- Growth is a slow process for Oden (Yahoo! Sports)
Patience is a necessity for the young Blazers center, who continues to adjust to life in the NBA.
- Grandma, guardsman, girl: War's toll felt at home (The State)
When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside. She didn't sleep much during the four months Spc. Jobel Barbosa spent in Iraq in 2004, driving a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle with the North Carolina National Guard. The idea of her only son, born when she was just 15, spending an entire year overseas was too much. So when Barbosa - a ...
- Grandma, guardsman, girl: War's toll felt at home (The Charlotte Observer)
(By KEVIN MAURER and MITCH WEISS, Associated Press Writers) When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside. She didn't sleep much during the four months Spc. Jobel Barbosa spent in Iraq in 2004, driving a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle with the North Carolina National Guard. The idea of her only son, born when she was just 15, spending ...
- Grandma, guardsman, girl: War’s toll on families felt at home (Columbia Daily Herald)
HAMLET, N.C. — When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside. She didn’t sleep much during the four months Spc. Jobel Barbosa spent in Iraq in 2004, driving a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle with the North Carolina National Guard.
- Hog farms have changed with the times (Portage Daily Register)
These days, "fat pig" is an oxymoron. Guest speaker Jeff Swenson told members and guests of the Portage Rotary Club Monday that a portion of pork tenderloin is as low in fat as a comparable-sized portion of skinless chicken breast.
- Grandma, guardsman, girl: War's toll felt at home (AP via Yahoo! News)
When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside.
- Danville fifth-grader pens children's books (Contra Costa Times)
Fifth-grader Paris Morris launches children's book series about having twin siblings. Some say such books are needed for a growing market.
- CHAPTER 1: Sexual assaults on female inmates went unheeded (Detroit Free Press)
For years, rights groups warned that male guards were sexually assaulting female inmates in Michigan prisons. For years, those warnings went unheeded. Now, state taxpayers may pay a price too. More than 500 women are suing. They stand to collect $50 million so far, with more trials to come.
- MULTIMEDIA: A Grandmother's duty (The Salisbury Post)
By KEVIN MAURER and MITCH WEISS Associated Press Writers Click Here to view an interactive featuring video, biographies and an audio slideshow on ...
- Grandma, Guardsman, Girl: War's Toll Felt at Home (ABC News)
The toll at home: NC grandma, girl cope as new roommates while guardsman dad goes to war
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