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Check Lincoln wrote day before being shot is found

January 14, 2012 10:54 AM

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) - A personal check that Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was assassinated is among those that were rediscovered by an Ohio bank. The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that 70 checks were found in a vault at Huntington Bank's Columbus headquarters, including checks signed... more »
Colorado man surprised by shooting report

November 10, 2011 11:53 AM

DURANGO - A Colorado man is feeling a bit like Mark Twain when he famously told a newspaper reporter "the report of my death was an exaggeration." On Tuesday, deputies with the La Plata County Sheriff's Office issued a news release reporting the that Dennis Snodgrass was shot in the... more »
California frog getting own habitat

March 18, 2010 1:16 PM

Mark Twain celebrated them, hungry gold prospectors ate them, and rural landowners cursed the name of the California red-legged frog. Now, the jumping frog, whose dwindling numbers empowered anti-sprawl advocates while thwarting farmers, ranchers and developers across California, is getting an established habitat to protect its recovery. Maybe.... more »