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Associated Press Members of the Black Mohawk and Black Foot Hunters Mardi Gras Indians start the first marching parade through the Fair Grounds Friday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell.
Jazz Festival finishes first weekend
NEW ORLEANS — Jazz horns, Cajun fiddles, zydeco washboards and rock guitars — they’ll all be heard at the same place for the next two weekends when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicked...
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Children’s lives changed by electronic arm
DETROIT — Five-year-old Annabelle Murphy of Sterling Heights, Mich., who was born without a left hand and forearm, doesn’t consider her electronic arm anything out of the ordinary. Sensors tucke...
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Associated Press Snarf, a 10-year-old Japanese Chin, smiles for a photo in New Albany, Ind. When the ASPCA took over his care, he had severe dental problems. The ASPCA veterinarian removed all his teeth except his lower left canine. He was adopted by Scott Franke and his wife, Andy Kyle.
Pet rehab helps transform four-legged survivors
LOS ANGELES — Snarf was underweight with a heart murmur and a possible ulcer when he was rescued from a Kentucky puppy mill. He had hookworm, fleas and ticks, infections in his eyes and ears, red s...
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Associated Press Members of the Savoy Music Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam respond to the crowd while performing at the Louisiana Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2011 in New Orleans.
Guitars, fiddles greet Jazz Fest early birds in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Music fans poured through the gates at Friday’s start of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, staking out spots to catch performances by The Beach Boys, Steel Pulse and Irma Th...
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In pursuit of finer things: Men find fashion
NEW YORK — Don’t be fooled by the old “my girlfriend bought me this” line. Fashion insiders say men are taking a keen interest in how they dress — and that means developing their own shopping ha...
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Beach Boys close first day of Jazz Fest
NEW ORLEANS — The Beach Boys provided a perfect ending to a perfect opening day at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The recently reunited group sang about fun in the sun Friday to mas...
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Associated Press The Aloft hotel in Harlem neighborhood of New York gets a three-diamond rating from AAA and a three-star rating from Priceline, but gets a 4.5 rating from TripAdvisor travelers.
Rest stop: A primer on hotel categories, star ratings
NEW YORK — Ever wonder why the same hotel gets four stars from one website and three stars from another? What’s the difference between a bed-and-breakfast and an inn? What exactly is a boutique hot...
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Births
Spegal — Ethan Lane Spegal, son of Brett and Samantha (Madden) Spegal of Bardwell, March 20, Western Baptist Hospital. Grandparents are Gail and Roger Bishop of Bardwell. Great-grandparents are Nan...
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Associated Press Tourists visit, escorted by South Korean soldiers, the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday.
War zone or tourist trap?
PANMUNJOM, Korea — Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no-man’s land that — just barely — keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sid...
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Associated Press Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, the National Zoo's giant pandas, play in their yard on April 20, 1972 in Washington.
National Zoo marks 40 years of pandas
WASHINGTON — The National Zoo is celebrating 40 years of giant pandas. Monday was the 40th anniversary of the day that the pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Ma...
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