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How Did Vikings End Up in My Family Tree?
Tracing Your Roots: A black reader wonders about a DNA test that turned up Orcadian roots.
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What Was the Double V Campaign?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A paper's call for blacks to support the WWII effort had a twist.
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Old-School Tips for Better Finances
Mixing Dad's advice with sound financial planning can help us regain stability.
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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
Ask Demetria: A suddenly insecure boyfriend may mean that something's changed in your relationship.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
Shriver devoted her life to improving the welfare of the mentally disabled and founded the Special Olympics as a showcase for their abilities...
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Katherine Jackson Objects to Estate Executor's Plans with AEG Live
The dispute between Michael Jackson's mother and the men Jackson chose to run his estate after his death threatens to delay or derail plans for a documentary of the pop singer's last days...
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Torture Prosecutions May Target Low-Level Offenders
Because, obviously, the higher-ups didn't know nothin' about it...
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Mentally Ill Offenders Burden Juvenile System
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders...
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Swine Flu Prepares to Make a Comeback
And just when we were getting over being shook when somebody sneezed in a public place...
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Lucky Number 70: Tiger Wins at Bridgestone
The victory marks the 70 time in his PGA career that Tiger Woods made other golfers feel inadequate...
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40 Inmates Hospitalized in CA Prison Riot
The trouble started after a heated discussion over Obamacare...
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A Saint Goes Marching In
Derrick Tabb of New Orleans is giving kids a good old-fashioned tune up: With a tuba...
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VIDEO: GOP to Heather Blish: Stop Snitchin'
A "mom from a few blocks away" ran a bit of roughshod over an Iowa town hall meeting and it seems she was not just a concerned citizen...
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Jobless Rate Falls from 9.5 to 9.4%
Time to party! Not really, but let's take any improvement we can get...
