Reno natives Nick and Julia Smith had planned to take their 20-month old son, Adian, on an Easter egg hunt Sunday morning, but instead, Julia went into labor with their second child.
As they were leaving for the hospital and walking across the grass of the Silver Lake Apartments, Julia informed Nick it was too late and the baby was crowning.
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One-time SLA member Sara Jane Olson is going to challenge her return to prison for an additional year.
It appears she was released the other day because of a clerical error.
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An internet hoax cost a Jacksonville, Oregon, man much of what he had.
A few items have been returned. I hope those who took his property and didn't return it are charged with theft.
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Senators Brownback and Kennedy hope to curb eugenic abortions with a bill they have sponsored that would provide legal assurance to prospective parents of information that is complete and informed about disabilities such as Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, and other disabilities so that they don't feel they are pressured into getting abortions.
I don't have any objection to this. It is rather disturbing when prospective parents do opt for abortion because they are afraid of having kids with disabilities.
Down syndrome and even cystic fibrosis are not the death sentences they once were. Down syndrome children can live well into middle age, as opposed to just a couple of decades ago, when average life expectancy was only 25. It is not unheard of for CF children to live well into their twenties and thirties (average is 36.8 years in the U.S.) when in times past they rarely made it past their teens (fifty years ago, the average life expectancy for CF infants was only 6 months).
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Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches has been retired from racing. She will be bred to Giant's Causeway.
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It is possible Mia Beth Freeland, 18, got her just desserts, or else she was fleeing from an abusive situation.
It could go either way.
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There are ways for people to stay out of the grave while working graveyard shift.
I never could handle even swing shift when I did it years ago. It was just too much to handle, and I had trouble staying alert.
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