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I'm about to vote early (I'll be deer hunting on election day). I live in Minnesota CD2. Currently, I'm represented by democrat Angie Craig. She is running for a third term. Her voting record is 100% in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi. She is anti-gun and very pro abortion. And she has a wife. Paula Overby, formerly Paul Overby, represents the Legal Marijuana Now party. He/she/it runs for something every two years and never gets more than a couple percent of the vote. He/she/it has previously run for the Senate and the house as a democrat, an independent and a member...

(CNN)Some time in May 2014, Paul Overby, an American writer in his 70's, disappeared as he was traveling between Khost in Afghanistan and North Waziristan in Pakistan -- a region rife with the Taliban and terror groups such as al Qaeda. He has not been heard from since. On Wednesday, his wife went public for the first time with his disappearance, providing a statement to CNN and other media outlets. . . Overby's wife, who asked not to be identified by name, last heard from her husband on May 16, 2014, as he was preparing to cross the border into...

William Thomas "Billy" Overby, a member of the Confederate guerrilla group Mosby's Rangers, lived most of his life in Sharpsburg, not far from what is today Thomas Crossroads. He was hanged on Sept. 23, 1864, in Front Royal, Va., by a band of rogue Federals. Offered freedom if he would disclose Mosby's whereabouts, Overby supposedly told his captors, minutes before the noose tightened, "Mosby will hang 10 of you for every one of us." For years those words haunted Carolyn Cary, longtime Fayette County historian. Last March she self-published "William Thomas Overby: Proud Partisan Ranger," the first biography of this...