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A two-year-old girl who wandered off from her home with her two family dogs has been found fast asleep in a remote woodland three miles away using one pet as 'furry pillow' while the other kept watch over her. Thea, from the rural village of Faithorn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, decided to go on an adventure on Wednesday when her mother Brooke had turned her back. The toddler, along with her two dogs, walked three miles together through the wooded area before she got tired and decided to have a rest. Back home, her panicked mother was frantically calling Thea...

CNN host Brooke Baldwin revealed Friday that she has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, becoming the second high-profile network employee to contract the deadly illness.

AUSTIN, TX -- Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been released after four nights in the hospital for treatment of severe burns he suffered while vacationing last week. Spokesman Matt Hirsch said Abbott left San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center on Friday and is returning to the governor's mansion in Austin. Abbott, a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair, sustained extensive second- and third-degree burns on his lower legs and feet after being scalded July 7 while in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His office won't say exactly how he was burned.

The conservative anti-tax group Club For Growth has launched an ad attacking Will Brooke, a Republican candidate for Alabama's 6th Congressional District, as being a "liberal" due to donations he made in the past to Democrats. In response, the Brooke campaign has strongly disputed the "liberal" characterization in the Club's ad, calling it "deceitful," and highlighted Brooke's history of donations to Republican candidates. The ad, "Follow the Money," is a 30-second video spot paid for by Club for Growth's Super PAC arm, Club for Growth Action. The ad says Brooke, a Harbert Management executive, gave thousands of dollars to "liberal...

Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham criticized Will Brooke, a Republican candidate running to represent Alabama's 6th Congressional district, on her show Thursday for not filling out a three-question form on positions on immigration issues from the anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR. After "The Laura Ingraham Show" aired, the Brooke campaign filled out the form and sent it to Ingraham.

Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams is going to court to get back the $76,000 engagement ring he gave to a former beauty pageant winner. In February, Williams proposed to his girlfriend, Brooke Daniels. When she turned him down, Daniels didn't return the ring. According to Williams' affidavit that was filed in a Texas court last week, he asked for the ring back but was told by Daniels that she had lost it. An insurance investigation later revealed that Daniels' father was in possession of the ring.

Calling Former Senator Edward W. Brooke's life an "unlikely" journey President Obama today honored the first popularly elected African American senator for receiving the highest honor Congress can bestow, the Congressional Gold Medal. "I think today's honor bears a unique significance," Mr. Obama said in an afternoon ceremony in the Capitol rotunda, "bestowed by this body of which he was an esteemed member; presented in this place where he moved the arc of history; surrounded by so many -- myself included -- who have followed the trail that he blazed. " The President said that Brooke spent his life "breaking...

Former Senator Edward Brooke received the Congressional Gold Medal today from President Obama. I looked at the rules for recipients, and one of them is they shall not receive it if they have receive it if they have received another for essentially the same thing. He did. He was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004. NOTES: "Gold Medalist: President Barack Obama will speak today at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol awarding former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Edward Brooke the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the nation’s highest honors. Brooke, 90 years old, will be in attendance....

More than five years after she was abducted from Oregon State University and presumed killed, the remains of Brooke Wilberger have been found and her suspected killer has pleaded guilty. Joel Patrick Courtney faced a possible death sentence when he went to trial next February in Benton County for aggravated murder in Wilberger's death. But today, after a change of venue to Marion County Circuit Court, Courtney, a 43-year-old native of unincorporated Washington County, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to prison for life with no possibility of release. As a part of the plea agreement, Benton County...

On the tour, The Twins performed their single “Wild Out.” When the song becomes available on I-Tunes. all proceeds will go to the Brooke Army Medical Center – a care facility that provides level-one trauma and prosthetic limbs for soldiers

Fifteen years ago, at the age of 90, Brooke Astor issued a letter to her executors in which she laid out instructions for her funeral. Her second husband, Charles Marshall, had done the same thing before his own death in 1952, “and it was a great comfort to know that I was doing exactly what he wanted,” she wrote. Mrs. Astor, the socialite and philanthropist who died on Monday, expressed her wishes for “a regular Episcopal service” at St. Thomas Church, on Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street, and went on, in the letter, to make specific requests for hymns, prayers,...

Country music superstar Toby Keith greets Capt. Scott Leifker, a wounded warrior recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center, during a private pre-concert "meet and greet" at the AT&T Center in San Antonio Nov. 19. Leifker was one of 500 Soldiers who received tickets to the free concert for 14,000 Texas Ford truck owners. Photo by Cheryl Harrison More Images SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Army News Service, Nov. 21, 2006) - Country music superstar Toby Keith rocked the stage, and a few Soldiers' world, at a private concert Sunday for 14,000 Texas Ford truck owners and about 500 servicemembers at the...

St. Paul native Herb Brooks, who coached the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to the "Miracle on Ice," was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category, according to legendsofhockey.net. Terrance "Dick" Duff, Patrick Roy - the NHL's winningest goaltender - and former NHL chairman of the board Harley Hotchkiss also were elected, according to the Web site. All four will be inducted in November

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Army News Service, Feb. 8, 2006) -For one Soldier recovering from wounds sustained in Operation Enduring Freedom, a visit from the Army’s senior NCO came with a special birthday gift -- a promotion. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston visited wounded warriors recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center Monday to thank the troops for their sacrifice and service. Spc. Ernesto Godoy was promoted to sergeant during Preston’s visit. Godoy was injured in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device while on a routine patrol with the 173rd Airborne Brigade out of Vicenza, Italy. Although suffering...

Los Angeles, California (AHN) - Brooke Shields, who has currently been criticized by fellow Hollywood actor Tom Cruise for using anti-depressants after her first birth, is pregnant again. She is expecting a child with a screenwriter husband Chris Henchy. The news follows the announcement from three weeks ago that Katie Holmes is also expecting a child with Scientologist Tom Cruise. Cruise has recently been on a media debate over postpartum depression therapies. In an interview, the actor expressed his dismay towards Shields for using drugs to remedy the depression she felt after giving birth to her first child. With the...

Brooke Shields has officially engaged with Tom Cruise in what is fast becoming a celebrity war of the words. After Cruise criticized Shields' use of antidepressants as "irresponsible" during an interview with Access Hollywood last week, Shields has suggested the leading man keep his opinions to himself. "Tom Cruise's comments are irresponsible and dangerous," Shields said in London last week. "Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them." Shields recently published Down Came the Rain, a personal chronicle of her struggle with depression...

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2005 – Defense officials have used the base realignment and closure process to transform the way military medicine operates. Medical facilities will become more joint, they will consolidate where patients reside and they will become state-of-the-art. "We want to rival Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinics," said Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant defense secretary for health affairs. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld delivered his recommendations for base realignment and closure to the BRAC Commission today. The medical recommendations are part of this process. The recommendations mean changes to military medicine in the nation's capital and San Antonio,...

The world just learned that "Catholic" actress Brooke Shields is the proud mother of a new baby girl. For a long time infertility problems made it impossible for her and her husband to conceive, and after many failed attempts to conceive naturally she resorted to the technological solution: in vitro fertilization (IVF). Now she is pictured on the covers of glamorous magazines with a smiling beautiful baby girl, but some have questioned her decision to use IVF. I am one of them. Was this star wrong to have a "test tube" baby? Yes. Dead wrong. While recognizing the pain of...

Last modified Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:49 PM PDT Brook Wilberger The search intensifies By JESSE SOWA Gazette-Times reporter Police believe Wilberger abducted Shoes and personal items were left behind Monday morning outside a Corvallis apartment complex, but there was no other sign of Brooke Carol Wilberger. She was gone without a trace. On Tuesday, police continued interviewing people and searching the Corvallis area for the 19-year-old Veneta woman, whom police believe was abducted. Wilberger was last seen about 10 a.m. Monday at the Oak Park Apartments, 1219 S.W. 26th St., where her sister and brother-in-law, Stephanie and Zak Hansen,...