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City of Portland's slogan: "Yes. Life's good here"

7:32 PM, Jun 18, 2013

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Everyone knows that what happens in Las Vegas "stays in Vegas." Maine's largest city is launching its own marketing campaign, and wants you to know simply that "Life's good here."

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A vision for improvement

5:31 PM, Jun 18, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) -- Reading the menu for Super Smash Brothers' Melee isn't a problem for Duyahn Walker.

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A cowboy for a day

5:27 PM, Jun 18, 2013

WACO, Texas (KCEN) -- The Dallas Cowboys stopped by Baylor University in Waco, Texas Tuesday and invited boys and girls from West to a free football and cheer camp.

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Out-of-control boat tosses fishermen overboard

5:25 PM, Jun 18, 2013

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (WFLA) -- Troy Petro and his fishing buddy fell overboard "like rockets."

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Better than bacon

5:24 PM, Jun 18, 2013

SEATTLE, Washington (KING) -- It's a different kind of head shop found just down the stairs from the Pike Place market.

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Bullets miss baby

5:22 PM, Jun 18, 2013

DORCHESTER, Massachusetts (WHDH) -- A car riddled with bullets was towed away in Dorchester, Massachusetts Monday not long after a 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend were shot.

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Age is just a number

4:51 PM, Jun 18, 2013

BRADENTON, Florida (WFLA) -- The world's oldest known manatee is gearing up for a big celebration.

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Armed neighborhood

4:47 PM, Jun 18, 2013

GLADSTONE, Oregon (KGW) -- Neighbors are fed up over the crime in their Clackamas County, Oregon neighborhood, and say they're now forced to carry guns.

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Widow finds another woman's name engraved on her husband's tombstone

4:40 PM, Jun 18, 2013

DENVER, Colorado (KUSA) -- A military widow wants to know why another woman's name is engraved on her husband's headstone.

Back on her feet

4:26 PM, Jun 18, 2013

ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) -- Ireland Nugent took her first steps in her new prosthetic legs and feet that will allow the two and a half year old to take them home from a rebound from an accident that nearly took her life.

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Home daycare operator accused of drugging children with spiked pancakes

1:51 PM, Jun 18, 2013

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Westerville, Ohio woman is facing six counts of endangering children after she allegedly drugged children at a child care center operated out of her home.

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Reviving the drive-in

1:27 PM, Jun 18, 2013

WICHITA, Kansas (KSNW) -- They have now been around for 80 years, but although drive-in movie theaters are fewer and farther between, Wichita's Starlite Drive-In is gearing up for future audiences who still crave the experience.

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Million dollar smile for free

12:16 PM, Jun 18, 2013

KENT, Washington (KING) -- A Kent orthodontist is giving four teens free orthodontic treatment in exchange for them giving back to their community.

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Texas mom runs over carjacker after he threatens her children

4:47 PM, Jun 17, 2013

BAYTOWN, Texas (KPRC) -- A family trip to the drug store turned into a life and death struggle for one Baytown, Texas family last week.

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Jet-skiers rescued after a night at sea

4:44 PM, Jun 17, 2013

(WFLA) -- The US Coast Guard used a helicopter from Coats Guard Air Station Clearwater to find for two missing jet-skiers Monday morning four miles west of Hernando Beach.

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Nursing is natural

4:41 PM, Jun 17, 2013

(WFLA) -- A Lakeland photographer is on a mission to change perceptions of breastfeeding.

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Family affair

4:35 PM, Jun 17, 2013

SEATTLE, Washington (KING) -- Among the nearly 5,000 University of Washington graduates this spring are a mother and daughter four decades apart.

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Fire reunites father and sons

1:01 PM, Jun 17, 2013

MESA, Arizona (KPNX) -- When Marcial Verdejo III was 12, his father left their Chandler, Arizona home one day and never came back.

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Dollars for the dead

12:57 PM, Jun 17, 2013

ALBANY, New York (WNYT) -- A recent audit found that the state of New York mistakenly paid unemployment benefits to people that were actually deceased.

After 30 years behind bars, DNA test clears Missouri man of rape

12:53 PM, Jun 17, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) -- A Missouri man who spent three decades in prison for rape he didn't commit is now a free man.

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Rescuer left homeless

12:45 PM, Jun 17, 2013

EL PASO COUNTY, Colorado (KUSA) -- Theresa Strader has dedicated her life to rescuing mill dogs.

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Out of this world discovery

12:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013

AMESBURY, Massachusetts (WHDH) -- Phil Green, a custodian at the Amesbury Elementary School in Amesbury, Massachusetts is a collector of all things unique.

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Nazi among us

12:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (KARE) -- A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

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Bald and beautiful

11:59 AM, Jun 17, 2013

SPOKANE, Washington (KHQ) -- Melanie Strandberg worked as a salon supervisor at La Rive Salon and Spa inside Washington's Northern Quest Resort and Casino.

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Doodle bags bring dad, daughter closer together

7:17 PM, Jun 16, 2013

NASHVILLE -- Nashville architect Mike Smith has drawn a comic story on Sara's lunch bag every Friday for six years, and she's the star of every one.

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Deer challenges man to boxing match

7:09 PM, Jun 16, 2013

(USA TODAY) -- Watch what happens when this man gets a little to close to a deer in the wild.

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Special delivery

4:57 PM, Jun 14, 2013

PORTLAND, Oregon (KGW) -- "Don't worry about me mother. And write often." Sgt. Delbert Steele sent that message through Western Union April 29, 1944.

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Teen saves young sister after nail polish remover causes fire and explosion

4:45 PM, Jun 14, 2013

SACRAMENTO COUNTY, California (KCRA) -- A 9-year-old Sacramento County girl was rushed to the hospital with second-degree burns when a candle fell onto some spilled nail polish remover, causing an explosion.

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Blind hiker and his guide dog trek across the state of North Carolina

4:40 PM, Jun 14, 2013

CRAVEN COUNTY, North Carolina (WITN) -- Trevor Thomas and his dog Tenille are nearing the end of their 950 mile journey across North Carolina, from the mountains to the coast.

More than 10,000 bottles of alcohol were stolen

4:29 PM, Jun 14, 2013

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (WCBD) -- More than 10,000 bottles of alcohol -- gone.