Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family’s fondness for Baby Boomers’ chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can’t bake them fast enough.
“Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. “Now, it’s like ‘I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.’”
The Obamas became frequent visitors to [...]

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Police say the shooting was apparently sparked by a dispute between two couples who had ‘previous hostility.’ Other shoppers hide or flee in panic.
Reporting from Palm Desert and Los Angeles — Most shoppers headed to the Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Friday morning clutching their “door buster” ads and their shopping lists. At [...]

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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
Wal-Mart stampede, caught on camera

A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an “out-of-control” mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store’s front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees [...]

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Pastor who helped get “under God” in Pledge dies
AP News – ALEXANDRIA, Pa. – A church official says the clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance has died in Alexandria, Pa. The Rev. George M. Docherty was 97.
Nancy Taylor, historian for the Huntingdon Presbyterian [...]

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