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MARIE PARENTE: Seven years and countingTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:51PM Among the many Christmas cards I received this year was one that included the following message. "Seven years and counting." Pat D. and his wife, of Mendon, signed it.

Huskies spend big to wipe away WillinghamTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:47PMNick Holt patiently listened to a local describe how Washington just produced the worst season in Pac-10 history.

Israel Hits School in Gaza CampTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:45PMPalestinians had sought shelter at the U.N.-run school; at least 40 people are killed, officials say.

Va. man gets 1 year for stabbing dogTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:37PM A Chesapeake man has been sentenced to a year in jail for killing his pit bull with a sword.  

Illegal club shut down in MilfordTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:35PM The idea behind a social club started by Ecuador native Cristina Villacis was simple: give people of Latino heritage a place to get together, play pool and listen to the jukebox.

Israel Hits U.N.-Run School in GazaTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:31PMJERUSALEM, Jan. 6 -- Israeli soldiers battling Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday fired mortar shells at a U.N.-run school where Palestinians had sought refuge from the fighting, killing at least 40 people, many of them civilians, Palestinian medical officials said.

Bishop wants girls taught self-defenseTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:55PMDAGUPAN CITY – Alarmed by reports of girls being molested or raped even by family members, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz ordered all high school girls studying in the 16 Catholic schools covered by his diocese to be taught self-defense.

Israel shells near UN school, killing at least 30Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:45PMGAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli mortar shells struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge Tuesday, killing at least 30 people — many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded.

Prison for suburban coke dealerTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 6:07AMWEST CHESTER — To his neighbors in the East Fallowfield development where he lived, Curtis Self Sr. may have seemed to be the typical suburban father with a tidy front lawn and an SUV parked in the driveway at his comfortable, two-story, wood-frame home.