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After squishing through the mud and standing water to feed the livestock, it was finally time to feed me and the SwampMan and way, way past time to go to the grocery store. I was soaking wet with hay stuck all over my jacket, hair dripping under the feed store cap, and boots with that eau de barnyard aroma. What the heck, it’s Friday night and everybody I know should be eating out anyway. The store is a mess. They’re gutting the place for remodeling but remaining open during the process. I thou… Continue

Jacob told his mommy he wanted to talk to MeeMaw. “MeeMaw’s not home”, she told him. He wanted to know where his MeeMaw was. (MeeMaws are not supposed to leave the house to do mundane things like go to work with the only exception being when they are on the way to pick up grandchildren or buy presents. Everybody knows that.) “MeeMaw is out buying a present!” mommy told him. “A present? Why MeeMaw buying a present?” asked Jake. The only possible answer would be that MeeMaw is out buying a prese… Continue

LAS VEGAS — A motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was mysteriously found in his room “barely got by in life,” according to a woman who knew him when he lived at a Utah home that agents hoped to search Saturday. A down-on-his-luck Roger Von Bergendorff lived at his cousin’s home for more than a year before moving to Las Vegas about a year ago, said Tammy Ewell, who lives across the street from Thomas Tholen in Riverton, Utah, and described him and his wife, Ellen, as close fr… Continue

MANAGUA, March 2 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega condemned Colombia's killing of a top rebel commander and said it could hurt the chances of a peace accord. Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary and U.S. Cold War foe who was voted back to power in late 2006, called on Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to seek a peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Colombia's military said on Saturday its troops had killed Raul Reyes, one of seven members of the… Continue

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Seven Jacksonville women convicted of using a national disaster for personal gain have been sentenced for claiming to be among the thousands uprooted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Prosecutors said the women lied to get government aid. Now, two of them, Sharell Lanise Richardson and Rosemary Mackey, are facing jail time.Richardson was recently sentenced to spend four months in prison, pay $8,000 in fines and serve two years probation. Mackey will also spend four months in p… Continue