Taking Edmonds in strideSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:29AMFour hundred cookie jars, an exhibit of 100 years of paper dolls, a co-op art gallery that has operated for 48 years, an underwater park, and public art are in the mix of attractions in Edmonds.
Interview: "Family is my strongest backing": Russian famed female rectorSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:22PMNurtured as a boy in childhood, put under spotlight for her perseverant legal fight against Russian oligarch, Irina Khaleyeva, a Russian educational strongwoman, said her personality originated from her father. On the eve of the centennial international women's day, Khaleyeva, who has been rector of the Moscow State Linguistics University (MSLU) for over 20 years, also told Xinhua in an ...
Longtime Ganado teacher turns 100Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:19PMGANADO - Johnie Koonce still gets around faster than some of her nieces and nephews.
Pledge to cut EU gender pay gap after 15 years without progressFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 2:39PMOffice workers in London. Women in the UK are paid 79% of male rates, while across the EU the figure is 82%. Photograph: Linda Nylind The pay gap between men and women in Europe has barely changed f...
Community Calendar: Find A Friday Fish FryFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:20PMCheck WTAE Channel 4's calendar to find upcoming events around Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. You can also ask us to add your community event to the list.
Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper since 1995Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:44PMIt is almost midnight. A wife is staggering back home drunk to find her cute husband drying tears with his kitchen apron. He says he stayed in all day cooking, cleaning and waiting for her. He got so worried that he called all manicure and spa saloons in town looking for her.
Bob Elmore: Kelley's Raiders & Getting Paid For Civic Work (Excerpt 16)Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 6:19AMOne night Mayor Kelley called me and asked if I wanted to go steal a train. At first, I thought he must be drunk. He was serious; he wanted to go re-capture the famous Locomotive, The General.
Iraqi PM accused of handing out guns in bid to buy tribal votesSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 6:06PMThe Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, says that the deliveries of weapons along with cash payments were not improper. Photograph: Qassem Zein/AFP/Getty Images A senior Iraqi spy has accused the...
Local missionary prepares for Haiti tripSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 5:07AMCOATESVILLE — Stardetta "Starr" Hatton's dream came true. She will soon leave for Haiti where she will provide aid to earthquake victims for a month.
Norfolk artist's Blarney stone commissionSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 7:09AMAs the legend goes, Ireland's fabled Blarney Stone has the power to bestow conversational eloquence on anyone who kisses it. But even if the promised “gift of the gab” fails to materialise, there are plenty of other gifts at the souvenir shop to remind the visiting millions of the experience.
Giving away the bride, groom and everything elseFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:16PMSomething borrowed, something blue, something old, something new and, for one lucky couple, the whole thing for free.
What's On in Aylesbury and the Vale - Your Diary Dates for February and MarchFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:41AMWalks, talks, quizzes and more - updated every Friday. FILM: Filmnight at the Limelight Theatre, Aylesbury. The Time Traveller's Wife. Evening includes film, food and licenced bar. Starts at 8pm. Box office: 01296 424332.
A New Look At an Old DrugThursday, February 25, 2010 @ 11:01PMHeroin: Teen’s Drug of Choice Today’s image of a heroin addict is no longer an unkempt, dirty loser with needlemarks on their arm, but a smiling, smart teenage Prom Queen. That was the message to parents and teens attending a heroin forum, “Not My Child” presented by Kristin M. Fexas, deputy bureau chief from District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s office as she spoke in the St. Dominic High School ...
Beijing issues new ethics rules for party officialsWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 11:10AMChina's Communist party issued a new ethics code for its members Wednesday, in advance of next week's annual session of "parliament" in Beijing.
BLOG: Christian Chapel helps impoverished in GhanaTuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 12:22PMBy CHRISTIANA NIELSON neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com Building schools, digging wells, working with orphans and helping to save children from human trafficking are probably not the typical activities for most people living in Columbia. But these were some of the activities that 13 people from Christian Chapel undertook when they traveled to Ghana from Jan. 26 to ...
Victims face hard choicesMonday, February 22, 2010 @ 3:28PMThis is part two of a three-part series examining domestic violence on the Big Island.
in the galleries calendarSaturday, February 20, 2010 @ 5:16AMHere's a sampling of the happenings at the region's art and history galleries. Admission, lectures and receptions are free, unless otherwise noted. "Mongolia!," photographs by Barbara Paul , Borders Books, 1499 Post Road. Fri-Jan. 31. 203-256-1619.
Cheers and Jeers/Feb. 20Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 8:27PMCheers : To Larry White Jr. of Aledo and Coors Distributing of Fort Worth not only for their record-
Leader-Post Christmas Cheer Fund sets recordFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 4:51PMYou did it again! Your generosity resulted in our most successful campaign to date. Donations to the 2009 Leader-Post Christmas Cheer Fund totalled $178,000 — topping last year's record-breaking total of just over $138,000.
What It Takes to be an Olympic AthleteFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:25PMShane Murphy, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and associate professor of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University. He is the founder of Gold Medal Psychological Consultants, which teaches business and sport organizations the competitive skills that lead to success. Dr. Murphy was head of the U. S. Olympic Committee's Sport Psychology Department from 1987 to 1994 and associate director ...
Letters to the editorFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 2:41AMThe arrogance displayed by Ron Corwin , chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission ( P&Z ), at last Thursday night's meeting of the P&Z was unbelievable.
Beware of Tory co-operativesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 7:59AMIs David Cameron is an unlikely convert to workers' control. Photograph: Getty Images
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:56AMWINNETKA DISTRICT 36
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:46AMDISTRICT 65
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:38AMHARPER SCHOOL
In sickness and in healthThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:50AMWhen Emily Fitz Randolf met Ron Wiedenhoeft during a singles group event, she was struck by his charm, intellect and traditional Bavarian outfit.
Jim Six: The face of love behind a veilThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:03AMWhen I got married, it was for love. Well, medical insurance was mentioned, but it was mostly for love.
Food strike at Vancouver AirportWednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 9:22PMLess than a week into the Olympics, about 300 workers at Vancouver International Airport walked off the job Wednesday morning, closing 16 food and retail outlets in what the union is characterizing as a dispute over job security. The workers, members of Unite Here Local 40, set up pickets at the departures level at YVR, but union director Lynn Flandera said the line was designed not to affect ...
Looking Backward: Somethings Up on Downer Street Part OneWednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 10:12AMSpiritualism swept across the western world in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a movement, its popularity peaked in English-speaking countries on both sides of the
In a Challenge to Rangel, an Echo of His RiseTuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 8:01AMThe banker Vincent Scott Morgan is running against his former boss for the Democratic nomination in the 15th Congressional District.
Witchcraft is the most benign of all the silly religions | Tanya GoldTuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 6:21AMWorshipping the stones and the trees . . . a pagan priestess. Photograph: Alamy Last weekend, a photograph of a witch appeared next to a newspaper story about the 2011 census. This census is reporte...
Chris Stanfield named Deputy of the YearMonday, February 15, 2010 @ 5:16AMBeing named Deputy of the Year caught Huron County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Stanfield off-guard. “This is a big honor,” the Huron County Jail senior sergeant told Sheriff Dane Howard and Chief Deputy Dave Battles.
Stephen Hume: Why sport mattersMonday, February 15, 2010 @ 3:51AMWhenever a government decides its spending priorities, somebody pops up with the pronouncement: “Not one dime to subsidize the symphony (or the Olympics, or public art) while there are people visiting food banks.”
North Korea callingSunday, February 14, 2010 @ 10:35PMThe world's most notorious socialist state is a land of haywains and empty highways, unlit cities and undimmed reverence for the Great Leader The strangest of all the very strange things about the strangest place on earth, North Korea, is that it's surprisingly easy to go there. Or at least, not as hard as it somehow ought to be. I'd always thought that it was only marginally less difficult than ...
McCready Manor residents prove true love lasts a life timeSunday, February 14, 2010 @ 11:12AMLove was in the air. All the smooching, kissing and hand-holding I witnessed at McCready Manor could’ve melted the blanket of snow that covered the ground outside. I watched as the photographer arranged the couples to take a group photograph.
From cuddly teddies to personalised pillowsSaturday, February 13, 2010 @ 8:06PMThe young generation would not be familiar with the lyrics of the famous Beatles song "Love Me Do!" However, this is the very message that they are conveying to their loved ones in a big way on Valentine' Day this year.
Love: Saying it with a songFriday, February 12, 2010 @ 11:56PMMildred Bobb was surprised and happy when she opened her front door Friday morning to see the Mello-Tones barbershop chorus there to deliver her a singing valentine. Welcoming the seven-member group into her home, Bobb smiled as the men, all dressed...
Shower your sweetie with love - and giftsFriday, February 12, 2010 @ 11:00PMIt's Sunday. The day to shower the woman you love with lavish gifts and flowers, chocolates and romantic dinners. Unless you forgot that Sunday is Valentine's Day - then you better get busy. Don't worry - local retailers have tips for the last minute shopper to ensure that doesn't happen. Flowers, especially roses, are a staple gift to show that special someone how much she means.
Groshans wins Progressive 15 photo contestFriday, February 12, 2010 @ 11:12AMThe grand prize winner of the Progressive 15 photo contest was Joanie Groshans from Phillips County with her picture titled, “Along the fence row.
Jab we met: 'He was my sapno ka raja'Friday, February 12, 2010 @ 8:08AMWe invited readers to share their love stories with us. Here are a few responses we received!
Fleeced looking for loveFriday, February 12, 2010 @ 7:23AMTHOSE looking for love online beware - behind an enticing photograph is not always a beautiful woman or a gallant man, the consumer watchdog warns.