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August 31, 2008
A North Carolina man who was hit in the left eye by a foul ball at a recent minor league game will lose the eye. Carroll Master, his wife and two-year-old son, and about a dozen others went to a Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball game Friday where Master was struck upon returning to his seat from a concession stand.
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August 30, 2008
A man dubbed the 'bling-bandit' for the flashy watch and ring he wore while robbing banks is now in custody, but he's not the usual suspect. The bling-bandit turned out to be Athelson Kelson, 59, a retired New York Police Department detective and a decorated Vietnam Veteran.
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August 27, 2008
A minor league baseball fan won a prize Monday that he hopes to be able to wait before cashing in on: an all-expenses paid funeral. Euclid resident Ed Struna won a free casket, burial vault, visitation and other standard funeral features, all provided by Monreal Funeral Home.
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August 14, 2008
Famous chef Julia Child and other notable Americans have been revealed as members of the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, which operated during World War II. Details about her spy background and nearly 24,000 other OSS employees were revealed in newly released documents, withheld from public view as classified records for decades by the CIA, according to reports from the Associated Press.
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August 4, 2008
Topics toronto, jeans, people, fashion, clothing, dress, house, globe, sarah, baseball, signs, image, music, club, black, young, university, office and city
A dress code banning urban wear at the Brunswick House, a popular nightspot for University of Toronto students, is generating controversy. The decades-old establishment has signs which explicitly prohibit baggy pants, do-rags, bandanas, track-suits, jerseys, tank tops and reverse baseball caps. Most of these items are apparel associated with the black community, raising the specter that the ban may spark controversy.
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