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Sally MacKenzie, a volunteer with the QEH, counts pennies during the telethon. Pennies Care campaign will buy a crib for the hospital.

Dr. Richard Keidan, left, and Jon Levin, both of West Bloomfield, go on an afternoon ride.

This Wednesday, March 28, 2012 file photo shows an entrance to the 360-acre Meadow Event Park site, in Doswell, Va.

A As the July 1 deadline for dozens of state parks to close looms on the horizon, a number of efforts to stave off those closures are coming to a head.

Marblehead resident Dave Wilson set up plastic chairs around a table, preparing to lead a church service for 12 men Wednesday evening.

Lee Ann Hopkins spends each day in a tiny brick-walled office crammed with books and fliers on FreeState Legal Project, of which she is the executive director - and only employee.

Jamie Thomas said she won't be able to hire an intern due to changes in the program.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blakehas donated use of her office's skybox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to 27 nonprofit or charitable organizations this year, including her daughter's school, according to a list provided by the mayor's office.

A nonprofit group that has lobbied hard for a law to let corporations use money for private school tuition scholarships instead of taxes could ultimately get a revenue boost from the proposal.

With grant money the Eisenhower Foundation will be adding some local staff and will also double the amount of funds allocated to travel grants for research by scholars visiting the Abilene archives.

Trumpets blared as the jazz tempo rose. Pairs of dancers swirled in synchronized step.

A Marine veteran wants to place a flag on each of the grave sites at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in Grand Prairie.

Vice President Joe Biden Friday delivered a deeply personal and at times emotional address to survivors of slain U.S. military service members, recounting his struggle with intense grief after his wife and daughter were tragically killed in a car accident almost 40 years ago.

A judge has canceled a hearing to determine whether California University of Pennsylvania president Angelo Armenti can remove his personal property from his former office, because state officials have given him more time to do so.

The charity for troubled youths started by Jerry Sandusky more than three decades ago - and through which the retired Penn State assistant football coach met the boys he is charged with sexually abusing - said Friday it is seeking court approval to shut down and transfer its programs to a Texas-based youth ministry that serves abused and neglected ... (more)

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The Kopernik Observatory and Science Center has been awarded $2,000 from a Manley's Mighty Mart service learning project.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has recently awarded more than $800,000 dollars in grants to two Yakima Valley nonprofit groups.

Harry Trimble III, 64, has served multiple prison terms for sex crimes against local kids.

About half all Egypt's registered voters had cast ballots through the second and final day of the country's historic presidential election, a top elections official said Thursday.