Justin Clemens loves baseball. Cerebral palsy may limit this 13-year-old's use of his left arm and both legs, but he plays his favorite sport on the Montgomery Miracle League. With help from parents and coaches he swings at pitches and scoots to first base with his walker. "When he's going for home, he feels like a million bucks," says his mother. For the most part, baseball diamonds are unplayable for people with wheelchairs and walkers. That's why five years ago, Diane Alford in Conyers, Ga. started the movement to fund parks that cater to those with physical challenges. Today, there are 17 Miracle Leagues operating across America. Another 61 fields are in some phase of construction, helping to fulfill Diane's goal of 500 diamonds that would serve 1.3 million children. This article shares Justin's special story

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Rescuers search demolished Kansas town

GREENSBURG, Kan. - Rescue workers on Sunday searched for anyone still buried in the heaps of splintered wreckage left after a massive tornado obliterated most of this south-central Kansas town.

Waves of thunderstorms rippled across the Plains states on Sunday, drenching rubble that the Friday night tornado scattered across Greensburg and threatening tornadoes elsewhere.

At least 10 people were known dead from weekend storms — eight in the Greensburg area and two others elsewhere in Kansas — one Friday night and another in violent weather late Saturday, state officials said.

Amid the destruction, rescue workers and officials held out hope that death toll wouldn't rise and that they can rebuild their town, from replacing the destroyed churches down to the town's fire engines.

"At this point, it's still a search and rescue mission," Kansas state trooper Ronald Knoefel said. "We don't want to give up hope."..........

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Pat Pedraja is a sixth-grader on a mission, and nothing -- not leukemia, not chemotherapy and certainly not a lack of public awareness -- is going to keep him from his goal: adding 2007 new donors to the National Marrow Donor Program Registry and raising $100,000 to pay for their cheek swabs, all by the end of the year. If anybody can accomplish such a task, this 11-year-old with the bubbly personality, entrepreneurial spirit and an iron will burnished by adversity is the one. "What I want is to know that I'm helping people," Pat says, with a disarming smile. He recently launched a 30-city cross-country tour to raise awareness of the need for bone-marrow donors. He's also selling advertising space on his balding head, an idea that has generated national attention for its ingenuity. "Might as well use it for something," he says with aplomb Story here

53-year-old Philip Workman's final request before his execution in Nashville Tennesse touched thousands of people. He requested that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person located near Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. When Prison officials refused, saying that they do not donate to charities, a deeply moved public joined hands to fulfill the request. Homeless shelters across Nashville were inundated with donated pizzas all Wednesday. Cliff Tredway, said it's more than pizzas that helped that shelter. "It's the story of a guy whose execution translated into a generous act," he said. "It's people donating to other people they don't know. "It's about a group of people who society often writes off getting a pizza party today."

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Madeleine reward rises to £2.5m

Poster campaigns have begun in Portugal and the UK
Rewards totalling £2.5m have been offered to anyone who can help with information leading to the safe return of Madeleine McCann.
The News of the World and businessmen including Sir Richard Branson have jointly pledged £1.5m. Scottish tycoon Stephen Winyard has offered £1m.

Madeleine's fourth birthday has been marked in the UK and in Portugal, where she disappeared on 3 May.

Posters have been distributed and many have joined an e-mail campaign.

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Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared from an apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz.

Fifty pink balloons were released at the village of Queniborough, close to Rothley, on Saturday, where Madeleine lived until a year ago.

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