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2013/05/24 10:34

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Ainsley Buster turned 10 last month. “I don’t feel that different,” the fourth-grader from Knoxville’s Mabel Woolsey School said. “Just older.” Ainsley is humble. She’s different in a really special...

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2013/05/22 20:34

Loewy Online: Tea Party members are everyday peop...

Rich, white people all across this country must rest easy at night. They put their finely crafted, surgically sculpted and pampered heads to those expensive order-through-a-catalogue pillows and...

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2013/05/22 12:34

Tom LoewyL Community Center sale sparks conversat...

One of the best places to spend a morning can be found on the 100 block of East Simmons Street. And Tuesday morning was no exception. The puddles left by Monday night’s rain reflected a mostly blue...

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2013/05/20 21:38

Loewy Online: Pictures worth 1,000 words and a lo...

Over the weekend I stumbled across some work I closely identify with and wanted to share with readers. Chris Arnade is a banker and photographer who lives in Manhattan and obviously haunts the...

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2013/05/17 12:35

Boy critical but stable; father expresses thanks

Some images are hard to shake. Like the one of two Galesburg firefighters frantically searching for a 3-year-old boy trapped inside a burning house and a room so filled with smoke visibility was...

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2013/05/16 18:34

Loewy Online: Today's edition of read and tweet

Here’s what I’m reading and tweeting today: Roy Peter Clark writes for the Poynter website on all things to do with the printed word. Here’s an interesting piece about what writer’s...

2013/05/15 22:34

Loewy Online: Twitter, 'Hannibal,' and a few good...

A few readers have noticed I “tweet” quite a bit of information about what I’m reading and watching on a daily basis. I’m fortunate to have roughly 1,485 Twitter followers. Gentle critics have noted...

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2013/05/15 10:34

Fire sparks a lesson: Know what’s plugged in

Images from the aftermath of Tuesday morning’s house fire at 801 Oak St.: Half-burned children’s books shoveled out a window onto green grass. Broken windows, the screens hanging in tatters. A...

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2013/05/13 19:35

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Loewy Online: Guts

I’ll never forget standing outside a movie theater as a little boy and gazing upon these words: “Guts. You’ve either got them, or you don’t.” The word “Guts” was in red. Three big letters across the...

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2013/05/08 23:35

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The Register-Mail was named best small daily newspaper in Illinois last week in the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association annual newspaper contest. The AP reported that The Register-Mail,...

2013/05/08 11:34

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Reflecting on a mom’s life

The place locals still call “the Berrien” is empty most weekdays before schools let out. Quiet, too, except for the sound of cars and trucks out on South Academy Street. It’s become fashionable, of...

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2013/05/03 11:34

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Insurance shouldn’t buy respect

Julie Windsor wasn’t sure if she had a story to tell. Maybe the 42-year-old registered nurse just wanted to vent. Maybe she just wanted to describe feeling put down by someone who is supposed to...

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2013/05/01 10:34

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Enlisting community in a battle against cancer

Jodi Wignall and Cindy Lawson-Shumaker are friends. During conversation, they interrupt each other naturally. One will often complete the other’s sentence. They share their troubles and their joys....

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2013/04/27 12:34

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Awareness, action could save a child’s life

Kiara Booth had an official reason to be outside the Knox County Courthouse for Friday’s “Hands Around the Courthouse.” The just-turned 21-year-old Knox College student has been an intern at Safe...

2013/04/26 13:34

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Trio of nurses bound for Zambia

Sometimes the pressures of life and work and the myriad little things that weigh on all of us every day are just too much for Josette Gipson. “There are some days when I just want to quit,” said...

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2013/04/24 22:34

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Loewy Online: 'Promised Land' more than simple co...

You see them inside Cherry St. Restaurant. Or crowded around the bar at McGillicuddy’s after the Knox County Courthouse closes. Men in suits. Women in business attire. Never cared for business wear....

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2013/04/19 12:34

Goals give purpose to life

Corbyn Wascher is one-third the man he was a year ago. And that’s a good thing. “Let’s see ... in January 2012 I weighted right about 320 pounds,” Wascher said Monday afternoon while seated in Carl...

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