05/06/11 Golf is big business for South Carolina's northern coastline, known as the Grand Strand, during the spring shoulder season as players fill up courses, book hotels and eat at area restaurants. And visit strip clubs.
05/05/11 Count Belinda McClurg of Wasilla as a huge fan of Alaska Standard Time. When she learned the ice went out at 5:24 p.m. ADT Wednesday, she thought her guess was an hour off.
04/30/11 Crystal "Shy" Roberts climbed the roughly 10-foot pole at the Penthouse Club, gripping its metallic surface with her thighs as it swayed a foot in both directions.
04/29/11 HELENA- On the third Saturday in May, May 21, Montana's 2011 general fishing season opens. Fishing on the state's lakes and reservoirs and some designated rivers is generally open year round.
04/21/11 Capt. George H. Wilkins announced that he and Carl B. Elelson had flown over the North Pole from Point Barrow, Alaska, and had a narrow escape from disaster at the end of their adventure. The narrow escape ...
04/01/11 Eighteen years ago today, Alan Kulwicki died. SB Nation Atlanta looks back at three defining moments in his all-too-brief career that took place at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Eighteen years ago today, an unthinkable tragedy occured. On approach to an airport in Johnson City, Tennessee, a plane plunged into the ground, killing all aboard. Among the dead: 1992 Winston Cup Champion Alan Kulwicki ...
03/29/11 Eleven people were hurt -- two seriously -- when gunmen opened fire near 75th Street and Vincennes Avenue in Englewood this morning and a fleeing car smashed into a CTA bus, witnesses and officials said.
03/29/11 With the 2011 legislative session already three-quarters done, only a single bill has yet passed the Alaska Legislature and been signed into law by Gov. Sean Parnell.
03/27/11 In February Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. president Tom Barrett told the Alaska House Resources Committee that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system, known as TAPS, had come close to the brink of a major outage when forced into a winter shutdown after an oil leak in January at Pump Station 1 at the northern terminus of the line.
03/27/11 Lobbying the Alaska Legislature is an increasingly lucrative job for the top professionals, with nearly a dozen lobbyists reporting they collected over $400,000 in fees last year from interests looking to influence the state's lawmakers.
03/08/11 Corpus Christi was swept on home ice over the latter part of the weekend and last evening by the Amarillo Bulls. It is a quick turnaround for the team though as the Texas Tornado swirl into town for two games on Thursday and Friday nights.
03/03/11 Luc Hardy, a resident of Cos Cob where he lives with his wife and two daughters, is an intrepid French-American explorer on an environmental mission. His day job is as a venture capitalist, but last year he led a 16-person expedition within 500 miles of the North Pole, to the Canadian Arctic . He is the founder of the Pax Arctica Initiative created to promote awareness of the threats facing the ...
03/03/11 Homer High School athletic teams will have the chance to challenge those from more similarly-sized schools, thanks to a recent decision by the Alaska School Activities Association board.
03/02/11 Advocates of pre-kindergarten and other programs hope to win funding from the Alaska Legislature when the House Finance Committee begins to take testimony on the state budget today.
03/02/11 TWICE AS NICE: Toyota driver Kyle Busch was triumphant in two of the three NASCAR national series events last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. On Friday, he pulled his Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) Tundra into victory lane in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race.
03/01/11 Lathrop Principal Karen Gaborik has been named the 2011 high school principal of the year in Alaska, the Alaska Association of Secondary School Principals says. Gaborik, a graduate of Ben Eiels...
02/18/11 Penelope Wanelle Welch, 70, of Fayetteville, died February 10, 2011. She was preceded in death by her parents George Harvey and Lathan Welch. She is survived by her daughters Anita and Terry Glaze of Fayetteville, Michelle and Tyler Smith of McDonough; son Derek and Katherine Copeland of North Pole, AK; grandchildren Megan and Alysa Glaze of Fayetteville, Drew Smith of McDonough, Jordan Copeland ...
02/17/11 An observer watching the three-team wrestling meet at Mirror Lake Middle School on Feb. 14 would have little clue that the sport is in peril.
02/16/11 A Russian-Canadian team of adventurers set out this week from Russia to drive to the North Pole and then south back to land in Canada. The vehicles being used in the Polar Ring Expedition are designed to float across any open water they encounter, reports Canada's National Post . The group has already completed a partial circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean on land and intends to complete that ...
02/16/11 Posted: Feb 16, 2011 10:34 pm EST (By Correne Coetzer) The Greenland sledge-haul season will have an early kick off with Georg Sichelschmidt and Ondrej Kotas who plan to start their off-the-beaten-track ski expedition around February 20. |