Take me out to the golf course
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The Wilson Daily Times, N.C.
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May 23--The broad smile plastered across Kent Montgomery's face on a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon was a clear indication that yet another North Carolina Baseball Museum Celebrity Golf Tournament was a hit. "This is the best and biggest one we've had and we've got beautiful weather!" said Montgomery, a member of the museum's board of directors and the primary organizer of the tournament, now in ...

May/23/2013 02:03 PM

Profit of Sterling Jewelers' parent sparkles; up 11 percent for quarter
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The Akron Beacon Journal
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May 23--Signet Jewelers Ltd., parent of Akron-headquartered Sterling Jewelers, said Thursday that net income was up 11.3 percent for the first quarter, with healthy sales increases at the Kay and Jared jewelry store chains. Earnings were up to $1.13 per share, beating analysts' expectations. CEO Mike Barnes said in prepared comments that the company, the largest operator of jewelry stores in ...

May/23/2013 12:30 PM

Falcons lead Waynesville 4-0 in suspended game
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Dayton Daily News, Ohio
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May 23--CARLISLE -- Mother Nature won Wednesday. Fenwick High School's baseball team was merely winning. The Falcons held a 4-0 lead over Waynesville in the bottom of the fourth inning in a Division III sectional final at Carlisle when inclement weather prompted the contest to be suspended. "It's a good start, but there's a long way to go," Fenwick coach Bob Sherlock said. "We tell our kids ...

May/23/2013 08:24 AM

Rocklahoma 2013: Crowds come for the music, stay for the party
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Tulsa World, Okla.
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May 23--Rocklahoma started as a hair-metal nostalgia fest, but in its seven years has morphed into a destination festival that spans all types of rock 'n' roll. "To call it a live festival with all your favorite rock bands put on shuffle is a good comparison," said Joe Litvag, senior vice president of AEG Live Midwest region, a co-organizer of the event. Set out in a pasture just north of ...

May/23/2013 08:13 AM

Obituary: Catherine B. McCormick / Marketing expert, photographer and sailor was 'real go-getter'
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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May 23--Catherine B. McCormick, a Pittsburgh-born market research executive who moved around the country helping banks and other clients map out their strategies, died May 19 at Canterbury Place in Lawrenceville. She was 63. The cause of death was cancer, said her husband, Joseph McCormick, of...

May/23/2013 08:06 AM

Parents facing off over treats in the classroom
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Ventura County Star, Calif.
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May 23--Call it the cupcake wars. On one side: parents who say kids are eating too many cupcakes and other sweets during classroom birthday and holiday celebrations. On the other: parents who see nothing wrong with celebrating a birthday, holiday or classroom accomplishment with a treat or two. Caught in the middle: school districts that find themselves trying to negotiate a policy that limits ...

May/23/2013 06:12 AM

Uncommon Cougars
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The Frederick News-Post, Md.
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May 23--THURMONT -- If it seems remarkable that two teams from an area as small as Frederick County, playing essentially the same game, reached the state final in the same season, consider the odds that a school the size Catoctin High School produced both of them. The school is among the smallest in the state, with fewer than 1,000 students. A certain percentage of them probably don't care ...

May/23/2013 03:50 AM

New York chef Danny Bowien to come home for OK Chefs Relief Pop-Up Restaurant
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The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City
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May 22--It's impossible not to think of the Survivor Oak in downtown Oklahoma City in days painted as deep, dark blue as these. A creature whose sheer tenacity for holding its life dear has rarely been matched in the history of a world made up almost wholly of life. The example it set in not only surviving one of civilization's most dire confrontations with chaos created by mankind at his ...

May/22/2013 06:08 PM

Father charged in death of infant son
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Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.
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May 22--As part of the funeral tribute to Shane Daniel Walls, age 120 days, a picture montage shown on Valentine's Day this year during the visitation pictured the baby sleeping soundly on his father's chest. On Monday, Cory Daniel Walls, 23, was arrested in the death of his infant son. Henrico County police offered few details in the case, describing the child as having been taken to a ...

May/22/2013 12:34 PM

Kinston dentists' oral device is having success for sleep apnea patients
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The Free Press, Kinston, N.C.
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May 22--"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life," author Virginia Woolf once wrote. But for people who experience sleep apnea, it would be a joy to get a good night's sleep. Peg, who asked that her last name not be used, had put up with her husband's snoring for years when she began snoring and waking up gasping for air. He had tried to use a CPAP, or continuous positive airway ...

May/22/2013 07:33 AM