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A Hooters location in Charleston, West Virginia, saw hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil in honor of the building being demolished to make way for a gas station. Former employees and residents gathered to share hugs and tears while mourning the loss of the building via candlelight. The location had become a local landmark before its closure. A sizeable group of young men also gathered at the building site to hoot, holler, and even crowd-surf. "Long live Hooters!" the crowd yelled, as the youngsters screamed enthusiastically into local news cameras.

To Those Who Decided to Remain in Ike's Path: We're all painfully aware of the pounding that the Great State of Texas has taken in the wake of Hurricane Ike. One cannot help but pray that this storm and it's consequences don't represent a repeat of the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a storm that stole the lives of between 6000 and 12000 people. It's a relief that the majority of coastal Texans heeded the weeklong warnings from various media sources. For those who for some reason chose to remain, I would like to share the following quote from one...

The campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) is seeking to play down news that the former first lady gave an incorrect account of landing in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire, and refused to answer additional questions about a flap that could hurt her chances of catching Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the Democratic nomination. “We’ve said all we’re going to say on that,” said Deputy Communications Director Phil Singer on a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters. A video from CBS News had shown that Clinton’s version of having come under sniper fire was not...