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Hospital feels like home for medically fragile children
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Parenting is not for the faint of heart: It's stressful, heartbreaking, and time consuming. But imagine if your child needed constant medical care to survive -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It would be nearly impossible to go to the...Tags: Heritage Foundation, Hospitals and Clinics
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No. 5 Notre Dame women shock No. 1 UConn 73-72
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame just seem to have Connecticut's number. The Irish have turned one of the best rivalries in women's basketball into a one-sided affair lately, winning five of the past six meetings. The senior...
Tags: Stanford Cardinal, Geno Auriemma, Big East Conference, College Sports, Connecticut Huskies
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SeaWorld attack: Video captures dolphin biting little girl
8-year-old Jillian Thomas is so obsessed with dolphins that when her parents brought her to SeaWorld Orlando last week, she made sure to visit the dolphin cove twice. But she and her parents received the fright of their lives when the marine mammal...
Tags: Zoology, Theme Park Vacations, SeaWorld, Tetanus, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Hometown Secret: House of David
WSBT-TVIt's one of longest running religious colonies in the United States and it's located in southwest Michigan. At its peak in the early 1900s, the House of David in Benton Harbor had 1,000 members and was a multi-million dollar business empire.Today, over...Tags: Religion and Belief, Al Capone, Business, Disneyland Park, Music
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Boy hit by bird on NJ roller coaster
JACKSON, N.J. (AP) — A boy is recovering after he was hit in the face by a bird while riding a roller coaster at an amusement park in New Jersey. The collision occurred as the Kingda Ka coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson was...
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Eau Claire man gets lost class ring back 27 years later
WSBT-TV ReporterHave you ever lost something special and thought you'd never see it again? Most of us never do, except for one Eau Claire man whose "lost item" story began 27 year ago. Like most people, Graydon Pope gets a lot of emails each day. Most are nothing...Tags: High Schools, Schools
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Disney shutters childhood obesity exhibit
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World says it is retooling an Epcot exhibit targeting childhood obesity after critics complained that it stigmatized fat kids. The Orlando Sentinel (http://thesent.nl/ylHSlk ) reported that the interactive Habit...Tags: Weight, Walt Disney, Obesity, Health
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Plymouth man wins $2 million jackpot
A Plymouth family is waking up rich this morning after winning $2 million in the Hoosier Lottery.
Rick Cooper won the $2 million after buying a Monopoly scratch-off at a convenience store in Warsaw near his job at Sands Office Equipment.
Rick and his...Tags: Mega Millions Lottery, Warsaw (Poland), Office Equipment and Supplies, Services and Shopping, Lotteries
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How Swarbrick landed the Super Bowl
NOTRE DAME - Perhaps no one inside Lucas Oil Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, aside from the players and coaches themselves, has a bigger interest in how this event plays out than Jack Swarbrick.
"This Super Bowl in this city is generating the greatest...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis 500, Football, David Letterman, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Vet thrown from coaster receives military funeral
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A double-amputee Iraq war veteran who was thrown to his death from a western New York roller coaster has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. About 150 friends and relatives were at the historic Virginia cemetery...Tags: New York, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Iraq War (2003-2011), Trips and Vacations
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8 injured by lightning at Florida SeaWorld
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials say eight people have been injured by a lightning strike at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove water park in Orlando. SeaWorld spokesman Nick Gollattscheck says none of Tuesday afternoon's injuries were life-threatening. He...Tags: Discovery Cove, Injuries and Wounds, Career and Workplace, Employees, Florida
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SeaWorld fights OSHA findings in trainer's death
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — SeaWorld Orlando is fighting $75,000 in penalties from a federal job safety agency after a whale killed its trainer. A hearing is set for Monday before an administrative judge in the Orlando suburb of Sanford. SeaWorld is...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Career and Workplace, Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld, Health and Safety at Work
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