07/16/11 Tehran, July 16 : China and Iran Saturday signed several agreements on infrastructure and trade cooperation.
07/16/11 He Guoqiang, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), visited the Islamic Republic of Iran from Thursday to Saturday, meeting with Iranian leaders and underlining bilateral cooperation.
07/15/11 Kyle Lauderdale, vice president of PremierWest Bank's Corning branch, was awarded a scholarship by the Oregon Bankers Association to attend the Pacific Coast Banking School in the fall. The association awards one scholarship annually from applications received statewide.
07/14/11 American Indian Artists Inc., the New York City-based organization dedicated to empowering Native Americans, will take up a brief residency at the Public Theater in August.
06/17/11 Running mate to the former Imo state governor Ikedi Ohakim, Professor . Viola Onwuliri and former minister of education Professor Fabian Osuji top the list of cabinet nominees forwarded to the house of assembly yesterday for screening by the state Governor Rochas Okorocha .
06/17/11 share: digg facebook twitter Two Beaumont men are in jail Thursday, accused of robbing a convenience store and shooting a shotgun as they were running away. Police were called to Stop & Shop, 671 Washington Blvd., at about 9:45 p.m., where two men armed with a pistol and a shotgun had stolen money and were last seen running south from the store, according to a news release from the Beaumont ...
06/15/11 Imo State House of Assembly has approved Governor Rochas Okorocha's request to appoint 10 special advisers.
06/14/11 More bad news for Japan and its stricken fishing industry: Tokyo Electric Power Company says radioactive strontium up to 240 times the legal concentration limit has been detected in seawater samples near an intake at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
06/14/11 It's almost impossible to separate Pablo Picasso the artist from Pablo Picasso the personality, and Picasso the public figure from Picasso the private man. Aren't they all the same now? With the hundreds of biographies (scores more are being published this year), all the dramatic movies (a must-s...
06/14/11 The entryway to the exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris at the de Young Museum through October 9, 2011. Photo: Jennifer Hsu/Fine Arts Museums of SF.
06/14/11 PASADENA - While President Barack Obama talked jobs in North Carolina on Monday, first lady Michelle Obama joined supporters at a stately Pasadena home for a fundraising luncheon - one of only three Southland stops on a quick West Coast trail to jump-start her husband's re-election campaign.
06/09/11 Coming up: music fests from Bonnaroo to the Montreal Jazz Festival kick off the summer, and kudo fests from Broadway's Tony Awards to the internet's Webby Awards, plus art from Jean-Paul Gaultier to Picasso.
06/08/11 Les Armateurs and StudioCanal have lined up the voice cast for their feature ERNEST AND CELESTINE, reports Variety . Lambert Wilson (THE MATRIX RELOADED) will lend his voice to Ernest, a bear who wants to be an artist.
06/08/11 Mary Lou Zeitoun reviews Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet, by Deepak Chopra
06/07/11 It is a good thing the Amarillo Venom scheduled "Guaranteed Win Night" on Monday against the Bricktown Brawlers and not during an intrasquad scrimmage between the Venom defense and the Venom offense, because otherwise things might have been interesting. The Venom dominated the barren Brawlers - who released most of their regular roster players weeks ago - 77-0 before an estimated crowd of 2,000 ...
05/13/11 Louisiana Speaker of the House Jim Tucker will give the commencement address
05/13/11 Last week, I asked readers to react on the cheating in age grade competitions as was highlighted by ex international Adokiye Amiesimaka in his comment in Vanguard two weeks ago.
05/13/11 LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A jury in Lafayette has convicted a man of raping an 18-year-old girl over 20 years ago. Charles Paul Celestine faces a mandatory life prison sentence after being found guilty Thursday of aggravated rape. The victim was attacked while walking to her home on Aug. 29, 1989.
05/13/11 The St Vincent de Paul Paramin Conference held its eighth Annual Easter Monday Walk-a-thon on April 25. It began at 6:30 a.m. and proceeded through the hills of Paramin, covering approximately eight miles.
05/12/11 Cornell Dupree, whose nearly five-decade career as a guitarist included recordings and performances with the likes of Miles Davis, Mariah Carey and Aretha Franklin, dies at his home in Texas. Cornell Dupree, a versatile guitarist whose long, productive career included performances and recordings with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Miles Davis and Lena Horne, died Sunday at his home ... | 
