Flyers center Danny Briere will be sidelined four to five weeks with a severe groin strain. Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said on Wednesday the injury was significant and was expected to miss at least a month. Briere left Tuesday night's win ...
3 Dec 2008
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is considering a new plan to lower mortgage rates in an effort to resuscitate the U.S. housing market, a government official said. The Treasury, which already has a program to buy mortgage ...
3 Dec 2008
'Only in her very last sentence did she say, 'Please tell them (the authorities) to hurry up',' said Mr Puhaindran, who wants people to know his wife was a brave Singaporean. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN 'That's when I really couldn't take it and I told ...
3 Dec 2008
In this March 1999 photo, a gray whale with her baby swims in the Ojo de Liebre lagoon in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Dec. 2: Backed by millions of dollars in venture capital, oil companies like Chevron and Shell are now reporting success in ...
3 Dec 2008
AP – President-elect Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary-designate New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson take part … CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama selected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary Wednesday, naming a ...
3 Dec 2008
DENVER — Reeling from one of the worst losses in his tenure as coach, Sam Mitchell was fired this afternoon. Assistant coach Jay Triano was appointed interim head coach. The remainder of the coaching staff will continue in the organization. “This ...
3 Dec 2008
The cost of attending college has risen nearly three times the rate of the cost of living, and could eventually put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to a National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education report released Wednesday.
3 Dec 2008
University of Louisville sophomore women's basketball player Laura Terry is expected to be out 4-6 weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery yesterday to repair cartilage damage in her right knee.
3 Dec 2008
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Tommy Tuberville is out after 10 years as coach of the Auburn Tigers. That word came Wednesday from The Birmingham News. There was no immediate confirmation from Auburn officials.
3 Dec 2008
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Tommy Tuberville is out after 10 years as coach of the Auburn Tigers. That word came Wednesday from The Birmingham News. There was no immediate confirmation from Auburn officials. Tuberville was 85-40 in his decade with Auburn, including a 13-0 season in 2004 when the Tigers finished No. 2 in the nation. But Auburn went 5-7 this year and was routed 36-0 by rival Alabama, ...
3 Dec 2008
A 14-year-old boy died while scuba-diving with his father because he ran out of air while waiting to be picked up.
3 Dec 2008
AUBURN -- Tommy Tuberville is out as Auburn's football coach, The Birmingham News has learned. An official announcement could come today. Multiple sources in the athletic building confirmed Tuberville's departure. It was unclear whether Tuberville was fired or resigned. Tommy...
3 Dec 2008
CTA rolls out hybrid buses - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. ... CTA rolls out hybrid buses. Comments. December 3, 2008. FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS. The CTA has begun operating the first of its 150 new Flyer Articulated Hybrid buses, which the agency ...
3 Dec 2008
The legal team for famed film director Roman Polanski has asked a California court to dismiss the 30-year-old statutory rape case against him. Suported by information from a recent HBO documentary, Polanski's lawyers are presenting ...
3 Dec 2008
Treasury to pay out Icesave savings. Wednesday 03 December 2008. The €62000 increase in guaranteed savings for people who lost money in Icelandic internet bank Icesave will be funded by the treasury rather than the Dutch banks, ...
3 Dec 2008
Best viewed at "Original Size". It's a steep scree slope, but the trail is quite good. Obstruction Point, Olympic National Park, Washington. 1808.
2 Dec 2008
What they thought made sense was that if investors were willing to fund their startup, then spending some time paying themselves a salary out of the investors’ money and working for their own startup would be a fun thing to do for as ...
2 Dec 2008
Oh, and he also likes to pull rabbits out of men’s bottoms rather than a lady’s mary." [Holy Moly]. 4) "Which celebrity had himself circumcised after his mother died? Tradition in his family dictated that he be circumcised at birth. ...
1 Dec 2008