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Why It's Illegal To Braid Hair Without A License

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Jestina Clayton, would-be braider.

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Originally published on Thu June 21, 2012 6:21 am

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Jestina Clayton learned how to braid hair as a girl growing up in Sierra Leone. When she was 18, she moved to America. Got married, had a couple kids, went to college.

When she graduated from college, she found that the pay from an entry-level office job would barely cover the cost of child care. So she decided to work from her home in Utah and start a hair-braiding business.

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'Dynasty' Costume Designer Nolan Miller Dies

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 8:18 am

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Renee Montagne has a remembrance of fashion designer Nolan Miller, who died last week at the age of 79. Miller was best known for his costume design for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dynasty.

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Tue June 12, 2012

50 Years Later, Mystery Of Alcatraz Escape Endures

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Alcatraz on the 50th anniversary of the escape of inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.

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Dave Widner holds up an article about his uncles, inmates John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.

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Visitors to Alcatraz look down the hall that the inmates used to escape from their cells.

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U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke, the official investigator assigned to the case of the escaped inmates.

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Anglin family members wore this shirt on the anniversary of the Anglin brothers' escape.

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The choppy waters around Alcatraz island.

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Alcatraz on the 50th anniversary of the escape of inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin.

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Marie Anglin Widner returned to the island where her brothers escaped.

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 1:37 pm

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Fifty years ago three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history from what was billed as the nation's only "escape-proof prison" — Alcatraz.

Most people assume the men have been at the bottom of the bay or were swept out to sea since the night they broke free, tunneling out of their cells in part with spoons from the kitchen and climbing the prisons' plumbing to the roof.

6:38 am

Tue June 12, 2012

Stealthy Cow May Stand In For Psychic Octopus

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 8:18 am

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Yvonne the Cow became famous for her escape from a German farm, and certain slaughter. For months, she eluded her owner and a bull sent to lure her out. Now Yvonne may replace the late Paul the Octopus, who predicted the winner for all of Germany's 2010 World Cup soccer matches.

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Tue June 12, 2012

Massachusetts Town OKs Fines For Profanity

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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 8:18 am

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