SANGER — It started like most Christmas wishes — with a simple request and a little bit of hope; but it has turned into so much more. "North Dakota, did we have North Dakota?" Mary Ann Pyron asked her ...

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Any political exile from Fascism or Naziism has a difficult time traveling about Europe these days. The man who would be arrested on sight in one Axis country would probably find conditions ...

It wasn’t until Sep. 11, 2001 that I realized my hometown was only 12 miles from New York City. They were 12 very long miles though, clogged with traffic and striated with densely packed layers of the ...