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  • Jim Cramer's Best Blogs Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:43PMCatch up on Jim Cramer's thinking on the hottest topics of the past week.
  • Essay: For Obama, race means repeated distractions Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:22PMWASHINGTON — Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.
  • An Account of Being Arrested for 'Trespassing' NYU's Bookstore [Tales] Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:47PM# tales Gawker once called the novelist Tao Lin "maybe perhaps the single most irritating person we've ever had to deal with." Times change. Here is Tao Lin 's account of being arrested for trespassing at the NYU bookstore last week. More »
  • Former Police Chief Asks for Recall of Portsmouth Mayor Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:45PMFirst Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson tells WSAZ.com the recall papers were taken out by former Portsmouth Police Chief Tom Bihl.
  • Red Lake couple convicted of abusing child Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:40PMAfter a four-day trial, a federal jury in Duluth has convicted a Red Lake couple of abusing their baby.
  • Christian Living Resources, Bible Study Tools, Jesus Christ Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:27PMWarren Throckmorton, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at Grove City College (PA). He is the producer of the critically acclaimed documentary, I Do Exist, regarding sexual orientation.
  • W.Va. New GOP Chairman Elected Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:15PMWest Virginia Republicans have a new party leader.
  • The Web Means the End of Forgetting Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:38PMThe digital age is facing its first existential crisis: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.
  • Kathleen Parker: In the new reality, open discussions are not allowed Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:31PMThe current Journolist controversy that has the blogosphere heaving sparks, and Washington even more self-absorbed than usual, is weak tea – a tempest in Barbie's teacup.
  • Home Page Improvement Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:36AMLong ignored -- and long annoying -- the humble home page is finally making a marketing splash. It's about time, isn't it?
  • Parents battle kids on tattoos Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:34AMNEW YORK — One day your kid wants a new bike. The next day, a new cell phone. Before you know it, your little darling is as tall as you are, demanding pierced ears or even a tattoo.
  • Jean Barton: Stone Family Reunion at Woodson Bridge State Park Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:48AMWe attended the 2010 Stone Family Reunion in late June at Woodson Bridge State Park. The last one was held in 2005, and the date for the next one will be the Saturday after Father's Day in 2015 at the same location. This was the first reunion held at Woodson Bridge since the 1950s or 60s.
  • Is one the loneliest number? The case for having just one child Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:22AMThe issue comes up at least once a week. Thanks for asking – Kate will be an only child. We didn't plan on this at first. But a variety of factors helped us change our minds. Factor #1: We're not exactly spring chickens anymore. Thinking ...
  • New Terrorist Magazine Boring Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 8:22AMHow 'Bout Some Good Old-Fashioned American Pop-Culture Features To Jazz It Up? Al-Qaida has gotten into the magazine business with a new online offering aimed at American Muslims who might want to blow themselves up.
  • ‘Exercise is just as important as chemo’ Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 8:19AMCancer is a scary word. When Michelle Flattery, of Ames, found out she had cancer, she was frightened and uncertain about the future.
  • THE EXTRA MILE: A visit onto dailymile.com offers instant connection, support Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:59AMEvery morning, I am sur rounded by like-minded people who share the same goals in health and exercise, and who push themselves to their full potential.
  • 152 arrested at hotel union rally in S.F. Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:52AMSan Francisco police arrested 152 people for blocking traffic outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Thursday night as UniteHere Local 2 rallied 1,400 union members to call attention to their 11-month-old contract dispute with the city's largest hotel chains. The... San Francisco - Hyatt - United States - Hotel - Police
  • Analysis: For Obama, race means repeated distractions Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:08AMRight when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.
  • Keiser Permanente Award of Excellence given to JHS graduate Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 6:55AMWhen in comes to current healthcare-related issues Zack Pope is in the know. Through Jacksonville High School’s Health Science Academy and his active membership in Health Occupations Students of America, the recent graduate took first place at the...
  • Ashland Pair Charged with Drug Trafficking Near a School Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:45PMAn Ashland area man and woman were arrested late Thursday night and charged with felony drug trafficking near a school, according to a news release from the Boyd County Sheriff's Department.
  • Large Sinkhole Discovered in Downtown Huntington; Some Roadways Closed Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:30PMA large sinkhole was discovered Friday evening at the intersection of 4th Avenue and 5th Street, causing roadways in that area to be closed, according to a Huntington Police Department news release.
  • Supreme Court Denies Injunction Request Against Railroad Herbicide Permit Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:28PMLori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage The Alaska Supreme Court has denied a request for injunction against the Alaska Railroad’s herbicide spraying permit, clearing the way for the Railroad to begin using chemicals to kill weeds along their track right of way. The permit had been challenged by the Alaska Community Action on [...]
  • Seeking Federal Flood Assistance Not Necessarily Easy Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:00PMFederal help does not come in one neat package for flood victims.
  • Wayne Pacelle: Standing Up for Street Dogs in Baghdad and Beyond Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 8:42PMIn the United States, persistent euthanasia in shelters is the problem we all struggle to end. In developing countries, it is a different kind of...
  • Deep Fryer Catches Fire, Closes West Hamlin Hardee's Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 8:15PMThe Hardee's in West Hamlin is temporarily closed after one of its deep fryers caught on fire Friday evening.
  • Free back-to-school vaccines, vision and hearing tests next week Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 7:53PMJordan Valley Community Health Center will provide free vaccines, vision and hearing tests and many other services to help local K-5 students get an early start for the upcoming school year, according to a news release
  • Bacon-wrapped America Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 7:49PMWhen I was a kid, my father required that my mother prepare a hot breakfast for me and my brothers each morning. My mother, half-awake because she stayed up reading very late most nights, stood over the stove in her legendary pink bathrobe, a few curlers in her hair, wielding a spatula with a hand that often also held a cigarette. The fare was always the same: toast, bacon and scrambled eggs ...
  • Logging Accident Reported in Nicholas County Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 7:30PMNicholas County 911 dispatchers say the accident happened in the small logging town of Muddlety about 6:30 p.m. Friday evening.
  • July 23, 2010 Leger's Restaurant Report Card Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 6:55PMThis week's restaurant inspection scores come to us from the Port Arthur Health Department. We begin with Church's Chicken on Gulfway Drive. Inspector Freeman found food not kept cold enough, he also discovered German roaches, house flies and gnats. The inspector also said the floors needed work.
  • Climate-change debate sinks to name-calling, legal threats Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 10:56PMA St. Thomas professor's response to a British climate change skeptic has bloggers and others all fired up.
  • Steptoe & Johnson Fumes at Nearby Burger Joint Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 10:53PMSteptoe & Johnson is fighting with a high-end hamburger restaurant over whether fumes from the Washington, D.C., restaurant are causing health problems for the law firm's employees -- including headaches, nausea, "drowsiness and distraction." Steptoe asked a D.C. Superior Court judge to issue an injunction barring the eatery from continuing to emit smoke and odors. In a Thursday hearing, Judge ...
  • Fire Destroys Garage, Damages Home Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 10:30PMA family’s garage was completely destroyed by fire Thursday evening.
  • Fat lady hasn’t sung yet for Democrats, but she’s coming Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:57PMTake yourself back to election night 2008. The scene is a huge park underneath the picturesque skyline of Chicago with hundreds of thousands of citizens making a little history.
  • Broome County Health Program, WIC, Turns 30 Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:52PMA federal program that has helped low-income women, infants and children receive the proper nutrition is celebrating a milestone. WIC is turning 30, and in today's economy more and more working families have come to rely on it. Liala Clark has been feeding her family with the help of WIC for eight years. "So I guess if I didn't know about it or didn't have it then I wouldn't know as much as I ...
  • Pet insurance gains popularity Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:44PMBut consumers should sniff out the details before buying, experts say Pet insurance is gaining popularity, but veterinarians warn consumers to study the plans carefully.
  • Tribal Law Legislation Takes Big Step Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:13PMLibby Casey, APRN – Washington DC A new law aimed at improving justice and safety for Alaska Natives and Native Americans is awaiting President Obama’s signature. The Tribal Law and Order Act won bi-partisan support, and passed the US House on Wednesday. The President says he will sign it, and in a written statement [...]
  • Plant cleared in death of worker Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:08PMCOTTONDALE — A renewable energy plant will not be cited for any safety violations following the death of an employee earlier this year. Michael Robert Fries, a 42-year-old panel operator at Green Circle Bio Energy Inc., died Feb. 6, about two weeks...
  • The Big Kahuna Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 8:45PMPicnic with Pops has its second concert this weekend with a Hawaiin theme!
  • Traffic Chaos That's Difficult to See Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 8:45PMNew directional, optical light signals only let you see the light that's directly in front of you.
  • Tea Party infighting heats up Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:52PMPolitical bickering within the conservative Tea Party movement intensified Monday as a representative of one group, the Tea Party Express, ridiculed a decision by another, the National Tea Party Federation, to expel the Express from its ranks.
  • Is Your Spouse Really Your Spouse? A Dependent Audit Wants to Know Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:50PMWith employers searching for ways to control health-care costs, the popularity of dependent audits isn't expected to flag.
  • Tea Party group expelled over 'satirical' race letter Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:48PMA branch of America's Tea Party movement has been expelled after a member wrote a fictional letter from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln.
  • Panic grips NYS jobless Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:43PM(Albany) Adam Hagues of Albany is on the verge of panic and he is not alone. At the end of August Hagues' unemployment insurance will run out and he has joined thousands of unemployed New Yorkers who are venting their desperation now on a New York State Labor Department blog site.
  • Tar balls wash up on Oceanside beach Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:43PMTar balls have washed ashore in Oceanside, creating squishy messes across a few hundred yards of sand.
  • Experience the Power and Mystery of Genetics With Illumina [USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog] Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:37PMJoin Illumina in its quest to discover "What makes you... you?" And to discern why even though people are genetically 99.9 % similar, we look and act so incredibly different! IlStudents and adults are encouragedto participate in Illumina's interactive Expo exhibit at the USA Science & Engineering Festival to answer for themselves these tricky but intriguing questions in genetics, using tools of ...
  • Tea Party candidate in 3rd Congressional District race steeped in mystery Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:32PMThe 3rd Congressional District contest took a strange turn last week when an obscure, third-party candidate entered the fray.
  • Sports Briefs: Serena will have surgery on foot Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:17PMSerena Williams needs surgery on her right foot after cutting it on broken glass at a restaurant.
  • Results From Groundbreaking New PSI Study on Male Circumcision to be Released Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:15PMPSI responds to comments by Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton on the life-saving intervention VIENNA, Austria, July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following the remarks on male circumcision made today by former President Bill Clinton and philanthropist Bill Gates, PSI will release the results of a groundbreaking study on a new model of efficiency that will allow for quality and cost ...
  • Fox Insurance Agrees to Pay Delinquent Medicare Part D Claims After Action by Senators Baucus, Grassley, CMS and NCPA Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 2:13PMALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fox Insurance Company agreed July 9 to wire $13.6 million in overdue payments for Medicare Part D prescription drug claims to the administrators of its plan - ProCare Pharmacy Benefit Management, Inc. - which is currently closing claims and beginning to process payments for claims from the period of Feb. 16-28, 2010 in order to provide long ...
  • Temporary cap in place — now what for the Gulf? Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 11:45AMAfter three long months, the bleeding from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been finally, mercifully stanched. But in so many ways, the prognosis remains uncertain.