Guard who returned fire shaken by museum shooting

After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum would provide a quieter way to make a living. A typical day involved greeting visitors and analyzing images of handbags as they passed through a magnetometer.

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Girl Scout’s cookie-selling scheme crumbles

The cookie crumbled for young Wild Freeborn. The precocious 8-year-old Girl Scout came up with an idea as independent as her name to hit her goal of peddling 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this selling season — but she ran afoul of the group’s parent organization.

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3 accused of buying G.S. cookies with fake $20s

Police in Washington state say they've captured three people who bought Girl Scout cookies with counterfeit $20 bills. Troop 40411 leader KC Gettings says she went to a bank Saturday to get change and was told she had two counterfeit $20 bills.

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Michigan Girl Scout sells 17,328 boxes of cookies

A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.

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Fake $100 Bill Rips Off Girl Scouts

A pair of con artists ripped off a Girl Scout group when they exchanged a fake $100 bill for cookies, police said.

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4 Atlantic City Hooker Deaths Unsolved

Hugh Auslander met Kim Raffo when they were teenagers in Brooklyn. They moved to Florida, got married and had two children. Auslander worked as a carpenter, while his wife took care of the kids and volunteered with the Girl Scouts and the school PTA.

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Man Uses Fake $50 for Girl Scout Cookies

Somebody handed a group of Girl Scouts a bogus $50 bill and left with three boxes of their famous cookies and $40.25 in change, police said Wednesday. Volunteer Catherine Prior was helping her daughter and other Girl Scouts selling cookies last week outside a grocery store in Louisville, about 20 miles north of Denver, when a man bought one box each of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos, paid with the $50 and left, according to a police report.

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Walmart to offer reduced-price versions of Girl Scout Thin Mints and Tagalongs

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"Just when you think your opinion about Walmart might be changing ... just when you think that maybe, just maybe, Walmart was learning to be a better citizen ... Walmart turns around and does something really despicable," Ms. Harquail writes.

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Why is the state of Missouri punishing our nation's most community service-oriented neo-Nazis with irony?

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Country singer Dolly Parton delighted hundreds of Tennessee Girl Scouts when she made a surprise entrance at a ceremony to present them with a patch created in her honor.

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Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected.

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When 8-year-old Wild Freeborn became a Girl Scout earlier this year, she had a simple goal: sell 12,000 boxes of the organization's addictive cookies. She wanted to earn enough money to send her entire troop (all new scouts) to summer camp in Brevard, N.C.

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Who would ripoff pint-sized Girl Scouts? That's what the girls in Troop 40411 in Bremerton, Wash., are asking after a scammer used counterfeit $20 bills to buy cookies from them, according to report by King5 News in Seattle.

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Stealing girl scout cookies is as low as you can go.

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Two little girls and their troop leader were robbed outside a North Side store Wednesday night. The Brownie troop leader became emotional as she told News 4 WOAI how she witnessed the thief steal from the two 3rd graders.

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It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head.

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If you seem to be tearing through those Girl Scout Thin Mints a little faster this year, you aren't imagining things.

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Muslim Girl Scouts Thrive in Minnesota

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A Girl Scout leader and her husband were arrested after an emaciated, terrified and nearly naked 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, saying he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.

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With a sigh, Claremont Mayor Ellen Taylor explained how she became the "Claremont Cookie Monster." It happened during a chance encounter in March outside her husband's law office in the heart of the quaint college town.

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Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official.

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Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes told a group of area Girl Scouts how important it is to set goals and follow through.

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Girl Scouts may be best known for their cookies, but two Ann Arbor, Mich., middle school students sold magazines this year instead of the organization's trademark product because they found out an endangered species is threatened by an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies, The Gran …

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Two middle-school students who started a project to earn a Girl Scout award have ended up rejecting what may be the best known of their organization's symbols: Girl Scout Cookies.

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The Girl Scout cookie season is upon us. That means one thing. The annual cookie sale must be banned.

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Scattered Muslim communities across the United States are forming Girl Scout troops as a sort of assimilation tool to help girls who often feel alienated from the mainstream culture, and to give Muslims a neighborly aura.

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Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement, would have been surprised! He wanted his Scouts to be troopers for the British empire. Young British boys and girls, learning the techniques of survival and camaraderie and civilized behavior even in stressful conditions.

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Some Muslim communities are forming Girl Scout troops to help girls escape the perception that they are different.

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A resolution in the dispute over valuable Boy Scout and Girl Scout camps will have to wait another few months.

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Eight-year-old Teresa Molina doesn't share a personal connection with any of the 138,000 servicemen and servicewomen buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno. But the Brownie scout from San Mateo says she is keenly aware of the price they paid for Troop 1534.

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A Girl Scouts, Firetrucks, Superhero, and Newsvine Rant

Many things have disrupted my life lately and instead of entirely dismissing them I will to share some of the thoughts that have appeared as I'm drifting off to sleep.

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