An American Summer (Trinidad Express)
Wasn't my first visit: The White House. When I flew into Washington DC one morning in late May, to begin a three-month visit as a house guest at the invitation of a longtime American friend, I was surprised by the chill in the air....more...Fund-raiser set for hit-and-run victim (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The Inspiration Cafe on South Main Street in Washington is a place where you can usually find many of the community's artists and performers hanging out, using the coffee house as a venue to offer their talents to the public without asking a whole lot in return. ......more... Amputee Hopes To Encourage Others (The Charleston State Journal)
Barb Smith's Scleroderma may have contributed to leg loss....more... COVER- Sound of silence: Dick Mountjoy on radio, cancer, and life without both (The Hook)
"Aaall riiight now, baybee, it's aaall riiight now!" For a moment, Dick Mountjoy is back in his element....more... 'Devil worship' teen shoots four (The Courier Mail)
A 14-year-old student disgruntled at being suspended opened fire with two guns inside an Ohio high school in the US, wounding two students and two adults before taking his own life....more... As Niagara Falls / Tales of the strange but true (The Buffalo News)
Calling Indiana Jones...more... Prudence abounds as Brown delays election decision and Cameron gets back to basics (The Scotsman)
GORDON Brown yesterday again delayed his decision on calling a snap election as the Conservatives moved to counter his bid to steal their voters by returning to their traditional issues of tax cuts and family values....more... After grate accident, a dream shatters (Boston Globe)
When Beata Swierczynski saw the state trooper at her front door that morning in July, she assumed he was collecting money for charity. After all, life was going so well for her family, Polish immigrants with two young children and a nice house in the suburbs, that she couldn't imagine that anything might go wrong....more... Health and Fitness (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
I wake up in the Monte Klinikum hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil, my head feeling like the Elephant Man looked and bandaged like Karloff's best mummy. Fresh from a sub-mentum liposuction with transdermal incision, a rhytidectomy and a blepharoplasty -- fat-sucked double chin, face-lift and upper-eyelid chop....more... |