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2013 shatters record for fewest U.S. tornadoes

Click here: ‘Least extreme U.S. weather ever?’: 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes — 15% lower than previous record — 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984
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Chamber of Commerce to Spend $50 Million to Crush Tea Party

Click here: Chamber of Commerce to Spend $50 Million to Crush Tea Party
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Snowden cites Orwell’s ‘1984’ in Christmas message

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appeared in a televised Christmas message released to the British public by TV station Channel 4 on Wednesday. (Dec. 25)

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Gallup: Obama Job Approval Tanks

Click here: Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval Falls to 39%

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Study: Alcohol Can Boost Your Immune System

Click here: Study: Alcohol Can Boost Your Immune System
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Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of AK-47, dies at 94

Click here: Mikhail Kalashnikov passes away in hospital bed
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Can’t Remember Faces? You’re not alone

Click here: Why recognising someone is in the genes: Third of people have impaired ability to identify and remember facial features
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The next Detroit? Alantic City & Las Vegas face collapse

Click here: The next Detroit? Atlantic City and Las Vegas facing catastrophic collapse
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Obituaries this Week

Billy Lee Lunsford, 80, West Burlington, formerly Mt. Pleasant, died Saturday, December 21, 2013

Joyce Louise (Poindexter) Esty, 86, Burlington died Monday, December 23, 2013

Karen L. Lyon, 65, Burlington died Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Calvin Eugene “Snook” Clay, 71, Burlington died Monday, December 23, 2013

Janice Lynn Curley-McCoy, 57, Burlington died Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Miriam Ida Darrah, 94, Burlington, died Sunday, December 29, 2013

Andrew “Andy” Michael Breuer, 38, Burlington died Sunday, December 29, 2013

Helen Louise Klopfenstein, 92, Burlington died Monday, December 30, 2013

Iva D. Owen, 98, West Burlington, formerly Cotter, died Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Patrick Terrence Mackey, 73, Danville, died Monday, December 30, 2013

William F. “Bill” Balbort, 76, Burlington, died Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Leo J. “Bud” Martin Jr. 82, Burlington died Friday, January 3, 2014

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