Kinship Remembered: Hiking With My Brother

I lived in Omaha during Pogo's teen years and thus did not know him well after the early years of his life, when he was the darling of his older siblings (11, eight and six years older).

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Ken Burns: An Interview with the Emmy Award Winning Director and Producer

"National Parks: America's Best Idea" premiered on PBS recently.

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Rover (the Duck) reports on local food choices in the greater Roanoke region

Local celebrity Rover-the-Duck reports on the latest local food options, farmers markets and harvest festivals in the greater Roanoke region of Virginia.

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Seeing Stars: A New Observatory at Primland Resort

From the post: "Standing in the dome, as it whirred and moved around us and as the telescope rotated, looking for a spot in the sky, I felt at once the small and massive scale of me and the universe.

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The Great Kitten Rescue

The magazine publishing team at The Roanoker (Leisure Publishing) rescues two newborn kittens.

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Was Twitter coerced by Google?

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Judge acquits Roanoke police officer

Roanoke Judge William Broadhurst finds Roanoke City Police Officer Daniel Meyer not guilty of the unlawful shooting of a teenager from an incident in 2007 in Roanoke, VA.

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First tornado in over 40 years hits Roanoke, VA

According to the National Weather Service, an EF0 tornado struck the Roanoke Valley yesterday. This is the first tornado to touch down in Roanoke since a similar tornado in the 1970s.

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Betrayed coworkers asked to forgive

Employees of Virginia-based Meridium, Inc. were asked by the company's CEO to forgive a former bookkeeper who was recently convicted of embezzling over $0.5 million dollars from the company.

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Why Facebook Is Even Bigger than You Think

Stanford professor BJ Fogg explains why the social networking site is the most powerful thing ever invented.

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Ex-Navy Seal trainee attempts to overturn his murder conviction

In June 1995 a college student was abducted and murdered near the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Hillary Clinton likely to drop out next week

Virginia governor Tim Kaine (D) suggest Hillary Clinton will drop out next week after the final two primaries.

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Special prosecutor to investigate political attack ad involving a false contributor name

A special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate a political attack ad with an allegedly false name given as the source after a much-contested local election in Roanoke, Virginia.

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