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MacKale McGuire closes his eyes while Haley Butkovich, a fellow senior and cast member, applies eye makeup before their school's dress rehearsal of Disney's "High School Musical" on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 in Cadillac, Mich. McGuire, a cancer survivor whose left leg was amputated above the knee in 2018, was one of the lead actors in the musical. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

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Resilience Story: Forget about the leg, just watch him dance

By MARTHA IRVINE MARTHA IRVINE - Associated Press
Mon,03/07/22-11:04PM, 574 Reads
CADILLAC, Mich. (AP) — The high school choir room buzzed with spontaneous song and silliness before the show. Their recent rendition of Disney’s “High School Musical” was the students’ first chance to perform live since the pandemic shut down the world two years ago.
Everyone was thrilled to be together again, but nervous, too.
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The Nation's Weather

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Sun,10/09/22-3:30AM, 573 Reads
The Nation's Weather for Monday, October 10, 2022
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
Storms tomorrow will continue to bring a risk for flash
flooding from California to western Texas. Thunderstorms
will also begin to spread northeastward into Oklahoma and
southern Kansas. In the Northeast, a few lake effect
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Double-digit seed Texas A&M beats LSU, reaches SEC semifinals

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Fri,05/26/23-6:58PM, 573 Reads
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Hunter Haas hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning after striking out in each of his first three at-bats and No. 10 seed Texas A&M beat LSU 5-4 on Friday night to advance to the semifinals of the SEC Tournament.
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This photo released by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, shows the cache of weapons and ammunition that authorities recovered from the car of a man who opened fire on Fargo, N.D., police officers on Friday, July 14. One officer, Jake Wallin, was killed and two others were injured before a fourth officer shot and killed 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat. (North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation via AP)

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The Fargo shooter used a binary trigger. Here's what to know about the device that's worrying police

By CLAUDIA LAUER CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press
Fri,07/21/23-5:30PM, 573 Reads
Sitting in a parked car with an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, the man who fired on police officers in North Dakota earlier this month chose to use the one gun in his vehicle that was modified with a binary trigger. The device allowed the gun to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon.
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