 01/24/10 Monday Vancouver City Council, 3 p.m., Council Chambers, City Hall, 250 W. 13th St.; interview applicants for open council seat; 5 p.m.: executive session to review applicant qualifications; 7 p.m.: consent agenda; selection of council position appointee.
 01/24/10 A tip about an erratically moving vehicle led to the arrest of a Johnson City man on his fifth DUI offense on Saturday.
01/24/10 The town closed out 2009 on a high note, with the purchase of the Miller-Kingsland property, a historic site on Vreeland Avenue where a developer had hoped to build homes.
 01/24/10 Deer Creek to reopen resort, cabins. Park features the Shack, where Harding played poker with cronies Power boats welcome on Deer Creek Lake
 01/23/10 Three Haitian foreign exchange students in Jacksonville got word this week that their families in Haiti survived the massive Jan. 12 earthquake that killed thousands.
01/18/10 It's not just you - a lot of us find our distant vision is getting blurrier. A recent study by the National Eye Institute found nearsightedness in Americans jumped from 25 percent of the population in the 1970s to 41 percent through 2004.
 01/18/10 by Mattthew D. LaPlante Even those who know the area best won't step far off the narrow, muddy road that runs through the center of the desolate toxic dump at Utah's Deseret Chemical Depot. It's been more than 30 years since the U.S. Army used this vast scrubland, known as the East Demilitarization Area, to dispose of a deadly arsenal of chemical and conventional munitions -- but the military ...
 01/18/10 BOONTON - A husband and wife and their two young children safely exited a second-floor Washington Street apartment after a fire was sparked by a discarded cigarette butt, according to authorities, who said the fire on Wednesday, Jan. 6, could have been worse.
 01/14/10 This is a triple dose of bad news for real estate in Everett. These three separate bits of informati...
 01/04/10 Housing affordability didn't improve one jot or one tittle last year. Australian housing became more unaffordable than ever. Yes, yes, the Reserve Bank says just the opposite. But it says so based on the presumption that access to cheap credit is what makes buying a home affordable. We use a more conventional measure: the average home price. It's rising a lot faster than inflation-adjusted wages ...
 01/01/10 Perhaps the biggest news of 2009 in The Colony was made by a quiet, reserved seventh-grader. Griffin Middle School student Eric Yang won the National Geographic Bee in May in Washington, D.C./Submitted photo
 12/31/09 Ernest Richard "Ernie" Telford, known to his family as "Bud", passed away December 26, 2009, in Seattle at Harborview Medical Center, following a sudden illness. Ernie was born December 15, 1923, in Opheim, MT to Ernest R. "Barney" and Christina Victoria Telford.
 12/30/09 Simon Property Group Inc. entered into a new unsecured corporate credit facility providing an initial revolving borrowing capacity of $3.565 billion. This initial borrowing capacity represents an increase to the company's existing $3.5 billion revolver...
 12/26/09 MANITOWOC Trials and tribulations, tragedies and stories of survival affected the Manitowoc County community this past year. These are a few of the events.
 12/26/09 When historians look back on 2009 and the events that took place in the Luzerne County region, the corruption scandals at the courthouse and elsewhere surely will dominate what they see. But a closer look at the year that was is dotted with other significant events, too.
 12/25/09 Meet one of The Plain Dealer's 2009 community heroes: Sally Pellegrin, a teacher at Clara E. Westropp Elementary School in Cleveland.
 12/25/09 GARYMentors sought for project: The Gary Literacy Coalition is seeking mentors to participate in its Learning Partner mentoring project.Mentors provide support to students through regular visits during the school day. They must be 18 years old or older and willing to undergo background checks.Mentors and students participate in numerous literacy-related activities organized by the Gary Literacy ...
 12/24/09 Several local architects were honored for their work at the 19th annual Design Awards hosted by Nort
 12/20/09 As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me? The answer is: It depends. On your age and household income. Whether you own a business ...
 12/20/09 As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me?
 12/08/09 A Park Hills man received minor injuries Monday when his 1999 GMC Envoy struck the median cables on U.S. 67 in St. Francois County. |