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Domestic violence is on the rise in Shawnee County

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue.Permalinkhttp://www.ktka.com/news/2009/oct/20/domestic_violence_rise_shawnee_county/  Note: ktka.com does not necessarily condone the comments here, nor vouch for the factual claims made therein. Nor do we review every post.Oct. 20, 2009 at 4:44 p.m.

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Iowa Gay Couple Reflects on 6 Months of Marriage

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Chuck Swaggerty and Jason Morgan were one of six couples who were parties to a court case leading to the April 2 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in the state. They believe they were among the first same-sex couples to marry in the state, journeying a county north to be married shortly after 8 a.m. April 27 in the Plymouth County Courthouse in Le Mars.

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Lynches River County Park

Monday, October 26, 2009

Last Saturday, we loaded up the family and drove over to Lynches River County Park for the Fall Frenzy Festival. I want to commend the organizers of the event for an amazing job! Everything, other than food, was absolutely free…and who doesn’t like free entertainment? We listened to a local elementary school chorus and watched a dance school perform before the kids realized there was a hayride about to leave.

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Experiments with truth: 10/23/09

Friday, October 23, 2009

Two climate activists were arrested in Brisbane, Australia yesterday for shackling themselves to a coal conveyor belt and briefly halting the loading of coal onto a Taiwanese vessel. Meanwhile 16 kayakers attempted to block the ship before being escorted away by four police boats. Four climate activists chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia yesterday to protest mountaintop removal mining.

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WRTV – Thousands Take Advantage Of Free H1N1 Clinic

Thursday, October 22, 2009

October 23, 2009About 2,500 Attend Clinic At Mall take advantage of free H1N1About 2,500 people were inoculated Thursday morning in Marion County’s first H1N1 flu clinic. The vaccine, in both shot and nasal injection form, was given out for free over a four-hour period at Lafayette Square Mall, WRTV6News’ Tanya Spencer reported.A long line began forming at 3 a.m., five hours before doors opened, packed with people worried that they might not get another chance to get the vaccine.“I want to make

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VACCINE SHORTAGE: School H1N1 Clinics Canceled — But Limited Doses Offered Saturday

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Fairfax County Health Department will open a mass H1N1 vaccination clinic for children 6 months to 36 months of age and pregnant women on Saturday, October 24, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center (12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035).

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Racist N-Word Sign Attacks Obama’s Health Reform

Saturday, October 10, 2009

(ChattahBox)— Patrick Lanzo likes to generate negative attention, by openly displaying his ugly racism and hate in the most vile and public ways possible. The owner of a roadside bar in a small Georgia town, Lanzo recently erected a giant sign in front of his Ku Klux Klan themed speakeasy, with the message: “Obama’s plan for health-care: Ni**er rig it.” Lanzo’s dank wood-framed Georgia Peach Oyster Bar is located on a country road in Temple, Georgia, Paulding County, about 45 miles from Atlan

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Flu-Like Illnesses Widespread; Vaccine Soon

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Almost 20 percent of all emergency room visits in Alabama are patients suffering from flu-like symptoms, and health officials are reporting a high number of cases in Florida. The Escambia County (Fla.) Health Departments says that most forms of influenza currently being diagnosed in the county are H1N1 — commonly known as swine flu. Santa Rosa County has not been spared from the swine flu, with the county’s health department reporting Tuesday that a 52-year old man died from H1N1 earlier this mo

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