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A fight for justice up in flames

We are not all Chris Dorner. In 2008, Christopher Dorner was working as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department when he allegedly witnessed his training officer kick a mentally ill suspect while he was down on the ground getting handcuffed.


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"One in 30,000"

If you're a college student and you're considering entering a relationship with another college student, read this next sentence very carefully. You better be ready to put in work. Of course, this could be said about any relationship.


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Marrying the Mets

To an outsider, I look like another single male. However, many are unaware of my committed relationship of nearly 21 years. Who's the lucky lady? The New York Mets. This relationship, like any other, has seen its fair share of ups and downs.


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Strength through crisis

The biggest relief of my life was the moment I walked across the stage during my high school graduation and received my diploma - the moment I always pictured being the end of one chapter and the beginning of adulthood. While I made my way across the stage, I basked in the bright fluorescent lights, unable to see the faces of the thousands of people who came to watch the graduates.


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Dub in a tub

Dubya just can't catch a break. Last week a hacker by the alias "Guccifer" broke into multiple email accounts of the Bush family, uncovering private messages, pictures and documents from 2009-12.


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Going back to the big leaps

It's been a couple big weeks of anniversaries and achievements for NASA. The rover Curiosity just successfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected a sample from its interior, the first time ever on the planet.


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Letter to the Editor

Believe in yourself. Seize the present day and take hold of your future. Through everything in life, every goal you set, every trial you go through, you must not let your doubts get to you.


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The drone wars

John Brennan, the president's pick for new CIA director and his principal adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism over the last four years, faced the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday afternoon to answer questions on U.S.


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A few elite men

All this talk about "elite" quarterbacks made me grab a dictionary. I typed "elite" into dictionary.com and found: the choice or best of anything considered collectivity, as a group or class of persons.


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Fail mail

If the United States Postal Service gets its way, you'll be getting a lot less spam on Saturdays. The USPS announced Wednesday it intends to stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning the week of Aug.


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The drone wars

John Brennan, the president's pick for new CIA director and his principal adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism over the last four years, faced the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday afternoon to answer questions on U.S.


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Running for the shelter

Richard Fee - class president, college graduate and avid lover of baseball and the outdoors. At the age of 24, he committed suicide. A recent article in The New York Times chronicled the life and death of Fee, who developed a dependence on Adderall, the popular and controversial prescription drug used to treat patients with ADHD.


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Commercial success

It has been said that commercials are the best thing about the Super Bowl. And whether you are a football fan or just that friend who comes over to eat all the pigs in a blanket and complain that we aren't watching the Puppy Bowl, we can all find some time to enjoy the endless TV timeouts. Doritos: The Goat A man buys a goat that is eating Doritos from a man in a neck brace, and in 30 seconds, the goat turns his life upside down.


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Pinpointing the problem

Erie County employees are sitting in the lap of luxury, and if you're a taxpayer, they have you to thank. A recent audit found taxpayers paid nearly $1.4 million over four years so Erie County workers could receive massage and acupuncture treatment.


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