07/19/11 One hundred and fifteen drivers from 45 states representing the FedEx Corp. operating companies will compete in the National Truck Driving Championships in Orlando, Fla., August 9-13.
07/18/11 The second high-profile assassination of an Afghan politician in a week, the killing of Hamid Karzai's long-time adviser Jan Mohammad Khan has Afghansworrying that anyone close to the President is a target
07/16/11 There is a need to replace media consultants including some old media hands in the Prime Minister's Office. We need strategists not a bunch of people with outdated mindsets. People do not trust the government and it is time to fix that problem by being truthful and transparent. No more goreng type PR. APCO should be fired forthwith because they don't understand Malaysians and our culture.--Din ...
07/11/11 NEW YORK -- The editors and tasters of Wine Enthusiast Magazine scanned the U.S. in search of the absolute best in wine and fine dining in the country. Below you'll find the entire list, coast to coast, of this year's best wine restaurants, as published in the August 2011 issue .
07/09/11 Patna, July 9:Community policing introduced in Maoist-affected areas about three years ago has started yielding results in Bihar. This was evident from the surrender of nine hardcore Maoists, including two self-proclaimed area commanders and one former area commander, before the Rohtas police today.Rohtas superintendent of police Manu Maharaj said the Naxalites, including two area commanders ...
07/06/11 The fact that Israeli and Turkish officials have begun to renew dialogue at a time of significant uncertainty and turmoil in the broader Middle East is, of course, no coincidence. Israel and Turkey are rare anchors of stability in an increasingly volatile region.
07/06/11 Former Gov. Bob Riley was in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital Tuesday after a harrowing June 26 motorcycle wreck that left the 66-year-old dazed and confused on a rain-slick Alaska highway.
07/05/11 The Yukon River flows its first 700 miles through one mountain range or another. Around where it passes the town of Circle, though, the mountains run out and for the next 250 miles the river is free to spill itself across the huge basin of the Yukon Flats.
07/05/11 By Phyllis Day, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Brooksville Brooksville Book Discussion Group: 6 p.m. July 18, Lykes Memorial Library, 239 Howell Ave. The book to be discussed is My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey , by Jill Bolte Taylor. In 1996, at age 37, Taylor suffered a stroke. The book chronicles the Harvard-trained brain scientist's journey from ...
07/03/11 Northwest News is a daily roundup of what's happening in the Pacific Northwest.
07/02/11 This was an enormous week for Google, and everyone who watches them.Just thinking about Google+, Google's (re)entry into social media, is not thinking big enough. What we saw this week was the first big move of Google in the Larry Page era, bringing forth the first changes and efficiencies he seems to have been seeking when named chief executive last January. And the upshot is an effort to make ...
06/29/11 The Nor-Cal Cruisers 18 Gold girls fastpitch team started off with a bang on a 14-day trip to Colorado for two college showcase tournaments.
06/28/11 Former Gov. Bob Riley had driven his Harley all the way to the Arctic Circle before the Alaska crash that left him hospitalized.
06/28/11 A former governor of Alabama is at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital recovering from a motorcycle accident suffered on the Dalton Highway Sunday afternoon. Bob Riley, 66, who retired in January after t...
06/28/11 An Alaska State Trooper report said former Gov. Bob Riley was returning from the Arctic Circle on Sunday when he crashed his Harley Davidson motorcycle near Fairbanks.
06/27/11 VICTORVILLE A transient arrested last week for attempted rape is now suspected of vandalizing and setting fire to a vehicle, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Victorville station officials said.Michael Garnett, 20, was arrested June 20 for the attempted rape of a transient woman in the area...
06/20/11 Kenneth E. Melson's exit would be the biggest response yet to the uproar over an operation that allowed the sale of weapons to suspected agents of Mexican drug cartels. The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is expected to step down because of a controversial gun-running investigation that allowed weapons to be sold to suspected agents of Mexican ...
06/13/11 Through the Mountaineering Challenge for Combat Wounded Veterans, several Tampa Bay area veterans want to show others injured in war their lives are not over.
06/13/11 A new Gallup poll provided more evidence of Romney's growing strength as frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, boosting the chance that other GOP White House hopefuls will seek to raise doubts about him in voters' minds at their New Hampshire debate Monday evening and...
06/13/11 KENAI, Alaska - A popular farm animal met an unfortunate end at Diamond M Ranch Resort. Obama the Llama was fatally injured by three dogs on June 4. "They chased him down and mauled him to de... |