Word: ravenna
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This week in a court in Ravenna, Italy, Western Kentucky University will square off with Mediaset, a TV company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. WKU, whose mascot has been the fuzzy-slipper-like BIG RED, right, since 1979, claims that GABIBBO, the mascot for Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo...
Michelle Bica, 39, prepared methodically for her baby. She decorated a room in her home in Ravenna, Ohio, readied lots of baby bottles and set up the monitor in the kitchen. She had miscarried last year but soon announced happily that she was pregnant again. As her due date approached, however, she kept bumping it later and later. Then, on Sept. 27, she presented her husband Thomas with a healthy boy. The birth, she explained, happened quickly and dramatically. Her water broke, an ambulance came to take her to a hospital in Akron, and she left the facility almost immediately...
Theresa Andrews, 23, was pregnant and was last seen on Sept. 27, when her husband Jon left their Ravenna home to go to his job as a sheet-metal worker. He spoke to his wife at about 9 that morning. She had just received a call from a woman interested in buying their black 1999 Jeep Wrangler after seeing a FOR SALE sign in its window. He never heard back from Theresa, and by the time he returned home, the Jeep was gone and so was his wife. But her purse and cell phone remained at the house...
...left to mourn and ask why. "For all intents and purposes," says detective Greg Francis of the Ravenna police department, Thomas Bica "thought this was his baby boy." Jon Andrews, has finally brought his son Oscar Gavin home. But he will eventually have to answer his child's unavoidable question: "How was I born...