For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Ford Motor Co. said it will spend $155 million upgrading a factory to build a new fuel-efficient V6 engine for the 2011 Mustang and expects to add 60 jobs as a result.
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Tina Tennyson loved to make raspberry jam using the fresh fruit she bought at the farmers market in San Jose. When she recently moved to Sacramento, she hit a stumbling block: the local market didn't accept food stamps.
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Lawmakers help food stamps get to farmers markets (AP via Yahoo! News)
The pleasures of farm TV.
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Satellite Feed (New York Times)
A 70-year-old motorist was fatally struck by a freight train after driving around a lowered railroad gate Thursday morning in west suburban Wheaton.
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Train Strikes, Kills Motorist in Wheaton (FOX News Chicago)
A childhood fascination with trains has turned into quite an attraction in Commerce Township. A local man built his own model train station.
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Local Man Creates Model Train Station (FOX 2 News Detroit)
"The Tonight Show" stirred up a bit -- and we do mean just a bit -- of controversy Wednesday night by having William Shatner do a dramatic reading of Twitter updates purportedly written by Palin family scourge and soon-to-be Playgirl model Levi Johnston.Except they weren't really Johnston's authentic tweets. They were those of an impostor using Johnston's name, and his lawyer demanded an apology ...
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'The Tonight Show': Levi Johnston's real tweets, read by William Shatner (Zap2It)
The Florida National Guard is training 2,500 troops for deployment to Iraq and Kuwait. When the troops depart in January, it will be the largest overseas deployment for the Florida Guard since World War II.
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National Guard trains for deployment (FOX 35 Orlando)
A woman is dead after her car was hit by a train at a railroad crossing in Byhalia Sunday afternoon.
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Woman Killed in Byhalia Train Accident (FOX 13 Memphis)
Many municipalities host Touch-a-Truck Days, but when it comes to hands-on experiences for kids, few places have the mettle —- or metal —- of the Southeastern Railway Museum.
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Presidential car at train museum (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In a 1950 museum picture, 9-year-old Lawrence Taylor can be seen among hundreds gathered in downtown Jackson to celebrate famous railroad engineer Casey Jones. The occasion marked the release of a stamp in honor of Jones, who died in 1900 saving lives during a train wreck.
Continue here: Casey Jones Home Gets Makeover (FOX 13 Memphis)