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Golf Course Provides Oasis For Low-Income Kids

4:36pm September 01, 2014

by John Bender

All summer long, kids from a gritty neighborhood in Providence, R.I., have been escaping to a golf course and driving range carved out of a vacant lot. At Button Hole, a new generation is learning golf for a dollar a game.

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As Casinos Close, Atlantic City Tries To Pivot Focus Elsewhere

4:36pm September 01, 2014

by Emma Jacobs

Thousands of employees lost their casino jobs with the closure of the Showboat and Revel casinos in Atlantic City. This is the latest development in a painful transition for Atlantic City, which faces greater competition for gamblers from neighboring states.

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Dan Huff rests after a long day's work. He spent much of his life incarcerated in the California prison system. Now, he lives in drug- and alcohol-free transitional housing in Portland, Ore.

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'I Am Not An Inmate ... I Am A Man. And I Have Potential'

12:46am August 31, 2014

by Deena Prichep

Many of the 2 million men serving time in the U.S. have formed their sense of manhood while incarcerated. And becoming a different kind of man isn't easy — either behind bars, or beyond them.

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Beware: Your Uber Ride May Come With A Side Of Oversharing

8:41pm August 30, 2014

The "sharing economy" has created a lot of solutions for cheap rides and places to stay. In a piece for Ozy.com, Pooja Bhatia writes about one undesired byproduct: oversharing.

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Len Elmore: Black Athletes Need To Speak Out About Ferguson

8:39pm August 30, 2014

NBA veteran Len Elmore sees something missing in conversations around Ferguson: the voices of black professional athletes. He talks to Arun Rath about his op-ed in USA Today.

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Rick Perry's Legal Trouble: The Line Between Influence And Coercion

2:12pm August 30, 2014

by Wade Goodwyn

The Texas governor is charged with abuse of office and coercing a public official, but he claims he was just doing what governors do: Vetoing a budget item.

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Legal Questions Loom As Obama Weighs Military Action In Syria

8:40pm August 29, 2014

by Carrie Johnson

The Obama administration is considering whether to broaden its air campaign against the extremist group the Islamic State by striking targets in Syria.

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Federal Judge Blocks Texas Abortion Restrictions

8:40pm August 29, 2014

by Melissa Block

Regulations passed in Texas, which affected clinics that perform abortions there, have been blocked by a federal judge, on the grounds that they unconstitutionally restricted access to legal abortion.

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Edibles available at LoDo Wellness Center, a retail marijuana and medical marijuana dispensary and grow facility in downtown Denver.

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Colorado's Pot Brownies Now Come With Instructions

4:09pm August 29, 2014

by Luke Runyon

Colorado is rolling out regulations for the edible-marijuana sector, including "emergency rules," which spell out serving sizes. But for now, most of the dosage education is falling to pot shops.

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Police arrest a woman in Ferguson, Mo., protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown. Most officers in Ferguson and nearby Jennings are white, but the neighborhoods they police are predominantly African-American.

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Zero-Tolerance Policing Is Not Racism, Say St. Louis-Area Cops

11:57pm August 28, 2014

by Martin Kaste

The protests following Michael Brown's death have rekindled long-standing complaints about racist policing in the St. Louis area. Cops there are now becoming more outspoken in their own defense.

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