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Kobe Bryant‘s pain ended up being charity’s gain.   The Los Angeles Lakers guard auctioned off the mask he wore this season after breaking his nose and suffering a concussion in the NBA All-Star Game to raise money for the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation.     Jesse Johnson/US PresswireThe maskContinue Reading

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Krystal Greco (16 years old) is once again able to enjoy her passion – horseback riding.  Two years ago she became suddenly paralyzed from a ruptured disk in her spine.   She spent nine weeks rehabilitating at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury where she learnedContinue Reading

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BALTIMORE — Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton‘s torrid 2012 season now includes his first career four-home-run game, all of them two-run shots in a 10-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles.   “Obviously it’s, other than being in the World Series, the highlight of my big-league career,” Hamilton said. Hamilton homered off Jake Arrieta in the firstContinue Reading

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CALGARY — He’s not quite out of diapers yet, but a Calgary toddler has become the youngest person in Canada to join the ranks of the international high IQ society, Mensa. Meet Anthony Popa Urria. At two years and nine months, Anthony has a staggeringly high IQ score of 154,Continue Reading

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Loyola High seniors teach economics to junior high students at a Pasadena-based center that helps educate youths who were abused or need special attention. There was a shy seventh-grade boy sitting at his desk in the far back of the classroom, head down, looking bored and uninterested.Then Loyola High kickerContinue Reading

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OK outdoorsmen and women, are you ready for the Supermoon? NASA scientists say this full moon Saturday night will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than any full moon this year. The scientific term is “perigee moon,” but all we need to know is that it’s going toContinue Reading

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