Three of the rockets struck the Beersheba area on Wednesday night, and an additional rocket landed near Ashkelon. Another rocket fell in an open area in the Eshkol region. Israel Radio reported that rockets also landed near the towns of Netivot and ...
7 Jan 2009
GASTONIA - When Chris Bordino first went to the Naval Academy Prep School in the summer of 2004, he had dreams of playing for the Midshipmen's football program. Instead, he's now a star for the Navy track and field program. Bordino, a 2004 Ashbrook ...
7 Jan 2009
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels will meet with the Rams about their head coaching vacancy on Friday. That will mark McDaniels’ third interview, as he has already spoken with Cleveland and Denver ...
7 Jan 2009
Noon OAKLAND — Family members of a 22-year-old man fatally shot by a transit officer on New Year’s Day have filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency. The officer involved in the shooting is identified in ...
7 Jan 2009
PICTURE YOURSELF as a 16-year-old in high school, out of foster care, living in a rooming house, then your own apartment, and successfully completing Grade 12. You want to better yourself and you enter university, only to have difficulty in first ...
7 Jan 2009
West Branch native Dennis Maher, who goes by the stage name Dennis Petersen, returns to Iowa this month to perform in Madama Butterfly for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theater. He has a leading role as Goro, the marriage broker who tries to get Butterfly ...
7 Jan 2009
It began seriously with publication of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, which became a best-seller for a previously obscure neuroscience grad student named Sam Harris.
7 Jan 2009
A 2006 Loveland High School graduate Kara Wilkinson, a junior theatre performance major at University of Findlay, portrayed Cicely and served as an assistant scenic artist in The University of Findlay's "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, Nov. 5-9.
7 Jan 2009
Anderson Township native U.S. Marine Corps. Capt. Warren A. Frank will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors Friday, Jan. 9.
7 Jan 2009
OAKLAND — The former Napa resident involved in a Bay Area Rapid Transit shooting on New Year's Day has resigned from his job as a BART transit officer.
7 Jan 2009
Robert Conley, area grad and offensive lineman for the Utes, is one of several local players in this edition of Alumni Notebook.
7 Jan 2009
Astros prospect, a Bishop Moore grad, battles meningitis Former Bishop Moore catcher Max Sapp, now a minor-leaguer in the Houston Astros organization, will remain hospitalized for at least the next few days as he recovers from sinus surgery and viral meningitis, a release from his agent said Tuesday.
6 Jan 2009
*Breaking* Vassar Grad Joins Obama Administration. Earlier today President-elect Obama named Nancy Killefer his Chief Performance Officer. This is a new position aimed at managing the government's financial efficiency. ...
7 Jan 2009
Teachers at Mason High School received word over winter break that a favorite former student had died. Michelle Moses, 21, was killed Dec. 20 in a traffic accident on Interstate 75 south of Louisville, Ky., said Mason High School ...
7 Jan 2009
It has been five days since Utah upset Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, but the excitement in junior linebacker Stevenson Sylvester's voice was as if he was still chasing Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson around the Louisiana Superdome.
7 Jan 2009
If you have not done so in the last 24 hours, please vote for my blog, Israel Matzav, as Best Midsize blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards by going here. This is one of two Grad-type Katyusha rockets to hit Be'er Sheva today. ...
7 Jan 2009
Roosevelt grad encourages blacks to become doctors. Comments. January 7, 2009. By Lisa DeNeal. Post-Tribune correspondent. A Roosevelt High School alumnus is sharing his experiences in the medical profession in the book "So You Want to ...
7 Jan 2009
Despite being the keeper of a very well organized blogroll, I was surprisingly flummoxed by a request from a friend of a friend of a friend. She's decided to go to graduate school in an environmental science field, but...
6 Jan 2009