06/21/11 It's a familiar scene with a major twist: New York lawmakers meet behind closed doors in the frantic last days of a six-month legislative session with a big pile of seemingly unconnected issues on the table in front of them.
06/21/11 MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. It's a familiar scene with a major twist: New York lawmakers meet behind closed doors in the frantic last days of a six-month legislative session with a big pile of seemingly unconnected issues on the table in front of them. This year, however, there is intense national focus on one big issue left dangling: gay marriage. The 32 Republicans meeting ...
06/21/11 Legislative backroom dealing has cleared the way for a much anticipated and nationally scrutinized showdown on gay marriage in New York as early as Wednesday as closed-door talks over additional religious protections appeared to show progress.
06/14/11 The Community Sports Calendar on Columbian.com is updated each Tuesday. Submit items for the calendar by sending an e-mail to paul.danzer@columbian.com, or call 360-735-4521.
06/14/11 Set Your Goals have premiered their brand new video for their latest single "Certain"
06/14/11 The Devil Wears Prada have finished work on their new studio album and have set a September 13th release date
06/13/11 Maryland Chamber of Commerce Honors Berkshire in Small Business Category of 51-200 Employees
06/13/11 American Airlines, in cooperation with SCORE, an organization dedicated to helping small businesses succeed through mentoring and training, today announced the launch of its small business contest ? Flights.Camera.Action. ? to support the growth of small and medium businesses .
06/13/11 Pacific Coast League: The eventual move of the Tucson Padres in the Triple-A PCL to Escondido (CA), just north of San Diego, may be delayed as the city is planning to build a business park on the land previously designated for a proposed ballpark.
06/12/11 COLUMBIA, S.C. - For the first time this season, Jim Penders said, he felt UConn lost to a better team. The defending champions South Carolina Gamecocks, indeed, showed they know how to win big games, though the Huskies gave a good account of themselves. Here is coach Jim Penders' opening remarks following UConn's season-ending 8-2 loss.
06/09/11 Researchers from Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I., report that medical management may be preferred over surgery for children with orbital cellulitis, an acute infection of the tissues surrounding the eye. They have determined the criteria for surgical intervention should be dependent upon the size of a subperiosteal abscess (SPA).
06/09/11 Bruce Stave didn't care for Sondra Astor's dress, hairdo or outspokenness when he met her during a camp counselors meeting on June 16, 1957.
06/09/11 Here's a look at some of the reasons the University of South Carolina baseball team has been successful this season, according to Travis Chaney of The Charleston Post and Courier. The Gamecocks host UConn in an NCAA Super Regional beginning Saturday night: The Charleston Post and Courier story: COLUMBIA -- Maybe it's just not their year. That was a fairly common sentiment during South Carolina's ...
06/09/11 A line of powerful thunderstorms sweeping across the Tri-State Area has knocked out power to thousands of homes, including many in Connecticut.
06/09/11 It was a nice day for running on Sunday as the 2011 Zooma Annapolis races brought more than 2500 participants to town. Overcast skies, occasional sprinkles and equitable temperatures were the order of the day. Many entrants were running for various charities and causes and all runners were spurred on at various points by enthusiastic race volunteers and friends of runners who served as great ...
06/08/11 ( American College of Chest Physicians ) Medical studies from the June issue of Chest are now available and cover non-physician staffing in the ICU; DVT prevention studies lacking for high risk; and noninvasive PE diagnosis.
06/08/11 AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - 06/08/11) - Today LIVE STRONG announced the recipients of the LIVE STRONG Community Impact Project , which is investing more than $700,000 to bring proven cancer support programs to 93 sites across the United States. This represents the largest number of community-based financial awards LIVE STRONG has granted in a single year in the history of the foundation. The ...
06/02/11 U.S. stocks struggled on Thursday but the urgency to sell that dominated markets a day earlier was absent. A fall in the Doiw Jones of around 280 points on Wednesday, with corresponding falls in other indices, ignited a global sell-off Thursday.
06/02/11 Optimism about a pending bailout package for Greece was offset by concern that tomorrow's US jobs report will confirm recent data suggesting the recovery of the world's largest economy is faltering.In late trading on Wall Street,...
06/02/11 Horizon Lines, Inc. announced that shareholders at the company's annual meeting today re-elected two Class III directors and ratified the appointment of Horizon Lines' public accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP. | 
