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Robert A. Van De Hey, Appleton, age 86, died on Thursday, December 8th, 2005, at Pine Manor Healt... Van De Hey, Robert A....

Robert A. Van De Hey, Appleton, age 86, died on Thursday, December 8th, 2005, at Pine Manor Health Care Center in Clintonville. Bob was born August 18, 1919, to the late Josephine (Zwick) and John Van De Hey in Kaukauna. He married the former Rita Diemeier on July 5, 1947, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and celebrated 58 years together. Bob enlisted into the U.S. Army in 1941 and proudly serve...

CHAMPION: Iditarod winner plans to mush again, see daughters grow up. With the single-minde... Butcher says she'll conquer

CHAMPION: Iditarod winner plans to mush again, see daughters grow up.

With the single-minded focus she once applied to winning 1,100-mile sled dog races, four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher has launched a seven-month campaign to beat her leukemia and an associated blood disease.

"My whole life has been about challenges -- I love challenges," she said Friday.

"I've had t...

Florida's orange and grapefruit harvests are tumbling by double digits because of Hurricane Wilm... Wilma takes big bite out of

Florida's orange and grapefruit harvests are tumbling by double digits because of Hurricane Wilma, government crop forecasters said Friday in the first official update since the powerful storm struck South Florida in late October.

The orange crop will be about 15 percent smaller than expected, while the grapefruit estimate dropped by a third -- declines that are sure to prompt higher pri...

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BOSTON - Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. are dueling to pay more than $20 billion to buy Guidant Corp., a medical device maker struggling to repair its reputation amid product recalls and liability lawsuits...

HESSTON - When Kathy Crowder is nervous, she giggles. "She giggles," Dave Crowder, her husb... 'Always something more'.

HESSTON - When Kathy Crowder is nervous, she giggles.

"She giggles," Dave Crowder, her husband of 27 years, said, "a lot."

It's not that Kathy Crowder is a nervous person. She tries not to worry, even tries not to worry about worrying too much, but she can't help it.

For two years, she's been battling leukemia, a fight that leaves her physically exhausted, forced to...

Annual health-care summit set for Wednesday in Salem Salem will be the site of the second a... Annual health-care summit set fo

Annual health-care summit set for Wednesday in Salem

Salem will be the site of the second annual Oregon Health Care Summit.

The meeting will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Santiam River Room of the Salem Conference Center, 200 Commercial St. SE.

The luncheon keynote speaker is Anthony Carvalho, who will talk about Florida's recently approved demonstration projec...

WGNO's plight is representative of broadcasters' struggles across the Gulf Coast. All the New O... On the Air, but Bad Off...

WGNO's plight is representative of broadcasters' struggles across the Gulf Coast. All the New Orleans stations except for Belo's CBS affiliate WWL were temporarily knocked off the air, and stations spent time broadcasting from other faraway facilities.

Over in Biloxi, Miss., the situation was equally dire. ABC affiliate WLOX managed to stay on the air throughout the storm even though p...

FRANKFURT (AFX) - The German subsidiary of US conglomerate 3M Co wants to expand its business in ... 3M German subsidiary seeks

FRANKFURT (AFX) - The German subsidiary of US conglomerate 3M Co wants to expand its business in Germany and further afield through acquisitions, particularly in the health sector, its managing director Kurt-Henning Wiethoff told Financial Times Deutschland in an interview.

'We have so far not attained the growth levels that we hoped to reach in Germany, but the necessary restructuring m...

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