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Landon Milbourne scored a career-high 24 points, and No. 25 Maryland cruised past New Hampshire 82-55 Friday night in the Terrapins' final tuneup for the Maui Invitational. Complete Story...
For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games.
Imperial Sugar Co. said Friday it has entered a three-way joint venture to build a cane sugar refinery next to its existing factory in Gramercy, La.
Oprah Winfrey will end her show after its 25th season wraps in 2011, according to publicists for her production company, Harpo.
Five environmental groups have filed legal challenges to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel.
A Long Island woman convicted of acting as a "straw buyer" in a mortgage fraud scam has been ordered to give lectures on the perils of participating in such criminal schemes.
Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress — and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past.
Two General Motors cars due in showrooms next year must be hits to help the automaker turn around sales and pay back its big debt to U.S. taxpayers.
Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts. Even so, with the guaranteed income of traditional pensions disappearing, most investors have little choice.
Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.
A federal Agriculture Department official in southeastern Minnesota is announcing $17 million in grants to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers.
A federal judge is reconsidering his decision that the mothers of two women allegedly slain by FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are not entitled to compensation for loss of emotional support.
Horrified by the excesses of dictatorship, Latin Americans discarded the strongman model at the end of the 20th century and limited politicians' time in power.
Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg will drive for Formula One team Williams next season.
Gov. Bill Richardson predicted that New Mexicans will face higher taxes next year to deal with the state's continuing budget problems.
A jury found Dell Inc. liable Monday for $12.8 million in damages over unfair competition and conspiracy claims in a lawsuit involving the city's problematic crime camera surveillance program.
If it were a television series, it would be called "Defying the Odds."
State regulators have given approval for a surface coal mine on private lands in southern Utah.
Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jerry Simmons envisions a future of brighter, more efficient lights, with people even being able to tune the color of light in a room to suit a mood or the time of day.
Angela Merkel was sworn in Wednesday for a second term as German chancellor and her new center-right government took up the task of tackling the country's tough economic situation a month after national elections.
Ford Racing says its first motor built specifically for NASCAR will make its debut next weekend in the Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.
A small company that's pushing a billion-dollar nuclear power plant in Idaho now says it wants to build another one at a different location.
Apple Inc. updated its iMac desktop computer line Tuesday and introduced a mouse that responds to the touch of fingers instead of using buttons or scroll wheels.
New molestation charge; wrong man jailed 8 monthsA southeast Missouri man is charged with statutory rape and child molestation in a case where authorities now admit they kept the wrong man in jail for eight months"
Why Are Eggs Harder to Peel?There is some evidence that peeling a hard-boiled egg is not as easy as it was a couple of decades ago. The reason why might surprise you -older eggs are easier to peel, and the eggs we eat are fresher than ever!
20 New High Quality Free FontsEvery now and again we take a look around, select "fresh" high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects.
To Create Jobs Today We Must Focus On Creating A New Energy Grid!By focusing on solutions we have available today, and utilizing resources we readily have available in America such as Natural Gas, we will reduce our unemployment rate of 10.2%.
A Better way to flyEveryone hates flying, but these new innovations in terminals and airplanes might change the reasons why you hate it.
Obama Wants Revised Afghanistan War Options - NYTimes.comPresident Barack Obama won't accept any of the Afghanistan war options before him without changes, a senior administration official said, as concerns soar over the ability of the Afghan government to secure its own country one day.
Good Bloggers Make Good Neighbors, New Survey ShowsBack in the day, it was assumed that heavy Internet geeks were a bunch of basement-dwelling, trenchcoat-wearing, socially maladjusted introverts. However, a new study from the Pew Internet ...
1964. Richard Burton, who deserved a Knighthood. Peter O'Toole, who turned a Knighthood down. And Sir John Geilgud who deserved every accolade of his career.
New License Plate Unveiled for New YorkState leaders unveiled the new gold and blue license plate Tuesday. The Department of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing the new plates for registration renewals that expire in May 2010. Drivers will have to pay a $25 plate fee for cars and $12.50 for motorcycles.
Weekly column introduces you to a Different neighbouring treeMontreal Gazette Introduces a new weekly Column, garnering support for the urban forests in North America. This will engage the public and help to educate in an interesting and novel way.
'Teabaggers' Aggressively Pushing Hoffman's Candidacy Prompt Poll Workers in Two Towns in 23rd Congressional District to Call the Cops to Stop Them From Violating State Law Against Campaigning Within 100 Feet of Voting Stations; Backlash Against $2 Million Ad Blitz By Outsiders M …
Republican Candidate Pulls Out a Day After Right-Wing Group Pulls Dirty Trick With TV Ad Disguised as Liberal Group Praising Her Support for Abortion Rights and Same-Gender Marriage; With Less Than 24 Hours to Go Before Voters in Upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District Go …
Capitalist With a $A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic "Atlas Shrugged," Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike.
'America's Next Top Model' Creates Stir After 'Bi-Racial' Photo ShootWeeks after an Australian variety show made headlines around the world after a group of white performers donned blackface to perform as the Jackson brothers, Tyra Banks is making headlines herself for turning her latest "America's Next Top Model" candidates bi-racial for a photo …
Senate panel kicks off climate bill drive - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsChu talks of energy opportunity in the United States Congressional hearings with DOE, but why is he giving all of the research and development obtained in proposals to China, then? He funded only 20 million for US biofuels companies and set up a technology transfer mechanism to C …
Florida Bracing Itself for Even More ForeclosuresThe Florida housing market is slowly and steadily recovering after a surge of foreclosures left the state with dwindling home values. However, a new rush of foreclosures looks as if it will saturate the area once again.
President Obama's speech to New Orleans Gloria Keith comments: President Obama's speech to New Orleans is a message about "Our (America's) Duty to the Unfortunate".
Design Plans for Midtown TowerRochester's Midtown Tower will be a place to live and work. We'll learn more about the vision and the design for the structure Monday Morning.
Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2009 : 10 : 14 : NZ man to receive 'alternative Nobel' awardA New Zealander is one of four recipients of the Right Livelihood Awards in Sweden.
Kinder, Gentler Spider Eats Veggies, Cares for KidsEach of the world's 40,000 spider species survives by hunting and killing — except, that is, for Bagheera kiplingi, the world's first vegetarian arachnid.
Submit to the New YorkerAn interesting article with useful advice on how to submit to the New Yorker.
Every so often a game hits shelves that captivates and entrances the audience from start to finish. Uncharted hit shelves two years ago with audiences expecting a good game, but a getting more than they bargained for – a great game.
Gas Extraction Method Could Greatly Increase Global Supplies OKLAHOMA CITY — A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.
A copy of "Manual of the Common Council of New York" has recently surfaced in rural Alabama. Mrs. Wendy S Sherker has recently revealed her discovery of the historic volume. Published in 1836, it has been hidden unseen in a secretary cabinet belonging to her for many years. Mrs.
Titanic anniversary cruise to repeat original route, menuThe historic journey will leave Southampton in early April, 2012 and will reach the exact location where the Titanic sank on April 14, 2012, marking the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
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