07/16/11 Stanley J. Seeger - a reclusive, idiosyncratic art collector who disposed of Picassos, Beckmanns, and Bacons nearly as fast as he bought them and who for several years in the 1980s owned Sutton Place, one of Britain's grandest Tudor estates - died June 24 in Whitby, North Yorkshire. He was 81.
07/16/11 Family, friends and even strangers showed up to support the family of a woman whose body was found burning in a northeast Austin field. Doug Connolly lives in Northwest Austin and found out about Elizabeth Escobar's death through the news. He didn't know the young mother of two but felt the need to help.
07/15/11 Why was the Louisiana Entertainment logo in the 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2' credits?
07/15/11 Home Bancorp, Inc. , the holding company of the 103-year-old Home Bank announced the completion of its acquisition of GS Financial Corp., the holding company of Guaranty Savings Bank of Metairie, Louisiana. ? The combined company has total assets of approximately $975 million, $640 million in loans and $720 million in deposits. ? ?
07/15/11 Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS -- Mid-City is one of the most economically and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in New Orleans. Neighbors pay up to $300 a year for overtime police patrols through a cooperative agreement with the NOPD. This week an email surfaced from Sgt. Sam Palumbo who coordinates the patrols. In the memo to about 50 officers, including 1st District Commander Robert ...
07/11/11 A McKinney toddler died in an accident in Galveston County just two weeks shy of her second birthday.
07/10/11 An analysis of tax filings by The Canadian Press has found salaries often run well into six figures, raising questions about how money raised in the name of charity is being spent.
07/10/11 Just finding a den site and seeing wolf pups playfully tussling outside would have been enough for Fort McCoy biologist Tim Wilder. Then the number of pups in the grass began to grow before his disbelieving eyes. By the time he spied the last lounging nearby, he'd tallied 10.
07/10/11 An election in July is unusual, but there's one happening Tuesday in Columbia County.
07/10/11 Bobby Young, a Northshore resident and native of the metro New Orleans area, was recently named vice president and director of private banking at First Bank and Trust.
07/09/11 It is early on a weekday morning, and all of a sudden, I see a stunning new view of Atlantic City. From my pancake perch at Gilchrist's in Gardner's Basin, the morning sun glints like molten gold off the glassy casino towers that rise along the near horizon. A small fishing boat called the Gail Ann drifts up to the dock beside us, bringing with it a soft summer bay breeze that mingles with the ...
07/05/11 In elementary school when Brandon Boucher would finish his work early he would draw in his notebooks.
07/05/11 Funeral arrangements have been made for Tech. Sgt. Daniel Douville, a 33-year-old father of three, who was killed June 26 while serving in Afghanistan .The public is invited to attend his service Saturday at 10 a.m. at the West Jefferson High School auditorium in Harvey, La. Douville, who is...
07/05/11 BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Sister Frances Scanlon remembers the Stella Maris Retreat Center in Elberon when it was solely a summer retreat house for her religious order, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, who bought the Long Branch oceanfront property, formerly known as Sea Cliff Villa, in 1941. read more
07/05/11 The governor issued 16 line-item vetoes to the budget on the day the new fiscal year began. Lawmakers had sought review of a planned contract to coordinate the state's services for at-risk youths. They wanted House and Senate budget committee approval before the Recovery School District could enter into contracts of $99,000 or more for consulting and other services. Both were vetoed by Jindal ...
07/05/11 Denton, you are now free to move about the country - by rail. With the June 20 launch of the A-train, Denton County residents now have a direct rail link to the rest of the U.S. that hasn't been available for more than 40 years. At the end of the A-train's 21-mile journey to Carrollton awaits a whole new world via many of the same rails our forefathers traveled.
07/04/11 This July 4th, as we celebrate the birth of our country, we're taking a closer look at the test hundreds of thousands of people take each year in order to become Americans. Could you pass the American Citizenship Test?
06/28/11 The South China Sea -- a 1.3 million square mile patch of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations -- is dotted with hundreds of largely uninhabited islands and coral atolls that are home to some of the world's most diverse marine life.
06/28/11 Courthouse COUNTY JAIL DOCKET (The following people were booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on felony charges yet to be proven in court.): Gina M. Cafasso, 40, DeLeon Springs, grand theft of more than $300 but under $5,000;...
06/15/10 From: News release Thousands of college football fans from across the country will join the National Football Foundation from July 16-17 at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., for the |