Archive for the ‘Human Interest’ Category

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) When volunteer John House shows people around the National Infantry Museum, he pauses next to an exhibit in the Vietnam-era section and points to one of the lifelike mannequins posed in a combat stance. p div class="alignleft" style="align:left; ...

Chely Wright

Country music singer Chely Wright has said the United Service Organizations (USO) stopped inviting her to participate in overseas tours to entertain the troops since she came out gay. ...

Pet Stores

Believe it or not, after all the national anti-puppy-mill campaigns, after all the headlines about puppy-mill raids, after all the legislative efforts to marginally improve the hideous conditions under which millions of breeder dogs churn out litter after litter, after Oprah Oprah, for heaven's sake did her much-heralded show on mill dogs, most people still ...

Capybara

Leaving aside that they were on opposite ends of the country, they are also at opposite ends of the reality spectrum. A capybara is real -- the world's largest rodent, sometimes as big as a small dog. A chupacabra, on the other hand, has been called an urban (or perhaps rural) legend, traced to ...

Lady Antebellum

The 2011 Illinois State Fair starts Friday and runs through Aug. 22. The grandstand lineup features everything from country stars to rappers to southern-style rock and comedy. ...

Cesc Fabregas

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Kendall Jenner

There are less than two weeks left until her big day, and bride-to-be Kim Kardashian is on track to rival all other celebrity weddings. (That means you, Will and Kate!) ...

Yankees

Former Yankees batboy Luis Castillo was the last of the team's batboys to not have to sign a confidentiality agreement, so he's spilling the beans in a new memoir, Clubhouse Confidential. ...

The Chicago Bears organization and the city Park District spent Saturday trying to recover from fumbling one of the few events at Soldier Field that many Bears fans can afford to attend. While you were losing your mind at Girl Talk (more on that later), one of the ...

Alex Rodriguez

The gambling ring was initially exposed by Star magazine in June, and among its patrons were A-listers Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. ...

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