Blood stirs talk in Marietta

In the barbershop and the deli, outside the post office and at a market, Marietta folks are buzzing about the weird, disturbing discovery. A large puddle of human blood was found Saturday morning in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store just outside of town. Some people are saying …

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Suspicious Passaic package found to be not a danger

Residents and businesses near the intersection of Grove Street and Broadway were evacuated for about two hours Tuesday as investigators determined that suspicious packages found in a newspaper box near the post office did not pose a threat to the public, authorities said. More: continued here

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D.C. chess players are happy to meet their match in Cuba

Washington’s famed Cosmos Club (incorporated 1878) counts among its members some of the city’s greatest minds. I don’t go there much anymore (my late father-in-law was a member), but I remember there was one wall devoted to members who had won Nobel or Pulitzer prizes and another devoted to members …

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