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• Medal of Honor grove in disrepair (video) July 29, 2010
  VALLEY FORGE — A 52-acre Medal of Honor grove at the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is in poor condition, with many of the memorials sitting amid weed-strewn lots and state markers propped against trees.
• 2nd US sailor's body recovered in Afghanistan July 29, 2010
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.
• Ariz. immigration law ruling could send message to states July 29, 2010
  PHOENIX (AP) — States that had been watching Arizona's immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration's core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government.
• Fatal crash spurs change in bus driver license checks July 29, 2010
  NORRISTOWN — In the wake of a fatal crash involving a Perkiomen Valley school bus driver, and just in time for the new school year, state officials finalized plans to provide more information about drivers' records to employers of commercial drivers.