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LOUISVILLE, KY. - In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt. Now Charles Craig Young is heading home, since the family won $100,000 Wednesday night playing Powerball. They matched five numbers, 5-6-19-44-50, but missed on the Powerball, 28. "We're just glad he can finally come home," said Amanda Young, of Flatwood. "We're just relieved to get him out of there." Judy and Amanda Young got the news Wednesday night and realized the implications immediately for her father, Amanda Young said. "It...

I recently finished reading a book for my college class. The book is entitled "Working with Words" and it is by Brian Brooks, James L. Pinson, and Jean Gaddy Wilson. The book is supposed to teach you the writer how to write using AP style. I was fine with the book until the 13th chapter. The subject drifts completely away from grammer, and the authors go into a unrelated diatribe on racism. Naturally being a conservative I was very upset by this, and will use this the next time I hear some liberal say that America's colleges aren't left leaning....