In May, after years of legislative wrangling, the Nevada State Legislature passed Senate Bill 237, which will permit out of state CCW permit holders whose permit standards are substantially similar to that of Nevada's to carry firearms for self-defense in
The YanksBlog.com Fantasy Baseball League has ended. In the championship match, I defeated Sports!!! by the score of 8-2. Here are the final standings: Rank Team1. Patrick (YB)2. Sports!!!3. Hip Hip Jorge4. terpballaz5. The A...
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, the "Chinese Cowboy" whose colorful style and controversial policies made him one of Louisiana's best known politicians, died on Monday of leukemia. Lee, 75, had been sheriff of the suburban New Orleans parish since 1980
Grilled by elementary school children on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice replied that she would not run for president, slept for 6.5 hours a night and was not afraid in war zones. At the tail end of nine
An eight-year effort to declassify more than eight million pages of records related to U.S. involvement with Nazi and Japanese war criminals has cost the U.S. government nearly $30 million. Much of that cost could have been averted had the
The United States admitted more than 1,600 Iraqi refugees over the past 12 months, but still fell short of its goal for the year despite a last-minute push to reach a reduced target of 2,000, according to State Department figures.
Presidents don't have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they've left office, a federal judge ruled Monday. In a narrowly crafted ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush's 2001 executive order, which
Lisa and Jorge Alvarez always wanted children but never thought it would be this many. "71 children, ranging in the age of five days to 17," says Lisa.
The Miami Dolphins lost a game and a player against the Raiders as defensive tackle Vonnie Holliday went down with a slightly fractured right ankle. Holliday will miss this week's game against the Texans and possibly the week after when
Five new hip eco-friendly wallpaper patterns are the result of a design challenge given to 22 students at Central St. Martins University in London. Wallpaper/wall art company Graham & Brown asked the students to design fashion-conscious sustainable wallpaper to add
This weekend just past saw the playing of the Grand Final of the Australian Football League (AFL), akin to the US Super Bowl. Aside from watching one team win their first premiership in over 40 years, 2.57 million viewers (the
The housing market is shifting green even in Mexico and one of the country's largest developers has introduced a new scheme to build more ecological housing and cities. Geo, which builds more than 50,000 houses in Mexico a year, many
The U.S. Navy has budgeted $600,000 to obscure the fact that one of its building complexes resembles the infamous Nazi symbol from the air. The amphibious base at Coronado, Calif., constructed in the late '60s, serves as barracks for Seabees.
