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BOSTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, today announced the 2012 recipients of its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature community investment programs, recognizes students' leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service. Massachusetts Lieutenant...

CONCORD, N.H., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, today announced the 2012 recipients of its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature community investment programs, recognizes students' leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service. New Hampshire Governor...

PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Assist America, Princeton, N.J., the premier provider of global emergency services through employee benefit plans, has launched Assist America Mobile, an optimization of the company's website for users of the BlackBerry. Members of Assist America who have a BlackBerry can now view and navigate the Assist America website seamlessly on their mobile devices, without need for resizing or extensive scrolling. The site is fully functional on all modern...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two-time Major League Baseball (MLB) Manager of the Year Joe Torre, a cancer survivor, will be featured on this month's episode of Sharing Miracles - a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients. Sharing Miracles airs every Sunday morning on more than 300 television stations nationwide. An iconic figure in baseball, Torre was a noted slugger for the Milwaukee (and later...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-profit organization Students Run Los Angeles (SRLA), an after-school program that each year prepares an average of 3,000 at-risk secondary school students to complete the Los Angeles Marathon, will commemorate 20 years of community service at a California-style beach party to be held on Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Gladstone's of Malibu restaurant in Pacific Palisades. The celebration will mark the organization's legacy of helping students develop...

A Star-Studded Gala Under the Stars at the Bal Harbour Shops Raised More Than $3.8 Million for the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis - Seal and The Pointer Sisters Performed to a Sold Out Crowd and Designer Michael Kors Presented Runway Collection Tommy Lee Jones, Gloria & Emilio Estefan, Anna Kournikova, Jerry Rice, Nick Buoniconti, Jack Nicklaus, Scottie Pippen and Pat Riley Among the Stars in Attendance MIAMI, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Destination Fashion 2009, Presented by Stewart...

A 2-year-old girl was in serious but stable condition Thursday after being run over by a lawn mower. Clinton firefighters responded to a home about 8 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a girl trapped in a lawn mower. "Upon arrival, the girl was freed from the lawn mower," said Clinton assistant fire chief Guido Smith. Fire officials said the girl was riding on the back of a four- wheeler being driven by her father, who was towing a piece of lawn- mowing equipment. The girl fell off, and the lawn...