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Kids love the internet. Now there is an on-line magazine or "e-zine" that addresses health information for 9-13 year olds called "BAM!"

We had an interesting event in Gainesville the other nite. It was called "The Tornado of '36: A Homecoming" and more than 200 people turned out in lousy, rainy weather to participate and see what it was all about.

It is the world

Losing a child is one of the saddest tragedies a parent can experience. Friends want to be supportive, but the right words can be hard to find.

There are a few rays of hope in the struggle to reduce violence in America.

As I was reading the paper today, I very well could have been reading the same headlines that were splashed across the front page in 1865:

We must consider the facts when it comes to deer: if deer are stressed by drought, an increase in their population or a loss of browsing area, they can become a menace.

There is no doubt about it: America is on a new course in international relations since 9-11. We declared war on terrorism, knowing neither who the terrorists were nor what countries they represented, if any.

Jack Nicholson is that all-too-rare kind of actor who can generate forty-four million dollars in an opening weekend, despite the caliber of the picture involved.

A free press is one of the hallmarks of American democracy, and it is protected by the first amendment of the Constitution.