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Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, center, talks with Garrison Command Sergeant Major Bruce Lee, left, from Rock Island, Illinois, inside a dining facility at Warner Barracks, a U.S. Army Garrison in Bamberg, southern Germany, on Friday ...

Jill Biden meets troops in Germany to mark US Independence Day - Newsday

Sgt. Dan Petersen stood by a cannon in the Confederate Artillery Camp and explained the nuances of the "3-inch ordnance rifle" before him. Clad in a uniform from the Civil War, and serious as a Yankee sally, the La Center, Wash., resident explained ...

Re-enactors brave heat, cannon fire - Statesman Journal

Remember the nursery rhyme about Jack and Jill going up a hill and fetching a pail of water? Well, now Jack and Jill are fetching a lot more than water. A national community service organization -- which took its name from the nursery rhyme -- Jack ...

Detroit hosts Jack and Jill conference - Detroit Free Press

Jill Biden, the wife of the U.S. vice president, observed U.S. Independence Day by visiting American troops in Germany en route to an education conference in Paris. Biden stressed Friday that supporting soldiers and their families was important to ...

Jill Biden meets troops in Germany - Daily Herald

Aiming for a home-away-from-home atmosphere rather than a dog-pound feel, the new Foothills Animal Shelter started construction of a 30,000-square-foot facility in Jefferson County last week. With a projected cost of more than $9 million, the shelter ...

Larger, homier animal shelter on the way in Jeffco - Denver Post

It's been bonus time for most of Lake Central's girls bowling state champs in recent weeks. When anchor bowler and senior-to-be Kaity Galka committed as Valparaiso University's first major recruit from Northwest Indiana -- she's won the Post-Tribune ...

Sexton, Larson to join Galka on VU women's bowling team - Post-Tribune

Attorney and banker Sanford E. Takiff was a board member for the Bulls and White Sox and a close friend of their chairman, Jerry Reinsdorf, for more than 50 years. "In September of 1957, I walked into my first class at Northwestern Law School, and I ...

Lawyer on Bulls, White Sox boards - Chicago Sun-Times

Graduates The following local residents graduated from Harding University this spring: Lindsey Carter of Murfreesboro, Robert Coggin of Murfreesboro, and Jill Welker of Murfreesboro. Carter also made the Dean's List. Harding University has more than ...

Class reports - Daily News Journal

WASHINGTON — When President Obama talks up the family-friendly vibe at the White House — the nightly family dinners, the flexibility to attend school presentations and join impromptu plunges in the pool with his girls — his chief of staff, Rahm ...

Family Friendly’ White House Is Less So for Aides - The Ledger

He wore white sunglasses with a blue tint, his dreadlocks pulled back in a ponytail, a white T-shirt and baseball pants. After Ramirez uttered that first word in an early afternoon press conference Friday at Petco Park, he should've shed his ...