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America marks Veterans Day with parades, freebies

Courier Newsroom - November 11, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans marked Veterans Day on Tuesday with parades, speeches and military discounts, while in Europe the holiday known as Armistice...

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Confederate pomp amid burial of slave's daughter

Courier Newsroom - October 17, 2014

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When the ashes of Mattie Clyburn Rice, the daughter of a slave, are buried Saturday in her father's grave in...

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JFK 50th: Nation pauses to remember lost president

Courier Newsroom - November 23, 2013

DALLAS (AP) — Fifty years after John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassin's bullet while visiting Texas with his wife, people at home...

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