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Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to first appreciate your spouse, celebrate what they mean to you, and to thank them for the day-to-day support and sacrifices they make on behalf of your family. It is also an opportunity to reintroduce romance back into your life. It comes in at a good time of year, when life has settled in for a long winter’s nap, the momentum of New Year resolutions has waned and it still looks pretty bleak outside. Valentine’s Day can a little color, a little romance, and a little kick into your relationship. Here are five ideas...

There have been 64 law enforcement officers shot and killed nationwide in 2016 — the most in five years.  In the past decade, an average of 53 police shooting deaths occurred annually. Does this year's increase indicate that there is less respect for law enforcement these days? Some police officers say it's difficult to tell others it's what they do for a living. In a recent episode of the podcast "This American Life," show producer Miki Meek talked to police officers in South Florida the day after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. The officers said they are hopeful a new...

Listen as Gunfire rings through the air on an average night in a Chicago District        

    A 12-year-old Australian boy in remission from cancer has been granted his request to "blow stuff up" with an elite police squad. Make-A-Wish Australia organized the day for Declan, who was diagnosed in 2015. He was taken behind-the-scenes at a police training facility, participated in a hostage-rescue exercise and detonated a series of explosives. Declan was also given the VIP treatment from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. "Declan hasn't been well lately but today found out what it was like to sit in the prime minister's chair and visited the cabinet room before exploring the rest of Parliament House,"...