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Separated by more than 1,500 miles, a 68-year-old mother and her 41-year-old son walked the Lincoln Half Marathon together Sunday.

Kelly McHugh-Stewart ran Sunday's Lincoln Marathon in her father's footsteps. In 2010, U.S. Army Col. John McHugh was killed by a suicide bomber while he was attending a NATO conference in Afghanistan.

Every year, the winner of the Lincoln Marathon receives a trophy named for Lewis Anderson, who in 1912 became the first Nebraskan to participate in the Olympic Games.

If you've ever followed the route of the Lincoln Marathon, you may have noticed clothing piled on tops of barrels and tossed along the sides of the street.

The Heat and Hornets are clearly tiring of each other, six games of testiness culminating with Game 7 today. One particular battle line being drawn is over Jeremy Lin (6.3) and Kemba Walker (5.5), who lead players in this series in free-throw attempts per game. Marc Stein: ESPN sources say that one of the factors […]

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Artist Scott Blake makes flip books without drawing a single line: instead, he uses a hole puncher. He makes patterns on a computer, prints them out, and then goes through the painstaking process of punching the holes and lining up the pages to make these awesome flip books.

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London Irish suffer relegation from the Premiership after Harlequins win at the Madejski Stadium.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Anti-government protesters temporarily ended their mass demonstration in Baghdad's Green Zone on Sunday and began an orderly withdrawal a day after tearing down walls around the government district and invading parliament.

Talk about a wild party.

Montreal police have arrested about a dozen protesters at a May Day march organized by the anti-capitalist group CLAC, as exchanges between marchers and police intensified.

The experienced Italian will put family first and miss Spurs' clash with last year's champions, even though the result could crown his side as league winners

Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead in the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, and a majority of GOP voters disapprove of the effort by underdogs Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich to coordinate a strategy to block him

Het aantal Amerikaanse peuters dat een wapen in handen krijgt en iemand neerschiet, stijgt scherp. De krant The Washington Post constateerde vorig jaar nog dat het gemiddeld een keer per week voorkwam, in de eerste zeventien weken van dit jaar zijn al 23 mensen het slachtoffer geworden van een dergelijke schietpartij.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS beheaded them after accusing them of "photographing sites and handing information to the crusader coalition causing bombing.

SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) -- A group of more than 20 North Korean defectors and ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been indicted here on charges of smuggling methamphetamine believed to be produced in the North into South Korea for sale or personal consumpt

An appeals court has cleared the way for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's legal case to resume, rejecting prosecutors' arguments that defense attorneys were given too much leeway on accessing classified documents.

An appeals court has cleared the way for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's legal case to resume, rejecting prosecutors' arguments that defense attorneys were given too much leeway on accessing classified documents. The United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals denied prosecutors' appeal in a ruling released late Saturday by defense attorneys. Prosecutors had argued the military judge erred in a decision that "directs the unauthorized disclosure of classified information and grants the defense unfettered... Читать дальше...

For the third straight week, Disney’s “The Jungle Book” bested both newcomers and holdovers at the box office, continuing a hot streak for the Burbank entertainment giant.

Owner New World Resources appeals to Prague ministers for help to save mining unit

Close to launching an Initial Public Offering (IPO), Vodafone has picked six investment banks, including Kotak, ICICI and UBS, for the over USD 2 billion share sale process, as per media sources.

NEW YORK (AP) — Disney's "The Jungle Book" trounced a handful of underperforming new releases to rule the box office for a third consecutive week, while next week's certain champ, "Captain America: Civil War," began setting records overseas.