Sailor Highlights (St. Louis Park Sun-Sailor)

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Becky Kortum of the Hopkins High girls hockey team finished the regular season fifth in metro area scoring with 59 points on 34 goals and 25 assists. Kortum was recently named one of 10 finalists for the Ms. Hockey of Minnesota Award.

KingCo 4A Girls Basketball | Eastlake, Issaquah headed to state (Seattle Times)

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Eastlake senior Jena Boyle has dreamed about a trip to the state girls basketball tournament since fifth grade. She no longer has to dream...

Girls basketball playoffs: Saturday’s roundup

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Roundup of girls basketball playoff games Saturday in Divisions II-AA through Division VI-A: In Division II-AA: Brea Olinda 90, Royal (Simi Valley) 31: Kendall Rodriguez had 17 points and eight rebounds and Jonae Ervin had 15 points and six steals to lead the Ladycats (26-2) past the host Highlanders (16-12). Edison 49, El Dorado 37: Bonnie Samuelson scored 18 points, Christina Marquette had 13 and Kelly Peterson had 10 for the Chargers (22-4) in a victory over the host Golden H

Chandra Levy D.C. Murder Case Breakthrough (Photos)

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The disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy, who at age 24 went missing on April 30, 2001, is back in the headlines once again with an arrest imminent, according to sources in both Washington D.C. and California. The Federal Bureau of Prison's intern met Rep. Gary Condit, D-Cal. through his congressional intern and the two reportedly engaged in a romantic relationship. Her seven month internship was coming to an end and she was about to return to California when she would be graduating fro

Holland, Rice open with win over Venus (Corsicana Daily Sun)

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The Rice Lady Bulldogs picked up their first win of the season Friday, getting past Venus 14-2 at Rice. Katie Holland earned the win, giving up just two hits while striking out six Venus' batters in four innings of work.

Two years without Steve Gilliard

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adapted with minor changes from a diary I wrote last February One day in February 2007, Steve Gilliard wrote his last post for the News Blog and went to the doctor to get a prescription for a cold he couldn't shake. He was admitted to the hospital right away for treatment of an infection of unknown origin, and he never was able to get back on his computer. He died that June. I know I'm not the only former News Blog addict who thinks of Steve every time Republican Party chairman Michael Steele

Prinz and Mäkinen miss Algarve Cup (UEFA News)

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Germany and Finland will be without respective captains Birgit Prinz and Anne Mäkinen for next month's Algarve Cup, in which the UEFA European Women's Championship holders and hosts meet in their opening game.

Sailor Highlights (Excelsior - Shorewood Sun-Sailor)

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Becky Kortum of the Hopkins High girls hockey team finished the regular season fifth in metro area scoring with 59 points on 34 goals and 25 assists. Kortum was recently named one of 10 finalists for the Ms. Hockey of Minnesota Award.

Garney Wilburn Beavers (The Alexandria Town Talk)

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Funeral services for Mr. Garney Wilburn Beavers will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 19, 2009, at Georgetown United Pentecostal Church with Rev. Donnell Spurgeon and Rev. Brian Montgomery officiating. Interment will follow in the Georgetown Cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena. Mr. Beavers, 84, of Georgetown, was born April 16, 1924, to the union of Wiley Beavers ...

Eagan gymnasts ranked in the state's top 10 (Apple Valley - Rosemount Sun-Current)

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State rankings indicate the Eagan High School gymnastics program is reaching unprecedented heights. The Wildcats seldom, if ever, have been included among the state powers in the sport, but last week they were sixth in the Minnesota coaches association's Class AA rankings.

Scoring struggles end Lady Knights' run (Norwin Star)

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Two telling statistics explain why Penn Hills upset Norwin on Saturday in the first round of the WPIAL Quad A playoffs. read more »

Minnetonka girls face big tests (Plymouth Sun-Sailor)

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Going into this week's Classic Lake Conference girls hockey schedule, Minnetonka still had a slim chance to win the championship. However, everything would have to break right for the Skippers.

Weekend Guide (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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A list of things to do this weekend.

Mourning Becomes Electra, with Lili Taylor and Jena Malone, Opens Off-Broadway Feb. 19 (Playbill)

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The New Group's revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Lili Taylor and Jena Malone, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 19.

Learning from the problems of Paris, Texas

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Folks in Tulia, Texas breathed a collective sigh of relief when the trophy for "most racist town in America" passed to Jena, Louisiana. The hardware is back in Texas. Paris, a community of 25,000 in Deep East Texas, now bears the distinction of being America's most racist municipality. Does the shoe fit? Of course not. It's silly to tar a single community as a singular throwback to Jim Crow America. As much as justice advocates love to toss around phrases like "modern day lynching", w

GIRLS SUBDISTRICT TOURNAMENT SUMMARIES (Kearney Hub)

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GRAND ISLAND — Minden opened up a 14-point first quarter lead and cruised from there to down Gibbon in the semifinals of the C1-8 Subdistrict at Grand Island Northwest.

Lady Bulldogs Push Winning Steak to Seven (The Missourian)

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What had the makings of a close game turned out to be no contest. St. Clair (16-6, 2-3) continued its hot play, winning for the seventh consecutive game, in a 66-32 home girls basketball contest Monday over Owensville.

Area teams kick off tourney (Sidney Herald)

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The District 2-C girls basketball tournament kicked off Wednesday with three tight, highly contested basketball games.

Bulldogs turn up the D (The Westerly Sun)

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EAST PROVIDENCE – Impressive man-to-man defense from one end of the floor to the other got Westerly High's junior varsity girls' basketball team rolling in Sunday's Division II state championship game against Portsmouth.

Minnetonka girls face big tests (St. Louis Park Sun-Sailor)

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Going into this week's Classic Lake Conference girls hockey schedule, Minnetonka still had a slim chance to win the championship. However, everything would have to break right for the Skippers.

Eagan gymnasts ranked in the state's top 10 (Apple Valley - Rosemount Sun-Current)

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State rankings indicate the Eagan High School gymnastics program is reaching unprecedented heights. The Wildcats seldom, if ever, have been included among the state powers in the sport, but last week they were sixth in the Minnesota coaches association's Class AA rankings.

Stangs down and out (Redmond Reporter)

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It was do-or-die for the Redmond girls' basketball team last Friday night. After a tough 58-50 loss to Skyline on Wednesday night dropped Redmond from sixth to eighth in the 4A Kingco standings, the Mustangs faced a must-win situation against arch rival Eastlake.

Morgan Murphy @ Whiplash tonight, Parks and Recreation, Patton, Zach Galifianakis dates & other comedy news

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Morgan Murphy the pregnant Hanukkah fairy (more by Tim Griffin) The lineup for tonight's Whiplash show at the NYC UCB Theatre is great as usual. Leo Allen hosts Paul F. Tompkins, John Mulaney, Andrea Rosen, Jesse Popp, and LA's Morgan Murphy. If anyone knows of any other shows Morgan is playing while she's in town, please leave details in the comments. Also coming up at UCB: The Benson Interruption on Wednesday 2/18, and A-Side / B-Side with Kurt and Kristin on Thursday. Patton Oswalt pl

Sturdy KSU defense fails to grab victory on road (Akron Beacon Journal)

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Sturdy KSU defense fails to grab victory on road

Shawn Williams: A blessing and a curse for Paris, Texas

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This is the content of an article the I wrote which appeared in Sunday's Points Section of the Dallas Morning News. Thanks to Nicole Stockdale for allowing me to state my opinion. February 15, 2008 My hometown's biggest blessing is also its biggest curse. There's something about the name Paris, Texas, that is simultaneously romantic and amusing. A town that fancies itself as the second-largest Paris in the world – complete with a miniature Eiffel Tower – leaves itself open to a certain am

Minnetonka girls face big tests (St. Louis Park Sun-Sailor)

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Going into this week's Classic Lake Conference girls hockey schedule, Minnetonka still had a slim chance to win the championship. However, everything would have to break right for the Skippers.