Mr. Aguilar eventually pulled a young gator from the river bottom, and I snapped a photo.

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Russell, who lived with Tsarnaev and their young daughter in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, has been staying in Rhode Island with her family and has not been charged with any crime.

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They chased and terrified a young Moroccan man, then pushed him into the river where he drowned.

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Continue along Pontocho, past the theatre where geisha perform public dances in autumn and spring, and you will come out near the river again and Sanjo Bridge, where much of young Kyoto is hastening towards a night on the town, or waiting for dates near the temple commemorating 39 noblewomen and children executed along the riverbank.

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Last Sunday, I witnessed millions of bedraggled men, women and children, young and old, on their way to a holy bath trudging towards the river silently carrying their bare belongings in sacks and cheap rexine bags.

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When my children were young we especially savored Newport House , a lovely Georgian big house on the banks of the Newport River nestled in the village of Newport, County Mayo.

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The young eels, called glass eels when they are at sea, are then carried by the Gulf Stream and reach river systems across Europe.

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The father of the Toms River, New Jersey, boy -- who died earlier this week after being shot by his young playmate -- said he and his wife decided to donate Brandon's organs, in hopes some good will come of their tragedy.

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