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On the Town: Dancing up a storm at the Ford
While some had no choice but to stand due to a sell-out, standing-room-only house, even those with seats at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre took to their feet in a standing ovation following the Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre’s “Dance in the...
Tags: Entertainment, Elvis Presley, Music, Nancy Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald
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Team wins SCMAF consolation title
Bits and pieces from the local sports scene. Burbank football team comes back in tournament: Despite dropping its first game in the Southern California Municipal Athletic Federation flag football championship, the Burbank Fighting Irish battled back....Tags: Army National Guard, Golf, Teaching and Learning, Graduation, Thomas Jefferson
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Son of military hero receives scholarship
Burbank resident Aaron Rifkin was awarded a scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year from the Freesom Alliance Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is awarded to sons and daughters of military service men and women who have been prisoners of war, missing...Tags: Defense, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces, Missing in Action, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Arrow investigation leads police to military
Police are investigating whether someone now deployed abroad on active military duty may have been responsible for shooting an arrow through an elderly Burbank couple’s home two weeks ago. An elderly Burbank couple found a 2 1/2-foot-long arrow...Tags: Archery, Police Investigations
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Obama to address Naval Academy commencement
President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement today, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit. It is the second time...Tags: Defense, United States Naval Academy, U.S. Department of Defense, Annapolis, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, FBI, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Politics, Religious Conflicts
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The Confederate general From Pennsylvania
People who passed John Pemberton on the streets of Allentown must have thought him an impressive figure. This 60-year-old's lean, 5-foot-10-inch, ramrod-straight frame showed a positively military bearing. His finely tailored suits added to Pemberton's...Tags: Defense, Slavery, Science and Technology, Christianity, Unions
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Obama implores graduates to carry forth values they've learned
President Barack Obama told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy on Friday that the nation needs them to "project power across the oceans" and vowed to continue to fight for military resources for their missions in the face of deep federal budget...
Tags: United States Naval Academy, U.S. Navy, Sex Crimes, Annapolis, Sexual Assault
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Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war
WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, FBI
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La Caņada Fiesta Days schedule
Hosts La Caņada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and Community Assn. stick with tradition for Fiesta Days' main lineup each year. EVENTS: Casino Night at the Community Center — Friday, May 24, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The event kicks off Fiesta...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, YMCA, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, How to Train Your Dragon (movie)
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Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay members, but not leaders, ending century-long ban
The Boy Scouts of America approved a historic policy shift Thursday, allowing gay youths as members for the first time in the organization's 100-year history. But the highly anticipated vote by 1,400 members of the Scouts' executive committee stopped...Tags: Elections, Christianity, Religious Events, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Ted Cruz
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Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...
Tags: Elections, Religious Events, Ted Cruz, Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics
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