Demoralized Republicans adjourned the 109th Congress at 5 a.m. yesterday with a near-empty Capitol, closing the door on a dozen years of nearly unbroken GOP control by spending more time in the final days...
Last month, a group of Republican royalty gathered to be wined and dined by Gov. Mitt Romney in Boston. On Friday night, they ate at Copia, a pricey Mediterranean steakhouse. On Saturday, they had breakfast...
In the summer of 2003, shoppers in Southern California began getting a break on the price of milk. A maverick dairyman named Hein Hettinga started bottling his own milk and selling it for as much as 20...
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A homeless man tried to set himself on fire to protest the city\'s treatment of the homeless population, but was thwarted by bystanders before he could go through with it, police said....
All of the Christmas trees inside the terminal at Sea-Tac have been removed in response to a complaint by a rabbi. A local rabbi wanted to install an 8-foot menorah and have a public lighting ceremony....
First and second place are the best, third is good for a small laugh. The rest not so much. Second Place Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News The night before the burial of her husband\'s body, Katherine...
AUSTIN C.O. Drumm is fuming mad, but James Gray is breathing easier. Both are talking about the $1 increase in the tax on a pack of cigarettes that Texas smokers will start paying Jan. 1 as part of the...
...is the apparent discovery, at the Vatican, of the sarcophagus in which St. Paul was buried. I posted on it <a href="http://www.plnewsforum.com/ » View the article
The Employee Free Choice Act As the end of the 109th Congress approaches, the AFL-CIO says it is getting ready to reintroduce the Employee Free Choice Act. According to a message on the unions website,...
Congressman William Jefferson has been re-elected to Congress, according to WWL-TV election analyst Greg Rigamer. With two-thirds of the vote counted, Jefferson had a 6,000-vote lead over challenger Karen...
John Lennon met the IRA and offered to sing at a fundraising concert for republicans after Bloody Sunday, according to a new book about the murdered Beatle out next month.The pacifist singer was so incensed...
check this out- With a secret laboratory located behind a safe at his Seventrees, Ltd. holster shop in the garment district, Theodore evoked comparisons to a fictional master of lethal gadgetry, Q,...
Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase \'war on terror\' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world.The...
The outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has said the new UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, should strike fast on management reforms or the door might be closed forever. "The question...
Southern Nevada has long been a place where architectural imagination runs wild (think volcano, pyramid and New York skyline), where would-be developers ignore the constraints of reality and hope their...
Tallahassee - Orlando Democratic State Sen. Gary Siplin has earned a distinction unique in the history of Florida: He\'s the only legislator to remain in office even though he is a convicted felon.And Siplin...
A child\'s need for a father will no longer be a consideration when a woman seeks fertility treatment, ministers will say this week.The move which comes despite widespread public opposition and which will...
