Jason Donald, playing in the Eastern League All-Star Game in New Hampshire, was named to the U.S. Olympic baseball team. Kim Glass, training in Japan, was selected to the U.S. Olympic volleyball squad, pending United States Olympic Committee confirmation.
Such is the tale of how a potentially major alteration of the state's standardized AIMS test — which high school students must pass to graduate — was included in the 11th-hour budget that legislators approved as the legislative session ended
Lawyers for Toronto-born Omar Khadr released the tapes in hopes of generating sympathy for the young prisoner and to try to persuade the Canadian government to seek custody before he is prosecuted for war crimes at the U.S. special tribunal
Across town at the Plaza at Williams Centre, a similar yet not as storied drama unfolded early this week. On Monday, workers packed up the remains of the five-year-old Intermezzo, an Italian restaurant that was once a popular lunchtime spot.
Floodwaters over the weekend designed to flow through an underground wash spilled onto Calle International in Nogales, Sonora, hitting the concrete wall and pooling up as high as 6 feet along storefronts, pictures taken Saturday evening obtained by the Santa
The override vote in the House was a lopsided 383-41, easily meeting the two-thirds threshold needed to nullify the president's veto. About an hour later, the Senate voted to override, 70-26.
Johnston Shield Inc. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization late last week, listing more than $7 million in unsecured debt, including nearly $1.3 million in unpaid state and federal taxes. The company operates several dealerships, including Wildcat, 5200 E. Speedway in
Effective satire makes us laugh out loud and spit our coffee across the breakfast table. It makes us scratch our heads as it challenges our perspectives.
I applaud Sen. Barack Obama's position on faith-based programs, especially since he must have known that he would be attacked from both the right and the left. Public-health researchers and practitioners have known for years that churches can be effective
In 2005, 15 prominent business groups warned that a lack of expert workers and teachers posed a threat to U.S. competitiveness and said the country would need 400,000 new graduates in the so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields