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More parents choosing to skip childhood vaccines causes concern for health experts
areynolds@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, -- It's part of growing up, but experts say far too many children are not getting vaccinated. Doctors in the Ozarks are urging parents to keep their kids protected. It's World Immunization Week. This comes at a time when there are more...Tags: Vaccines, Mumps, Polio, Diseases and Illnesses, Immunization
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New Orlando arts programs benefit children with special needs
As actor Sage Starkey clambers onto a large ball onstage, a child in the audience shouts "Be careful!" "Look, it's a ball!" another child chimes in. No one shushes the enthusiastic theatergoers, though, because for the first time, the Orlando Repertory...Tags: Florida Hospital, Sociology, Politics, Foods and Beverages, Dance
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Building awareness of autism's growth
Thank you for the front-page story covering the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event (“Concerned about the danger, but still walking,” April 21). In 2002 I was one of a small group of volunteer parents who had this idea of putting on a walk to...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Autism Speaks
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20 years in prison for St. Cloud man who tried to kill cops with AK-47
KISSIMMEE — A St. Cloud man who tried to kill two cops in 2011 with an AK-47 was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation and psychiatric treatment. More than 30 law enforcement officers — most of them from...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Osceola County Jail, Judges, Automotive Equipment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ruritan Scholarship winners announced
The Maugansville Ruritan Club announced its scholarship winners from local high schools. Each winner attended a dinner at the club with their parents on April 17 and were presented $1,000 scholarships from Tom Ingram, scholarship chairman. Allison...
Tags: Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Awards and Prizes, Education, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Mom hopes to open Pennsylvania Autism Charter School
When Annette Hickey's son was diagnosed with autism, her family paid $160,000 over the next four years to help him learn how to speak and be prepared for elementary school. Now that he's 8 years old and doesn't even know he has autism, his mother wants...Tags: Berks County, Learning Disability, Behavioral Conditions, Local Government, Students
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Horse track money laundering trial begins in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A multimillion-dollar horse racing and breeding operation run from an Oklahoma ranch was actually a front for a notorious Mexican cartel to launder millions of dollars in drug money, prosecutors alleged at the beginning of a trial for...Tags: Defendants, Los Zetas Cartel, Court Preliminary, Organized Crime, Sports
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Character Counts: Jessica Van Wart
Jessica Van Wart Age: 18 School: Boca Raton Community High Grade: 12th Hometown: Boca Raton Pillar: Caring For Jessica, helping special-needs students has a dual benefit. They respond positively as she assists them before school, at lunch,...Tags: Science and Technology, Teachers, Education, Students, Teaching and Learning
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A ROAR of support in Roland Park for national Autism Awareness Month
Sitting at the kitchen counter, playing a game on his mother's cellphone, Nick Brooks looked like any other 13-year-old, except for an occasional hand clap and the burbles that his brothers affectionately call "Nicky noises." Soon, he got bored with the...Tags: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Roland Park, Learning Disability, McDonald's, Foods and Beverages
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Letters: What brain mapping can't cure
Re "Ambitious effort aims to map brain," April 3 Although I understand President Obama's humorous intent, I don't believe even the most exhaustive understanding of the workings of the brain could even come close to explaining "all kinds of things that...Tags: Interior Policy, Science and Technology, Stroke, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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'The Voice' recap: Battle Rounds finish strong
And so the Battle Rounds on "The Voice" have come to an end. Tuesday night's final matchups were the last before next week's Knockouts, which will include no steals, no second chances, we were warned – just two singers from each team squaring off,...
Tags: Lady Antebellum (music group), Adam Levine, Theft, Music, Entertainment
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To surf with love: Surfers for Autism Beach Festival
No one can explain exactly why what happens happens, that a child locked away in the grip of autism and a family hardened by years of accommodating the disorder are suddenly, for a few hours, free. The moment when the child, aided by a Surfers for...
Tags: Deerfield Beach, Travel, Arts and Culture, Sports, Trips and Vacations
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