4th of July News

St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said enforcing the parish's ban on fireworks during the July 4th and New Year's holidays "would take the National Guard" to be successful.

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Organizers of a Fourth of July parade in central Maine are cancelling this year's procession after last year's event was marred by bloody fistfights, public drunkenness, drug paraphernalia sales and pickup drivers burning rubber.

A proposal to reduce the number of days to legally ignite Fourth of July fireworks in unincorporated Pierce County went down to defeat with a thud Tuesday.

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Each time a society comes to view itself as superior to to others, it has entered its own downfall.

Moreno Valley is on track to resurrect its Fourth of July celebration, scrapped last year because the city lacked funds.

Independence Day is over five months away but the Bristol Fourth of July Committee is at work sponsoring a new specialty plate for Rhode Islanders.

In the first wartime Independence Day since Vietnam-and the first ever after a direct attack on the United States-Bladen County residents are more reflective and enthusiastic than frightened about July Fourth.

To celebrate his bar mitzvah, my son wants to go on a family cruise instead of having a party.

The Fernley City Council, serving as the Fernley Convention and Tourism Authority Board, approved three grant requests for events in the area last week.

The King statue, inscriptions or no inscriptions , will never be anything but a hopeless clunker.

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Iran's president Ahmadinejad- completing the Cuban leg of his latest Latin American tour- reported, after meeting Fidel Castro, that he was happy to find the semi-retired Cuban leader "safe and sane." Here is the US, the phrase "safe and sane" traditionally has been used to promote caution for celebrants of Independence Day on the Fourth of July.