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How many of you actually had one of these as a kid: iconic, metal lunch boxes that were slightly rusted, often dented, and blazoned over with pictures of your favorite band, TV show, cartoon, or teen heartthrob? If you were born after 1985, chances are you did not! The National Museum of American History says this year saw the production of the last of the metal lunch boxes. What was on it? Sylvester Stallone as Rambo!

(RAEFORD) – The pre-K teacher involved in the “chicken nuggets” incident in Hoke County changed her version of what happened after undergoing three separate interrogations. Margaret Maynor was brought to tears in the third session. She submitted her resignation soon after. In a highly unusual move, the Hoke County School System released documents from the teacher’s personnel file purportedly showing why the pre-K instructor resigned. Previous articles reported some students with homemade lunches were given trays of school food because their bag lunches didn’t meet federal nutrition standards. One girl didn’t touch her homemade lunch and just ate three school...

Tuesday night, my father won the Arizona Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Like so many times before, I stood behind him on stage proud and hopeful for the future—for both the state of Arizona and our country. It is no secret this seemed to have been the summer of anti-incumbency rhetoric in numerous Republican primaries. This is probably most evident in the Charlie Crist/Marco Rubio race in Florida, where Gov. Crist left the Republican Party to run as an independent against the much more conservative Rubio. It is a complicated time in politics, especially Arizona politics. I recently moved back...

a response to moore's abomination of a montage

Moore posts collage of war dead

A factory worker found an added ingredient lurking next to his ham roll in his lunch box - a poisonous spider. Jonathon Sanger found the tarantula when he opened his packed lunch made for him by his mother. Mr Sanger, 34, who is not afraid of spiders, told her he was "surprised" to find the venomous spider hiding next to a banana. Customs and Excise spokesman Bob Gaiger said the eight-legged creature was identified as an exotic pink-toed tarantula. It is thought it had been hiding inside a bunch of bananas bought at a Co-op supermarket in Cross Hands, South...