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Vermonters Wonder What They Saw in Lake CHARLOTTE, Vt. (AP) -- Two Vermonters fishing for salmon last month just beyond the mouth of the Ausable River on the New York side of the lake saw ripples on the smooth surface. Later, when they saw it again, Dick Affolter and Pete Bodette, Affolter's 34-year-old stepson, used a digital camera to take pictures and video. "We saw something on that lake we've never seen before," said Bodette. "Is what we saw the same thing other people saw, and they called Champ? I don't know." Champ is the name that has been given...

In the constitution it says we have freedom to worship whatever we want, that doesn't hold true in Alabama. I support Judge Moore who shoudn't take the monument down. I want your oppinion

For most people, Moscow's underworld conjures up images of high-rolling gangsters driving around in expensive cars. For Vadim Mikhailov, Moscow's underworld is a tangible place of wonder and awe, a site of endless tunnels and labyrinths, clandestine streams and strange, unexplainable phenomena. "Moscow has the largest, deepest and most complicated network of underground channels of any city in the world," Mikhailov said. In 1990, Mikhailov founded Diggers of the Underground Planet, a loose confederacy of subterranean explorers. The group first formed in Moscow, but now it has members in major cities all over the world. Mikhailov's love affair with the...