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Toddler takes first steps after mower mishap
Wearing a superhero cape and her new prosthetics, dotted with Dora the Explorer stickers, two-year-old Ireland Nugent walks again after she was maimed by a lawnmower at her family’s home in Florida. Greg Fox, of WESH, reports.

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Image: Ken Feinberg, administrator for "The One Fund, Boston," waits to begin a town hall style meeting about the fund in Boston
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One Fund Boston receives over 200 applications
The primary compensation fund for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings has garnered upwards of $50 million and received more than 200 applications for payments, according to the fund’s administrators.

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