Woods brings out top ratings for U.S. Open

Post-surgery Woods is looking to break the tie today for a U.S. Open against Mediate. The scoreboard can wait as even more impressive numbers have come in from the weekend. Woods brought the top ratings for the...

8pm No Winner at Vision yet

Oldtown News has picked up the guantlet as keeper of the score at Vision HQ.  Still no word of a winner. "It is now 8 pm--three hours after the polls closed at the Vision nomination convention and as yet--no...

12 illegal immigrants living in the attic

Imagine moving into a new home and then discovering you weren’t the only ones living there.  I thought this was a joke when first reading it since it is Friday the 13th and all, but it’s a real story.  A young couple had just moved into a rented house, decided...

When an Auto Maker Leaves Town Community Needs Good Role Models

Janesville got the news a week or two back - General Motors isleaving town. GM is a major employer out that way, giving jobs to 4.3percent of Rock County's work force. and many of these are more thanjust "living wage" jobs. They're the types of jobs than anyAmerican community...

B.C. Blacklists Private University

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOn one hand our Premier was prancing around the province with this official University Conferring Wand, flitting from post secondary institution to institution granting...

Islam Advancing in France, Being Pushed Back in Turkey

"These are an odd couple stories. On the one hand you have the ineffectual French courts kowtowing to a Muslim husband who wanted his marriage annulled because his wife wasn’t a virgin. On the other hand is...

3rd Minnesota Bridge Is Closed as Special Inspections Continue

"ST. PAUL — State officials have closed a bridge over the Mississippi River after finding problems similar to those suspected of contributing to the fatal collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in downtown...

At least 18 hurt in Wisconsin school bus wreck

At least 18 people have been hurt this afternoon in Salem, Wisconsin when a school bus dropping children off from school was rear-ended by a semitrailer truck.Two people have been air-lifted to hospital, and the...

Out of control wildfire still burns in central California

UPDATE May 23rd, 20081400 homes were called to evacuate.  As of last night, only 15% of the fire had been contained and already 4 square miles have been charred. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a...

Golden Gate Bridge Closed After 6 Car Collision

Just received word, via Twitter, that the Golden Gate Bridge has been closed due to a collision. Do you have more on this story?"Both sides of the famous Golden Gate Bridge have been closed after a six-vehicle...

House GOPers stomping mad over prospects

Lot's of very glum faces among House GOP members this morning as they emerged from their weekly closed-door session. The political situation is not good, and they aren't even trying to deny it.Rep. Tom Davis...

Florida Bush Fire Prompts Evacuations and Closed Roads.

"Barely 24 hours after Bill Uszenski places 144 flags at the graves of deceased members of the Florida Fire Department, bush fires has shut down roads in central Florida and forced evacuations, authorities said."

Severe weather kills 22 in Missouri, Oklahoma

UPDATE: 10:36 p.m. EST May 11AP reports 22 dead through three states."Stunned survivors picked through the little that was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the Plains and South,...

ANB Financial closure , third bank failure of the year

ANB Financial Closes doors.  Third Bank Failure this Year"ANB Financial N.A., a Bentonville, Ark.-based bank, has been closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance...

Probe into sub-station explosion in England

UPDATE: 2:35PM EST - May 8There is to be an official probe into the explosion at a sub-station in Essex, England yesterday." A member of staff working for EDF Energy died at the sub-station in Chelmsford on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to Bishop Hall Lane in...

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