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Ohio State University football star was saved by his mother as a young woman when she decided not to have him aborted. Today he’s one of the best football players in the nation. Ohio State University football star JK Dobbins is tearing up the Big Ten conference competition. Yesterday he ran for 211 yards and four touchdowns against a strong Michigan team at Michigan. During the game an announcer told the story of why his mom calls him her ‘miracle baby’ – JK Dobbins mom, Maya, became pregnant when she was 18 years old. She went to the doctor because...

Excerpt - LITTLE ROCK - Taking steps to keep one of its own out of the Legislature, the Democratic Party of Arkansas changed its rules Saturday and refused to certify former state Rep. Dwayne Dobbins for the November general election ballot. At their state convention, Democrats approved a rewrite of party rules to disqualify any person who has resigned from public office as a provision of a plea agreement to avoid felony prosecution from being certified for the ballot. Dobbins, of North Little Rock, was the only candidate to file this spring for the House seat he resigned in 2005...

The History Channel now is must taping. At this moment!!

As American post-conflict combat deaths in Iraq overtook the wartime number, the administration counseled patience. "The war on terror is a test of our strength. It is a test of our perseverance, our patience, and our will," President Bush told an American Legion convention. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice embellished the message with what former White House speechwriters immediately recognize as a greatest-generation pander. "There is an understandable tendency to look back on America's experience in postwar Germany and see only the successes," she told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in San Antonio, Texas, on Aug. 25. "But as some...