Everybody's Got a Story
No technology needed to find stuff in crowded repair shop
Comments | RecommendMike Urban likes the simple life. No cell phone. No computer. No steady paycheck. No wife, at the moment. "None of that stuff," he says, sounding very happy. He lives with his cat in his electronics repair shop in downtown Green Mountain Falls. It's as...
Teen’s gift of recitation gets her a chance to win $20,000
Comments | RecommendScary poem chick. Fifteen-year-old Brittany Harden says that's how she's known after reading a dark poem by Mary Karr to the entire school. It goes with the turf of a state poetry champ. This week, the Palmer High School freshman is representing Colorado...
Scared of talking in public? She can help you sound smart
Comments | RecommendCatherine Durkin Robinson puts words in people's mouths. For a price. The 38-year-old speechwriter charges 50 cents a word for toasts and wedding vows. Her rate for politicking Democrats is $1 a word. No such deal for the GOP. "Five dollars for Republicans,"...
Mom of Year says cooking, perfect kids not required
Comments | RecommendNote to all aspiring Mothers of the Year: You can have bratty kids and wild hair. No tiara - or apron - required....
Writer gets creative with boxes
Comments | RecommendWords or wires? Allison Filkins twists both. By day, she's an orthodontic assistant. That's how she supports her adventures in writing. Filkins, 23, recently self-published a 470-page book called "The Amazings." No, it's not a dental chair adventure....
Private eye lives life on the edge
Comments | RecommendNext time a pizza guy shows up at the door with a hot pepperoni pie you didn't order ... it might be no mistake.Your spouse might be hip to your steamy cheating.The pizza delivery ruse - a sure way to check out who's inside a house - is an old trick of...
Blogger looks at local media from behind the scenes
Comments | RecommendHe's a fly on the wall, in the form of a tall, bearded, bald guy in a green Subaru wagon. Whether he's pesky is . . . well, you be the judge....
Bright eyes in a broken body, and a mother trying to cope
Comments | RecommendPosters cover the walls. DVDs line the shelves. Females stroll past his door.A typical 22-year-old guy's room?Hardly. Christopher Williams' dorm is a nursing home.A 2006 near-fatal car crash caused severe brain injury and a fractured body that's confined...
Refugee's flight from Sudan leads to Springs
Comments | RecommendDang.The tall man says - and spells - it often.After all, it's his name."People think I am kidding," says the 27-year-old Sudanese refugee. "Sometimes they laugh."The right way to say it is actually "dong," which gets him more ribbing.It's not easy being...
Barber gets to take a sharp object to Bruce
Comments | RecommendA lot of people might think about using sharp instruments on Rep. Douglas Bruce. Phil Hansen gets the privilege every six weeks. The unruly politician is no match for the veteran barber. 'I don't let him talk politics,' Hansen says. 'If he starts,...
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