Horoscope • Jeraldine Saunders (San Jose Mercury News)
BIRTHDAY GAL: TV host Lisa Ling was born in Sacramento, Calif., on this date in 1973. This birthday gal served as co-host of the popular morning show "The View" from 1999 to 2002.
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Turkey's odd man of the sea (Asia Times)
FETHIYE, Turkey - Spending his life sailing the turquoise coves, inlets and bays off Marmaris on the Mediterranean coast in the southwest of Turkey to clear them of marine debris, Imdat Avci is a one-man environmental movement.
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Driving Mr. Biden: The JFP Interview with Obama’s Veep Pick (Jackson Free Press)
In 2006, the Jackson Free Press drove then-presidential hopeful around the city to get him off the beaten path and talk about issues facing everyday Mississippians.
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Purrfect storm (The Age)
A friend for life - and even death - the cat from Japan accompanies consumers all the way from raspberry-scented childhood to trade-marked tomb.
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Police report: Bailiff adjusted belt, and backup weapon fired (New Hampshire Union Leader)
The report said a court officer wounded by his own firearm in the district courthouse last month was considered qualified to handle a gun.
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Vermilion woman sues over fenceless pool in which her son drowned (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
  ELYRIA — The mother of a Vermilion toddler who drowned in a swimming pool is suing the owners of the house for more than $2 million.   The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, accuses Barry and Phyllis Anderson of negligence for failing to have a fence around their pool.   Issaiah Hasan, who was 20 [...]
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Astrological questions (Chicago Sun-Times)
''My birthday is 12/8/1964. I was with someone who I thought was my soul mate, a Libra, but he went back with an old girlfriend. We are still in contact almost daily, although he is passive-aggressive -- contacting me and then waiting for me to contact him.
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Sofia News Agency - Archive - 24 August 2008 (Novinite.com)
The Chair of Bulgaria's Electronic Media Council Mariya Stefanova confirmed Sunday that the largest private national TV station in Bulgaria bTV would be sold by its owner - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation - by the end of 2008.
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Sofia News Agency - Archive - 20 August 2008 (Novinite.com)
The unemployment rate in Bulgaria was 5,95% in July, as announced by the Bulgarian Employment Agency, which has registered 210 less unemployed people compared with June of 2007.
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Sofia News Agency - Archive - 22 August 2008 (Novinite.com)
The Sofia Police arrested Friday 21 prostitutes at the Macedonia Square in downtown Sofia including seven transsexuals. ... A 52-year-old native of the city of Varna was sentenced to 15 days in jail after stripping in a snack bar in the Danube city of Ruse.
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