'Whitey' Bulger

Undated handout photo of Bulger holding Martorano's youngest son, John Jr., during his Christening ceremonyBy Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - An altar-boy-turned-gang-enforcer told jurors at the trial of accused mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger on Wednesday that he did not set the terms of a deal with prosecutors allowing him to serve just 12 years in prison for 20 murders in exchange for details against his former boss. The witness, John "The Executioner" Martorano, was the first member of the ruthless Winter Hill Gang to testify against Bulger, who is on trial for charges including racketeering and 19 murders that occurred in the 1970s and '80s. ...


2013-06-19 11:25:54 -0400
FBI director says IRS tax exemption probe a top priority

Robert Mueller speaks before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the FBI on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen FBI agents are assigned to the criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's added scrutiny of conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday. "It's a high-priority investigation and it needs to be handled with care, but it also needs to be pushed aggressively because it's a very important case," Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing. ...


2013-06-19 11:57:49 -0400
TWA Flight 800 crash not due to gas tank explosion, say former investigators
The producers of an upcoming documentary on TWA Flight 800—which exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island, N.Y., on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board—claim to have proof that an explosion outside the Paris-bound flight caused the crash. And six former investigators who took part in the film say there [...]
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