Nichelle and John Bielinski’s home was one of the hundreds destroyed in a massive Texas wildfire. They sifted through the rubble of their home looking for anything they knew and loved, but all they saw was ash.
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Q: How can you capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of veterans and bikers who come to the D.C. area for Rolling Thunder and Memorial Day weekend? A: Throw them a four-day, patriotic-themed party. Such were the origins of Stars & Stripes & Spokes , a motorcycle rally that runs through Monday on the grounds of RFK Stadium. The four-day event — the first of what organizers hope will become an annual tradition — was the brainchild of three construction managers from Maryland who wanted to give motorcyclists, veterans and others a venue to let loose while they are in town. Read full article > >
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D.C. motorcycle rally called ‘party with a purpose’
The tornadoes weren’t forgotten. The families of the hundreds who were killed in last week’s record outbreak that flattened towns in the South, and the tens of thousands whose homes or businesses were damaged, and the many donors and volunteers who rushed to their aid from around the world didn’t forget about the destruction, even after the United States announced it had killed Osama bin Laden.
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Mayor: Eyes back on tornado disaster
A fierce fight for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is down to the wire, with a liberal challenger leading the conservative incumbent by a paper-thin margin. With the vote difference in the hundreds, a recount is expected. The race between Justice David…
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Recount Likely in WI Court Race
TOKYO – As bodies washed ashore by the hundreds and an emergency deepened at a coastal nuclear plant, millions in Japan on Tuesday faced an unabating sense of apprehension, mourning and astonishment over the emerging scope of this nation-changing catastrophe.
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Japan facing mounting toll in a triple catastrophe
Some of the hundreds of children who were evacuated from Guernsey to Glasgow in 1940 tell BBC Scotland about their experiences.
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Evacuees recall life in Scotland
