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HOUSTON – A thousand miles couldn’t keep them away.Bob Kittredge, 73, and his wife drove from Port St. Lucie, Fla., this week to attend the National Rifle Association’s annual convention. They are just two of the more than 70,000 people expected at the event, which opens Friday and runs through Sunday.“We meet a lot of people who think the same way we do,” Kittredge said.It will be a nine-acre gun...
A rare May snowstorm that's hit the Plains and Upper Midwest was expected to continue into Friday and even Saturday in places, the National Weather Service said.However, it added that the “rather unusual weather pattern” was “beginning to abate over the Upper Midwest.”A number of winter storm advisories were in place early Friday for parts of Missouri, Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa...
My name is Mommy. At least 95 percent of the time it is -- other times, I'm lucky if my rambunctious preschooler isn't calling me by my first, middle and last name, like I do to her when she's on the hot seat. I'm a stay-at-home wife and mom to two little girls, age 4 years old and 6 months. And while I’m like many other moms across America, there is one little twist in my daily routine that may s...
If you're a smoothie lover, take note. Eight spots in your kitchen -- including the indispensable blender and a few other unexpected areas -- may be alive with foodborne pathogens potent enough to sicken you and your family, a new study from a leading safety organization has found.Blenders, rubber spatulas and can openers were tainted with traces of E.coli, salmonella and listeria, according to s...
John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has died. He was 80.Williamson died of cancer March 24 at a hospital in in Reno, Nev., according to his wife, Barbara Williamson. The pair had lived on a Northern Nevada ranch for the past 18 years, taking in abandoned lions, tigers...
It is responsible for an estimated half-trillion dollars in federal spending every year, is hated by nearly everyone who studies it and is based on an American lifestyle older than the space program.Yet the figure known as the “poverty line” is almost certainly here to stay. That’s partly because a more accurate measure of who is poor could add millions of Americans to the rolls — something few la...
Ten years after their breakup, a woman showed up on her ex-boyfriend’s porch, demanding $20, according to police.When police responded and charged her with first-degree criminal trespass and second-degree breach of peace, they served her with four outstanding warrants.Police responded to Hillside Avenue in New Haven, Conn., at 8:41 a.m. on Thursday after a complaint was made and a 53-year-old man ...
