As the World Turns.

Some very nice pictures of yesterday's Sparks Hometowne Christmas Parade can be found here, including one of Dawn Wells.
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If you're not going to stick around to cook freedom fries, then get the damned things from McDonald's.
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Death penalty opponents in Maryland are frustrated over the lack of any reforms.
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The judge who threw out Oregon's Measure 37 faces the prospect of being thrown out herself.
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An Iowa woman battles the bureaucrats as she fights to keep her potbellied pig, George, as a pet.
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Athina Roussel Onassis has married her longtime boyfriend, Brazilian equestrian Alvaro Alfanso de Miranda.

Onassis, the only child of the tragic Christina Onassis and granddaughter of shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, is 20 years old (already).

Let's hope she has a much happier life than her mother and grandfather.
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