06/14/11 The 2011 NBA Draft is just a little over one week away. Mock drafts are flying around like flocks of birds and everyone is wondering who will go where. Kyrie Irving is the favorite to go to the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first pick, yet Irving has only played 11 games of college basketball and may not be the best pick out there. There's a ton of competition. This year's draft class features ...
06/14/11 David Chung is still in college but the Fayetteville native is about to play in his second professional major golf championship. Chung, a rising senior at Stanford, will play in his first U.S. Open when he tees it up Thursday at Congressional Country Club in Washington.
06/14/11 Some programs have a lull in the action during the month of June, not so in Irish Nation. The wheels keep on churning in South Bend and around the nation with news affecting Notre Dame football in one way or another. It could be said that the sun never sets on Irish Nation. The following are some of the stories from coast to coast and beyond that have some interest to Notre Dame fans. Begin ...
06/14/11 The Henry County Cobras Post 31 Senior Legion baseball team will be in action in Kewanee this week.
06/06/11 Those remaining Huskies that have successfully battled against the best of the West will now head to the Des Moines, Iowa this week to contend for national titles as the NCAA Championships run from June 8-11.
06/06/11 PHILADELPHIA -- A repeat wasn't in the cards for the University of Utah rugby team on Sunday, but third place was a nice consolation. The Utes lost to Army 12-10 in the semifinals of the USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship on Sunday afternoon, leading to a bronze-medal showdown with Central Washington that the U won 12-10. Utah won the 2010 sevens title. In an ironic twist, Utah beat Cal ...
06/05/11 ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Montgomery County Public Schools system here has a highly regarded program for evaluating teachers, providing them extra support if they are performing poorly and getting rid of those who do not improve.
06/05/11 Financial aid dollars from the US government represents up to 90 percent of revenues of for-profit colleges. When the Department of Education laid down new conditions for financial aid access, the colleges' shares didn't tank. They soared on Wall Street.
06/05/11 Stand in the middle aisle of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine and take a slow 360-degree turn around the church. You'll catch glimpses of a red ceiling, hand-carved statues of saints, murals of St. Augustine's founding, a triptych mural of Mary, tiles celebrating St. Joseph and St. Patrick, a red, blue and gray Cuban tile floor, and painted cross beams with coats of arms of the diocesan ...
06/05/11 Public organizations and private companies, including several local agencies, bought up the more than $16 million in bonds sold Thursday by the Port of Grays Harbor to expand its rail project. Port Finance Director Mary Nelson said the sale went well with some of the 20-year bonds being sold at a...
05/26/11 ( Geological Society of America ) Locations studied include Alligator Point, Cat Island, Bahamas; Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada; Liverpool Land, east Greenland; Mount Rainier, Washington, USA; the Yangtze Gorges area, South China; the Moresby Seamount detachment, Woodlark Basin (east of Papua New Guinea); Hilo Ridge, Hawaii, USA; the Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland; the northern ...
05/25/11 Blaine Martin Madden was born October 3, 1923, in Winthrop, WA, to his parents, George and Gladys Madden. He was the younger of their two sons.
05/23/11 The Daily World Two men were arrested Saturday night after being apprehended by Aberdeen Police following a report of a possible drug transaction in the vicinity of a grocery store on West Simpson. The vehicle reported in the possible drug transaction about 6:30 p.m. Saturday was described to...
05/22/11 Groundbreaking ceremonies have taken place to mark the redevelopment of Southfields Community College and Burntwood Secondary School. Read more >
05/21/11 Triza Njeri Wanjiru is lonely in a crowd. Dozens of mourners enter her upmarket Muthaiga estate home in Nyahururu every hour seeking to comfort her or catch a glimpse of the house of the young man that thrilled the world with his outstanding talent before shocking the nation with his sudden death.
05/11/11 Manheim, Pa. -- The National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholastic Board of Directors is proud to announce the annual National Scholastic Award Winners.
05/11/11 We asked for what James Durbin's performances on American Idol have meant to you. Here's a sample of the outpouring of appreciation sent in to us.
05/09/11 Kansas sophomore forward Carolyn Davis has accepted an invitation to attend the 2011 USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team Trials. She will join 34 of the nation's top collegiate players at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 22-25. Invitations to the trials were issued by the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee, chaired by Sue ...
05/08/11 On this day when we honor the maternal among us, Luann Warner will not open a card or unwrap a gift that acknowledges her special place as "Grandma."
05/08/11 AS STATED by its organizers, the third annual Shaupeneak Spring Sprint 5k last Sunday was one for the record books. | 
