07/16/11 Shigeru Mizuki's "Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths" begins with a gallery of the faces of each of the 30 main characters. Although none of these portraits could be called realistic, each is idiosyncratic enough to be instantly recognizable and distinct from each of the others. That we can tell one from the other is, perhaps, the point: these young men, Mizuki shows us, were not a nameless and ...
07/16/11 In Tom McNeal's novel "To Be Sung Underwater," a long-buried romance comes to life again in a small Nebraska town.
07/16/11 (Woodbridge, VA) Potomac swept a doubleheader from Kinston on Friday night at Pfitzner Stadium and takes over first place in the Carolina League. The P-Nats second half record is 14-8, and they've won five straight games.
07/16/11 It's been nine years since a Hollywood city utility truck crashed head on into self-employed landscaper Ronald Miller, leaving him in chronic pain with neck and knee injuries.
07/16/11 CHARLESTON, SC - The dog days of August are approaching, but the Charleston RiverDogs are ready to send the month of July out in style with a seven-game homestand.
07/15/11 By Marc Caputo, Miami Herald Saturday, July 16, 2011 If you love or hate Rick Scott as governor, there's one man who deserves a lion's share of the credit or blame: Tony Fabrizio. A cigar-smoking data-crunching pollster, Fabrizio is the person Scott insiders point to as being the brains behind the Republican's improbable transformation from political nobody to governor of the nation's most ...
07/08/11 A Dauphin Street gunmaker converts muskets into rifles at moderate expense; temperatures in the city swell to over 100 degrees ... all on this day in history.
07/08/11 The sun twinkles on the turquoise water off palm-fringed Waikiki Beach, the air heady with the scent of coconut suntan lotion. "Aloha," grins the waiter at Duke's Barefoot Bar as he sets down a Tropical Itch, a rum drink with a foot-long bamboo back scratcher sticking out.
07/07/11 LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laguna Beach agents ranked in top 1/2 of 1 percent of Prudential agents nationwide.
07/07/11 When considering the best place to enjoy Saskatchewan's hot summer months, the Queen City is hard to beat and 2011 is no exception.
07/07/11 Miami Columbus High golfer Stefano Diaz will be in a foursome with Mark Calcavecchia this weekend fo
07/03/11 Members of the Comstock Civil War Re-enactors fire on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad No. 25 steam locomotive and passenger train with their Whitworth cannon.
06/30/11 Local firm has developed unique innovation that could save lives With the recent earthquake and tsunami that devasted coastal Japan, there doesn't seem to be a better time to consider manufacturing the Tsunami Survival Capsule.
06/30/11 By WENDI WINTERS For Entertainment Ask a dozen friends what they like about the Independence Day celebrations, and you will very likely get a smorgasbord of responses. Some like the tolling of church bells, the parades, or simply a day off from work and an excuse to sleep in late. There is an amazing breadth of events to attend, foods to eat and things to see and do in this region during the ...
06/29/11 # tsunami A pair of former Boeing engineers are building an escape pod that would let people ride out the worst of a Tsunami inside a giant ball. The Tsunami capsules could hit the market in two years with a price tag as low as $1000. More »
06/29/11 Contact: David Roberts, +1-202-693-5945, roberts.david@dol.gov; Joshua Lamont, +1-202-693-4661, lamont.joshua@dol.gov
06/28/11 After a rough springtime construction schedule caused seven lost work days, state transportation officials announced Friday there will be no more nighttime closures on the main link between Washington County and the Oregon Coast. After six months, the Dennis...
06/25/11 The Vietnam veteran is convinced that the ocean saved him. Photography saved him.
06/25/11 Before Jahallah "Jay" Simmons begins inspecting the rocks under his feet in the lower Colestin Valley, he carefully checks the area for things that slither.
06/20/11 On a dramatic 30-30 vote, the Oregon House rejects a bill that would loosen enrollment restrictions on online charter schools in the state. Republicans will try again Tuesday to muster the needed votes for the bill. | 
