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By Sabrina Eaton -- Plain Dealer

WASHINGTON - A service dog named Liberty has liberated retired Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Garvey of Maryland from some of the post traumatic stress disorder symptoms he experienced upon returning home from Afghanistan.

"He is my grounding rod, he calms me down so quickly," said Garvey. "If I ever get disoriented, he is like my little rock."

By Jessica Wehrman & Jana Heigl -- The Columbus Dispatch

WASHINGTON — During Thomas Alva Edison’s youth in northern Ohio's Milan, he was known as a restless and imaginative boy whose teacher nevertheless reported to his mother that he was “addled” and “too stupid to learn.”

That curious boy grew up to invent the light bulb, the phonograph, the telegraph, cement and an electronic vote recorder that he unsuccessfully tried to sell to Congress when he was 22. (They eventually embraced the idea, 104 years later.)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Everyone wanted a piece of Thomas Alva Edison on Wednesday afternoon.

Speaking at a U.S. Capitol dedication ceremony for a statue of the prolific inventor from tiny Milan, Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recalled Edison's time working in a Kentucky telegraph office.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi likened Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, to Menlo Park, California: ground zero for Silicon Valley's innovation.