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Richard Thorpe worries the pathway he took to the rural ranching life he enjoys today may be blocked for kids who grow up in town.

Thorpe, owner of the Mesa TY Ranch east of Winters, Texas, strongly opposes a proposed U.S. Labor Department rule that would bar young teenagers from working on farms and ranches where they're not related to the owner-operator.

PUYALLUP, Wash. - Long before Josh Powell killed himself and his 7- and 5-year-old sons in a Sunday fire, the pages of his parents' divorce file portrayed him as a seriously troubled teen who attempted suicide, killed pet gerbils, once threatened his mother with a butcher knife and early on adopted his father's allegedly disparaging view of women.

DULUTH, Minn. - A close-up of a white woman's face confronts motorists from billboards plastered along major roads here with the message, in large, black letters: "It's hard to see racism when you're white."

A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket Saturday's funeral for the brothers killed by their father, Josh Powell, and Occupy Seattle members plan a counter protest.

Listening to the 911 tapes now, after we know what was about to happen at family killer Josh Powell's house, the 911 call takers seem agonizingly dense and rude.

They ask questions that seem bizarrely off point, constantly interrupting and speaking over callers as they try to explain themselves.

In what is being called the most costly single disaster in the history of the American wine industry, Mark C. Anderson admitted he burned up hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of fine wine.

Robert Perry leans forward in his rocking chair and picks up a small bottle, full of a pink, nearly clear liquid, and he grins.

PICKENS, S.C. - "That's my medicine," he said. "I call it my 'fountain of youth.' It keeps me young and my muscles limber. I'm 71, but I feel like a teenager."

It was double trouble for two brothers in northwestern Minnesota, who separately crashed through thin ice in their new vehicles last week.

Both survived to tell the tale.

A need to improve fuel economy in new cars is turning the spare tire into a real fifth wheel -- one that many manufacturers are leaving out.

SALT LAKE CITY - A cousin of Josh Powell is imploring the FBI to launch an investigation into Facebook postings that he claims "cyberbullied" Josh Powell and possibly contributed to the man's decision to kill himself and his children in a dramatic Washington house fire over the weekend.