And The Tour Begins - the 61st Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

The Tour is a drive and show car show that takes place from The Lodge at Pebble Beach to downtown Carmel so that fans can get a hint of what will be on display along the 18th Green at Pebble Beach. The Tout begins...

C.N. Bialik One of the greatest Hebrew Poets of Modern Times died

This was a wonderful visit having read his inspiring poetry in both English and Hebrew. If you understand Hebrew the poetry has so much more depth to it. Hebrew is a language where every word has many meanings....

Boycott the fruits of apartheid

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside the main UK warehouse of Israeli company Carmel Agrexco in Hayes, Middlesex, close to Heathrow on Saturday 7 Feb, 2009, claiming its exports of flowers and fruit from...

S.D. Human Relations Commission Recognition to Couple who turned grief over f...

Thanks to the rage and grief of a couple who found out his fallen son was going to be delivered as cargo. America's fallen troops are now being brought back to their families with honor in charter jets instead of...

You say Tomatoes, I Say Tomatos, Festivals of Them, Restaurants in New York, ...

Forgive me for the Dizzy Gillespie riff, I could not resist. This Tour de France in New York, a group of restaurants that is not a bicycle race, after the Tainted Love period we had with Tomatoes, offers New Yorkers and visitors to the Big Apple a Tomato Festival from August...

Once a Hollywood legend, Doris Day is now an ageing recluse called Clara

Doris Clara, Hollywood legend, 84 years old, but still looks wonderful. Nothing is last forever. One way or another it gets us all in the end! " She enchanted a generation with her golden locks, pretty face and...

California Wildfires: Progress in Containment

As Sunday dawns with the promise of high temperatures, authorities are claiming slow progressa gainst the blazes, which are still only 5% contained. "Saturday's firefighting efforts went according to plan, the...

Rebel soldiers stop people leaving Manila hotel

This looks like it will be an on going story. This is what Reuters has so far. As it sais, mainly journalists. I am not sure how many foreigners are in the hotel."By Karen Lema and Raju Gopalakrishnan MANILA (Reuters) - Rebel Philippine soldiers holed up in a luxury Manila...

San Diego - Pipe-bomb Story Updated -Man pleads not guilty to I-5 pipe bomb c...

Updated 11/8/2007 By: TERI FIGUEROA - Staff WriterSource: NC TIMES VISTA -- An Oceanside ex-convict who police say left two pipe bombs near Interstate 5 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony counts tied mostly to homemade bombs.The incident caused...

Salinas Rural Gets New OES Firetruck

" May 30, 2007 California - The Salinas Rural Fire Department rolled out its new fire engine Tuesday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Monterey County now has three firetrucks provided free by the governor's Office of Emergency Services. North Monterey County Fire Protection...

Wendy McCaw takes on Bank of America over Estonian purchases

DAILY SOUND BY MELANIE CARROLL DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT "Purchases made during a summer trip to Estonia prompted billionaire Wendy McCaw to sue the Bank of America after the credit card giant allegedly failed...

Laura Schlessinger and baby of the deceased, Anna Nicole

UPDATE March 23, 2007: Laura Schlessinger, the Santa Barbara News-Press, Saks 5th Avenue and the recent tragic murder of a child in broad daylight. IT DOES MATTER WHAT PUBLIC FIGURES SAY AND DO. Schlessinger...

Santa Barbara, What Went Wrong?

"Up in sunny Santa Barbara, the plucky editors of the Santa Barbara Independent publish a letter from former NewsPress editor Bob Guiliano to Mayor Marty Blum. Seems Wendy McCaw(ful) wasn't happy with a story...

Sprint Champs Sprint to the Line: Winning by a tire

The action on the winding roads of California did not slow down yesterday.  Paolo Bettini (the world sprint champion) roared to a bicycle tire finish in San Luis Obispo, edging out the under 23 sprint...

Laura Schlessinger will kill baby if Google killed Anna Nicole

Laura Schlessinger is not the only one to cash in on Anna Nicole. TMZ reports on the following from her bodyguard: "She always ... Googled her name, and she would read these articles that spoke badly about her,...

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