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It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - There were no "guetapens" here for 14-year-old Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, who won the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night when she correctly spelled the word, which means a trap or ambush.

It was a frequent stop for Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, while on his way to Washington.

PHILADELPHIA, Tenn. - The Loudon County Commission budget committee on Tuesday reversed its decision to pull funding for the town of Philadelphia's fire department.

As a congregation, St. John United Methodist Church in Maryville has sent disciples into Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and they support the work of others in places like the Philippines and Latvia.

A sign greets motorists to Philadelphia, founded in 1820, on Pond Creek Road in Loudon County.

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A spherical sculpture that endured the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center is close to getting a temporary new home, but officials aren't saying where just yet.

They didn't look or act like the police officers in the famous black-and-white film clips, wading into crowds with billy clubs flying.

A $17 million settlement has been reached in the wrongful-death case of two Hungarian students killed in a duck boat collision with a barge in Philadelphia.

Police have filed kidnapping charges against the wife of a man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman's two youngest daughters.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons says Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, has died at age 47.

A former Iowa letter carrier was found guilty Friday of sending dud pipe bombs to investment advisers, along with threatening letters signed "The Bishop," in a scheme to boost the value of shares he owned in two companies.

The alumni election for three seats on Penn State's Board of Trustees has drawn more attention than last month's Pennsylvania presidential primary.

Police say the administrative assistant of a Maryland church was killed and a church rector was wounded in a shooting.

An Ohio zoo plans to transfer five exotic animals back to the widow of a suicidal animal owner who released dozens of wild creatures last fall.

The National Day of Prayer took on special significance for Loudon County residents and supporters who showed up at several organized prayer gatherings Thursday to make a statement about their right to pray in public.

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