Last Updated: February 17. 2011 7:02AM Scott Bauer / Associated Press Madison, Wis.— Wisconsin lawmakers are prepared to pass a momentous bill that would strip government workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights over the loud objections of thousands of teachers, students and prison guards who packed the Capitol for two days of protests. The [...]
AMSTERDAM—A South African photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted prizes. Jodi Bieber’s posed picture, which contrasts the woman’s arresting beauty against the results of the violence done [...]
By Kate Hull Monday, 24 January 2011 AUSTIN — Superintendent Meria Castarphen and the Austin Independent School District’s board of trustees approved staffing formula guidelines Jan. 24 that will result in 485 district-wide positions being cut to help alleviate a potential $113 million deficit in the 2011-12 AISD budget. Personnel costs make up 88 percent [...]
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — to the relief of the winter-weary, the world’s most famous groundhog predicted an early spring Wednesday.Punxsutawney Phil emerged just after dawn on Groundhog Day to make his 125th annual weather forecast in front of a smaller-than-usual crowd who braved muddy, icy conditions to hear his handlers reveal that he had not [...]
UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar fights Gray Maynard at UFC 125. Here’s what we do know: 2010 was another strong year for the sport of MMA with more events than ever before and that lil’ group in Vegas continuing to expand to new regions and promising even more ahead. Based on advance planning, 2011 is [...]
Green Bay — Charles Woodson made the Pro Bowl, Tramon Williams elevated his game to Pro Bowl level and Sam Shields probably was the biggest surprise on the Green Bay Packers’ roster this season. The common denominator is Joe Whitt Jr., the second-year cornerbacks coach who might well be ascending the National Football League coaching [...]
Last Updated: December 23. 2010 5:52PM Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times Los Angeles— the sinister-looking black coupe sits in a corner of the showroom floor, oozing macho and muscle. Square headlights. Evil sneer for a grille. Six cylinders of turbocharged fury. This new car is 23 years old. It’s a Buick Regal GNX, and [...]
Tracy Morgan: Back to work after the holidays. — Reuters picNEW YORK, Dec 21 — Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan is recovering from a kidney transplant undergone earlier this month, his publicist said in a statement yesterday. Morgan, 42, will miss at least two episodes of the television show “30 Rock”, in which he co-stars [...]
9:50 AM Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his new York apartment, police say. NEW YORK — One of Bernard Madoff’s sons was found dead Saturday of an apparent suicide, according to a law enforcement official. Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his apartment in Manhattan’s SoHo section, according to the official. a [...]
One by one, Colorado State’s historic rivals — according to “Fum’s Song” — have disappeared. Denver dropped football. Colorado College dropped down, then out. Mines dropped down. Utah pulled up stakes this summer, and BYU followed in a huff. Now just Wyoming and Colorado remain from CSU’s personalized version of a post-World War II fraternity [...]
