A few days after country singer Julie Roberts lost her record deal, she watched her car float down the block. The Sunday morning floodwaters had risen to the front door of her west Nashville home — a condo she shared with her mother, her sister and four dogs. She remembers the rain slashing away at the rooftop and the eeriness of watching the Mercedes she had just paid off silently wash away. She and her family ran upstairs, snacked on Cheese Nips and waited for a rescue boat. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, has died after a long bout with cancer. She was 58. Dunn died Sunday morning at her home in Orinda surrounded by her family, according to her sister, Debbie Lammers. She said Dunn’s ovarian cancer had returned. Read full article > >

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Ceremony officiated by Sister Helen Prejean.

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UK student Meredith Kercher has been “completely forgotten” in the four years since she was murdered during a year abroad in Italy, her sister says.

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After watching her big brother and sister ride off to school every morning for five years, Christina Trimble was ready for her turn on Tuesday. She was wearing her ruffled jean skirt, a glittery butterfly T-shirt and slightly crimped hair from an overnight experiment with curlers. With her pink lunch bag and rolling purple backpack stocked, she knelt in the front hall of her home in Arlington County, petting her dog Sam while the kitchen clock ticked off the minutes. A little before 8:30, her family huddled on their front porch to snap pictures. Then her sister, Audrey, announced with a third-grader’s confidence, “That’s the squeak of our bus.” Read full article > >

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Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in Grease and Taxi, died Friday due to complications from pneumonia, his sister told The Los Angeles Times. The 60-year-old actor was found unconscious in his home in California on May 10 and had been in a coma…

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The book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God,” by Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, examines different understandings of God.

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Bishops Urge Catholic Schools to Ban a Nun’s Book

The story of a Libyan woman who claimed she was gang-raped by Gaddafi thugs keeps getting weirder: The Libyan government is claiming that Eman al-Obeidi is now free and is in Tripoli with her sister. Four men, including a senior police officer, were…

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The in-laws want to visit the sister-in-law who has a toddler, and stay with the kidless couple.

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In-laws may be annoying, but they also may be right

A Cornishman admits shooting dead his sister’s 10-year-old donkey after an argument.

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The simple mobile game Angry Birds has spawned an entire genre of real-life projects: People recreate the game in felt ( like my sister ) or as stop-motion animation or use it as a metaphor for the Middle East peace process . But this father-son project is the best (i.e. cutest) implementation I’ve seen: It’s a playable birthday cake created with obvious love by tech journalist Mike Cooper for his son. And if you want to try your hand at this, Cooper has now posted a step-by-step guide to building your own Angry Birds cake. Via Joe Brown

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These days it seems every film about Queen Elizabeth II or her family gets nominated for an Oscar, so expect to see more of them in the near future, especially if The King’s Speech wins Best Picture. The latest movie about The Queen was just announced, and it will star Dakota Fanning in yet another story inspired by true events. It’s called Girls’ Night Out, and Fanning will play a teenage Princess Margaret (Elizabeth’s sister) in the “romantic fairytale” that follows Margaret and her sister Elizabeth when they’re allowed out of Buckingham Palace for one night to celebrate V.E. day in 1945. Naturally, their night out will be filled with everything from romance to danger, and it looks to be a very different from the British royalty tales that have… Read More Read Comments

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As a young woman in the 1960s, Sister Cecilia Dwyer came to an isolated Benedictine monastery in western Prince William County to begin her life as a nun.

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From pastures to bedroom community, rapid growth in Linton Hall mirrors state

When Madeline Murphy Rabb of Chicago arrived in Egypt on January 25 with the group Grannies on Safari and her sister, she did not plan to spend her birthday trip witnessing that country’s uprising against its longtime leader, Hosni Murabak. But for the arts consultant and longtime civil rights activist, being in Egypt during the uprising is a birthday gift she will not soon forget, she said by phone from a hotel in Luxor, Egypt on Sunday, read more

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And now, a word about brotherhood from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley: There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit. But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister.” ”Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he continued. “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.” I will let Goldblog’s Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Wiccan readership speak up for themselves (yes, this blog has Wiccan readers; at least two of whom I’m aware). The wonderful thing about the world today is that so many Christians understand, in ways Christians didn’t understand before, that Jesus was a Jew, and a rabbi, as well, that he lived as a Jew, preached to Jews, and died as a Jew, and during his life, and after, his followers were Jews who lived as Jews. I like to imagine that if Jesus came to Earth as Messiah (or back to Earth as Messiah, which is not this blog’s understanding, but one that is respected by here nonetheless) he would look around and ask the leaders of Christianity, “What, exactly, were you all thinking when it came to the treatment of my people?” I would like to imagine that he would feel comfortable in my synagogue, that he would find it far more familiar than he would, say, Robert Bentley’s church.  

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