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Don't let dream house annoyances ruin your sleepAug 26, 2017 6:00 am - Q. My husband and I found the house of our dreams this year. I looked at it myself first and brought him back for a look, and we made an offer that was accepted. We had ...
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Grammar Moses: Did you see the ellipse? Unlikely.Aug 26, 2017 1:00 am - On Monday, while everyone was marveling at the big doings in space, I was shaking my head in disbelief. I heard two people ask others in passing, "Have you seen the elli...
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Life with disabilities inspires newfound abilities in othersAug 26, 2017 1:00 am - Strangers in a freshman-year seminar at Elmhurst College in 2015, students Lili Herrera and Katie Mantych were about to join together on a life-altering path. "It starte...
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Inspector vetoes open-door policyAug 25, 2017 6:00 am - Q. Last month we finally got our house into escrow. Everything was moving along smoothly until the buyers hired a home inspector. According to the inspector, the downsta...
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'Thrones' finale Sunday, wrap-up show WednesdayAug 25, 2017 6:00 am - HBO's shortened seventh season of "Game of Thrones" ends at 8 p.m. Sunday with "The Dragon and the Wolf," an 80-minute episode that promises to unite many of the show's ...
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What's it take to be in the home equity elite?Aug 25, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Americans readily gossip about home values - "Did you hear the crazy high price the house down the street sold for?" "Did you hear how little our neighbors ...
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Spat over fat led to workplace killing in Hampshire, police sayAug 25, 2017 5:30 am - What led an employee at a Hampshire meatpacking plant to, according to police, throw a knife into a co-worker's chest earlier this month, killing the man in one of the s...
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North: How about World Series rings for Wrigley vendors?Aug 25, 2017 5:00 am - The Chicago Cubs World Series ring giveaway has gotten out of hand, but as the saying goes — no good deed goes unpunished. The Cubs are handing out rings like popcorn, ...
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What it'll be like to play in world's biggest golf tournamentAug 25, 2017 1:01 am - MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - For 50 years now Myrtle Beach has been one of America's foremost golf meccas for one major reason. The owners of its nearly 90 courses know how to w...
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Let's erect monuments to the best among usAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - In the mid-'90s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I went to an old park in Moscow where the Russians had deposited pieces of the monuments of the "great" communist lead...