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Dr. Douglas L. Johnson, 1949-2013
Dr. Douglas L. Johnson, a neurosurgeon with a practice in DuPage County, joined the Navy Reserve and was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as an assistant battalion surgeon with the Marines in a combat region known as the "Triangle of Death." "Doug was a hero...Tags: Iraq, Chicago Police Department, University of Chicago, Rush University, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Trial begins for doctors blamed in pill mill deaths
Two South Florida doctors became "dope dealers" who prescribed massive doses of pain pills — resulting in the overdose deaths of nine people under their care, federal prosecutors said Friday as the physicians' criminal trial began. Defense...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Wars and Interventions, Court Preliminary, Parkland, Trials
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John Wager, 1946-2013
Before he was a philosophy professor, John Wager was an Army infantry sergeant fighting in Vietnam who, in 1970, refused an order to go into Cambodia because he believed it would be illegal. The invasion of Cambodia was announced by President Richard...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Abraham Lincoln, Elwood (Will, Illinois), Wars and Interventions
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Historical cannon rededicated to honoring war dead
In 1979, about a month before leaving his home in Chicago's western suburbs to join the Army, Jon Meinholz led a group of volunteers in refurbishing a 19th century cannon at Montgomery's Riverside Cemetery. The 17-year-old touched up the old weapon,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Spanish-American War, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Memorial Day
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COLUMN: Sad fates wait for defeated candidates
"There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, and his line has often been applied to politics. There’s a lot of truth in it, as Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may be about to discover. In the past week, both made...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Elections, Walter Mondale, Al Gore, Politics
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It's evident patriotism is back during Morris Frock Memorial Day program
davem@herald-mail.comFrom the Civil War, when those who gave their lives led to “a new birth of freedom,” to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when the nation’s resolve was tested, military personnel in the country have risen to meet something bigger...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Holidays, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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L.A.-born Episcopal leader brings his liberal views to Washington
WASHINGTON — A bearded young comedy writer espousing progressive views in Hollywood in the early 1970s might not have surprised anyone. But when the same man, who is now the Very Rev. Gary Hall, started advocating the same views from the...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., William Sloane Coffin, Anglicanism, Family, Politics
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19th-century cannon gets second life in Montgomery
Tribune reporterIn 1979, about a month before leaving his home in Chicago’s western suburbs to join the Army, Jon Meinholz led a group of volunteers in refurbishing a 19th-century cannon at Montgomery’s Riverside Cemetery. The 17-year-old touched up the old...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Spanish-American War, Union (McHenry, Illinois), International Military Interventions
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Jacqueline Spare, nurse
Jacqueline Ann Spare, a registered nurse who worked for many years at Bon Secours Hospital, died of bone cancer May 28 at the Joseph Richey Hospice. The Columbia resident was 65. Born Jacqueline Ann Sullivan in Abington, Pa., she was the daughter of...
Tags: Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Montgomery County (Maryland), Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing, Colleges and Universities
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Neff, innovative leader of Goodwill Industries, stepping down
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- J. Larry Neff's 40-year stint as CEO and president of Goodwill Industries in South Bend has been marked by innovation and success. At a time when other Goodwill Industries have struggled in some Indiana communities, South Bend's has...Tags: Lansing, Finance, Career and Workplace, Niles, Politics
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
SUSPENDED DRIVER-OFFICER KILLED Suspended driver kills off-duty officer, dad to 5 CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Southeastern Michigan authorities say a man driving on a suspended license turned left in front of an off-duty police officer...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Disasters and Accidents, Joliet, U.S. Senate, Trials
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WWII icon losing to progress
Nearly a decade after the conclusion of World War II, folks in Orange County decided that a small corner of Costa Mesa should be dedicated to those who didn't make it back home. A 1.4-acre memorial garden — planned in 1953, erected the following...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Culture, Sociology
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