Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether a section of commuter train tracks was sabotaged after Metra workers discovered a dozen railroad spikes missing in an area on Chicago’s South Side.
The spikes hold down metal plates that bind the rails to wooden ties underneath.

“If a sufficient number of spikes are [...]

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Associated Press
Mychal Bell exited the courthouse, free for the first time in 10 months. He was cheered by a crowd that included the Rev. Al Sharpton.
But Bell’s case is far from over: he’s due back in court next week.
The prosecution of Bell, one of the black teenagers known as the Jena Six, [...]

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Associated Press
PHOENIX — A 14-year-old Lake Havasu boy has become the sixth victim to die nationwide this year of a microscopic organism that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain.Aaron Evans died Sept. 17 of Naegleria fowleri, an organism doctors said he probably picked [...]

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By Catherine Donaldson-Evans

Tricycle Press book illustration

A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash — and a lawsuit — against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.
But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at [...]

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FoxNews
BOULDER, Colo.  —  About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting “one nation, under God.”
The students say the phrase violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
They also say the daily reading [...]

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Hannity’s America
Al Gore caught on tape using a fuel INEFFICIENT private jet…
Click here – then click on “High Flying Hypocrisy?” link on page to view

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Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – New-homes sales tumbled in August to the lowest level in seven years, a stark sign that the credit crunch is aggravating an already painful housing slump.
Sales of new homes dropped by 8.3 percent in August from July, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, driving down sales to a [...]

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By CHERI CARLSON- Scripps Howard News Service
Cecilia Gauer approached home-schooling with caution. The Moorpark, Calif., mother knew her daughter was struggling in a traditional public school, but Gauer worried about failing as her teacher.
She found a perfect fit in the Moorpark Unified School District’s home-schooling program, where credentialed teachers team up [...]

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Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — Roman Catholic bishops in Connecticut have agreed to let hospital personnel give emergency contraception to all rape victims, reversing their decision days before a new state law requires it.
The church, which runs four of the state’s 30 hospitals, had fought the state law requiring medical personnel [...]

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MichNews.com
“. . .Father, forgive them. . .” Luke 23:34
When we know the cross, we know forgiveness.
From that holy Body flows the blood which cleanses from all sin.

Just as Jesus looked upon the fellow to His right and then the other to His left, forgiving them, so Jesus looks upon our repentant hearts. He [...]

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OneNewsNow
Conservative activists devoted to countering the homosexual agenda say it’s a sad state for America when a major U.S. city bans the U.S. Marines from filming a recruiting commercial, but is permitting absolute debauchery to take place this weekend.

Editor’s Note: This story contains descriptions that may be offensive to some. It is [...]

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Christian Newswire
“Me & You, Us, Forever” is the story of a 47 year old Christian man, on the other side of an unwanted divorce, who reminisces about his old high school girlfriend and first love of 30 years ago.
So how does a small company with no big name actors and very little [...]

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ABC News
During his tour of duty in Iraq, Army Sgt. Johnny Kempen thought he’d seen everything, until he met a little girl who saw nothing at all.
Kempen noticed one day, as soldiers threw candy to children in a tense Baghdad neighborhood, a little girl standing out.
“Watching her trying to get the candy and [...]

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King James Version
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
New International Version
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

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DAILY NEWS

HANOVER, N.H. – Sen. Hillary Clinton scored with a Democratic audience last night by contradicting her husband’s belief that a terrorist could be tortured to foil an imminent plot – but what observers didn’t know is she was contradicting herself, too.
“It cannot be American policy, period,” Clinton (D-N.Y.) told [...]

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