Women In Politics

Lawmakers divided about ending ban on gays in military
WASHINGTON — Ohio’s U.S. House members split along party lines about allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.

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UN scrambles to deliver aid to homeless Haitians
A huge crowd fights for aid by a line of U.N. peacekeepers at a distribution point outside the Presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 25.

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Happy 50th in Roxbury!
The Board of Trustees of the Roxbury Public Library celebrated 50 years of community support for the library at the 50th Anniversary Open House on Friday, May 7.

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Redwood Falls, Minn. — RVHS senior Brandon Whitehead has had a plan to become a chef for some time. “I have always been interested in culinary arts,” said Whitehead, adding he has been the main meal preparer for his family for some time.

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Victims of the 1980 eruption
If Mount St. Helens hadn’t erupted May 18, 1980, 57 people, mostfrom the Lower Columbia region and Pacific Northwest, would nothave perished from the immediate effects or their injuries.Alphabetically, the victims were:

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Booth, Kregeloh named MVPs
For a second straight year, Stroudsburg shortstop Morgan Booth was named the Mountain Valley Conference’s Outstanding Player by the conference’s coaches.

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Leinster prepare for huge shake-up
AMID ALL the gnashing of teeth in Munster circles about the end of an era being nigh, in fact there will be a more marked end of an era in Leinster in two weeks.

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In ’09, Ohio lawmakers spent $2M on mass mailing
WASHINGTON — The next time you get a glossy brochure in the mail from your congressman or congresswoman, you might as well read it. After all, you paid for it.

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‘Mummy’ Merkel battered as Germans lose faith in EU
GISELA and Susi, thirtysomething civil service secretaries, were shivering over their sausages in what the tabloids labelled the “most miserable May of the millennium” and planning their summer holidays. “I know where I’m not going,” one of them said.

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Religion: Speakers and topics
St. John’s Episcopal Church, the Rev. Eyleen Farmer will preach at the 8 and 10:15 a.m. communion services Sunday on Last Chance. Child and youth ministries will have a recognition breakfast at 9 a.m. The adult forum is on What The Gospel Means?

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