07/13/11 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Residents of Phonehenge West, the eccentric little village of colorful structures that rose up in the Mojave Desert over the years without benefit of building permits, have been told to start packing.
07/12/11 ACTON, MA--(Marketwire - 07/12/11) - MacPherson Medical, the developers of Stat-Mat, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k)clearance for its flagship product, Stat-Mat Minor. Available and shipping today, Stat-Mat Minor is designed to eliminate inefficient prep time in the operating room. Reducing instrument set-up from as much as 15 minutes to only 10 seconds, it affords the ...
07/10/11 'TIS THE SEASON ... for top-quality golf competition. Three Marin County courses will play host to a trio of prestigious tournaments over the next few weeks, testing the shot-making skills of the best low-handicap golfers from the Bay Area and beyond.
07/08/11 ACTON, Calif. (AP) - Kim Fahey will tell you he never set out to be a folk hero of the Mojave Desert. He says he's just a regular guy who wanted a little place to call his own, where he could pretty much do as he darned well pleased.
07/08/11 As soon as the voluntary quarantine for the deadly horse virus EVH-1 was lifted, riders and their steeds got back to work in the Cutting on the Coast competition at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville from June 30 to last Sunday.
07/08/11 A Los Angeles County fire fighter sprays water on burning trees as he fights the Station Fire in Acton, California. The out of control Station Fire burned more than 160,000 acres.
07/08/11 LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) -- The eccentric California creator of a Mojave Desert compound of whimsical buildings known as Phonehenge West was jailed Friday for failing to obey an order to tear down the illegal structures.
07/08/11 The eccentric creator of a Mojave Desert compound of whimsical buildings known as Phonehenge West was jailed Friday for failing to obey an order to tear down the illegal structures.
07/08/11 A defiant California man who built an eclectic village in the Mojave Desert faces sentencing after being convicted on building code violations. But he is already planning to appeal the sentence, maintaining he has a constitutional right to do what he likes on his property.
07/08/11 The eccentric California creator of a Mojave Desert compound of whimsical buildings known as Phonehenge West was jailed Friday.
07/08/11 The eccentric creator of a Mojave Desert compound of whimsical buildings known as Phonehenge West was jailed for failing to obey an order to tear down the illegal structures
07/01/11 Jazz vocalist Anne Walsh is performing with her trio at the Acton Jazz Club in Acton Massachusetts on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $12. Born and raised in Worcester in a musical household, Walsh, who is now living in California, received a Grammy nomination in 2009 for her album, Pretty World...
06/21/11 Etc. . . . Lucy Acton , editor of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred and a contributor to Daily Racing Form, died of cancer June 7. She was 63. Acton was the daughter of the late Maryland Horse editor Snowden Carter and lived in both Reisterstown and Upperco, Md. During her tenure at Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, the magazine won two Eclipse Awards.
06/16/11 When Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket sells at the end of the month for an expected hundreds of thousands of dollars, two of the singer's tigers -- Sabu and the aptly named Thriller -- stand to benefit.
06/16/11 National Technical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of testing and engineering services, announced today that its National Quality Assurance, USA, (NQA, USA), joint venture subsidiary has formed a partnership with global food safety leader NCS International (NCSI) to offer a wide range of food safety registrations for customers in North America and Europe
06/15/11 In this July 30, 2008 file photo, female inmate firefighters hike to cut fireline on the Telegraph Fire near Yosemite National Park near Mariposa, Calif. California officials are struggling to save a program that puts 4,300 state prison inmates on the front lines fighting wildfires each year.
06/14/11 A rare group of silver panels inscribed with an excerpt from the Guliang commentary to the Chunqiu Zhuan Tang Dynasty, 9th century, 8 1/4 x 5/8in (21 x 1.5cm) dimensions of each strip. Est. $100,000-150,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
06/08/11 The retired telephone service technician who dotted Southern California's desert landscape with a colorful collection of eccentric structures he calls Phonehenge West was convicted Tuesday of nine misdemeanor counts of maintaining buildings for which he never obtained permits.
06/02/11 Comerica Incorporated today announced that it will make a presentation at the Deutsche Bank 2011 Global Financial Services Investor Conference.
06/02/11 Whenever someone went out of their way to tell Sam Dardick he couldn't do something, that just became a challenge he was quick to overcome. A paraplegic at 13 after contracting polio, he learned to ride a wheelchair well enough to become an All-American wheelchair basketball star. | 
