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- Thousands flock to new Des Plaines casino Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:49PMSweltering heat, long lines, traffic jams, and not enough slot machines were complaints of some as hordes of gamblers flooded the new Rivers Casino, which opened Monday morning in Des Plaines.
- A Chattanoogan On Long Island: Concerto At Ransom Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:12AMFirst paycheck. Most of the time, we gripe about rent being due or bills we have to pay, but you have no idea how good it feels to write a check for rent and to pay bills that I have had to put off for a while. It’s an integrity thing.
- Village Council votes to quit natural gas program Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:22PMLISBON - Village Council voted this week to quit participating in a program that allows residents to contract with natural gas supplier for a locked-in rate.
- Lessons learned? Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:03PMA soft breeze on Center Square and evening is falling and you know how it goes. Trucks and commuters groan their way home after a long day.
- Amateur course right fit for Riley Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:45PMRyan Riley’s victory in the Massachusetts Amateur Championship on Friday at Wyantenuck Country Club certainly showed that embracing the course you are playing can provide positive vibes that translate into superb golf.
- When sharing is not caring Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:54PMAble-bodied people using facilities meant for the disabled smacks of selfishness.
- Cop shoots armed man near River Market Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:14AMCRIME SCENE: View from Statehouse Convention Center down to Markham and Scott, where shooting occurred this morning and a man was assaulted in car last week. (See cars immediately to right of pagoda.) — Photo from Urban Planet. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is reporting that a Little Rock police officer shot a man pointing a gun at him about 2 a.m. this morning at Markham and Scott Streets. The ...
- NASCAR vows to fix traffic woes Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:32PMLOUDON, N.H. Bruton Smith boasted about the largest crowd to attend a NASCAR race this season: More than 100,000 fans filled Kentucky Speedway in its inaugural Sprint Cup Series event.
- Your Neighbourhood: Exploring Belcarra, a little piece of paradise Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:47PMWith Port Moody in their rear-view mirrors, Belcarra residents start to exhale. They’re almost there, almost home. Belcarra — population 676 — is the smallest municipality in the region and seems more like a Gulf Island community than a part of Metro Vancouver.
- Super-cool reincarnation Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:00PMWE ARE fortunate enough to have had all manner of vehicles gracing our driveway – some whose pedigree ensures they are practically sold out before the first car hits the showroom floor, others that will have little hope of sales entering triple figures.
- Bruton, NASCAR Trying To Fix Speedway Traffic Issue Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:39PMBruton Smith and NASCAR both agree that the traffic situation that marred the first Sprint Cup at the Kentucky Speedway needs to be fixed.
- Jennifer Ketcham: 40.5 Things to Do in L.A. Without Your Car, Pt. 2 Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:27PMWe pay up the wazoo to live here. Why not get out and enjoy what is readily available on this, our beautiful Westside? Which is most definitely, the best side. Yay Carmageddon.
- Hotel Review: the W Austin, in Austin, Tex. Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:15PMThe W Austin is near both the nightclub scene and Lady Bird Lake. A sleek glass-enrobed hotel that pays homage to Austin ’s lively night-life scene with a sprawling ground floor of bars and a prime location near many of the city’s clubs, with rates for a double starting at around $300.
- City Food Trucks Work Together to Solve Parking Problem Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:06PMAfter being chased out of Midtown streets by police, food trucks are cooperating to find lots where their businesses can thrive.
- Beating the heat at the beach Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:08PM On Sunday five state parks and part of Hammonassett beach were closed off to cars.
- Viewers say Cruisin’ Michigan Avenue better than last year Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 1:25PMDEARBORN/DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Muscle cars, hot rods and classic cars lined the streets and parking lots on Saturday when the annual Cruisin’ Michigan Avenue Car Cruise rolled through Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
- Retailers told their malls are boring Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 1:19PMMalls have become boring and retailers should think of new and more exciting ways to make shopping a better experience.That is the view of John Albertson, chief executive of the Retailers Association, who told 230 delegates at...
- Tri-State Regional News, Tuesday 7/12 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 9:23AMA Muncie mother is accused of paying a babysitter with alcohol for watching her kids. Police say Lindsey Jones gave her 15-year-old niece the booze after she took care of her eleven-, six- and three-year-olds on Thursday.
- Who Shot Miles & Other Stories from the Blue Coronet Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 8:12AMFrom 1965-1985 one of the New York metro area’s hotspots for live jazz was the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn—the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to be exact.
- City to hold Friday festivals before UF games Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 12:23AMThose in Gainesville for Gator games will now have something to do Friday nights aside from packing the cooler for the next day.
- Ky. Speedway offers ticket exchange for fans Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 8:01PMPhotographer: WCPO Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
- Ky. Speedway offers fans ticket exchange Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 6:22PMKentucky Speedway officials apologized Monday to fans inconvenienced by parking and traffic problems for the Quaker State 400 and offered them a ticket exchange option.
- The electric steering system offers a unique feeling that is quick to turn, and responsive in the corners Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:55PMAfter driving the 2011 Infiniti G37, Ford Mustang V6, and Camaro LS, I found the Hyundai Genesis Coupe in the middle of the competition. After some seat time in the 3.8-liter Track version, I would give the Genesis Coupe a slightly higher hand vote in category of pure performance.
- Wickford gears up for Art Festival Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:07PMStdLogo.jpg By PAUL J. SPETRINI pspetrini@ricentral.com NORTH KINGSTOWN—It would be hard to blame Francie Christophersen if her focus isn’t exactly on this year’s Wickford Art Festival. Now in its 49th year, the Festival has become one of the signature summer events in Rhode Island and, next year, for the big 50th anniversary, Christophersen and her cohorts at the ...
- McBee Station Developer Moves On To New Project Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 11:42AMA developer in Greenville has won approval to build dozens of apartments in downtown.
- Festival strikes the right note Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 3:27AMIt might have been a record for the Athens Street Festival — well over 15,000, perhaps 20,000 people turned out on Saturday for one of Greene County’s biggest bashes of the year.
- Travel: Mississippi town is touting its Civil War heritage Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 1:30AMStanding on the crossties at the intersection where the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad meet in Corinth, I shiver in the morning sun. But not from the chilly, breezy spring air, but more so from a sense of history, for where the rail lines make a perfect "X" is perhaps the most important 16 square feet of land during the Civil War.
- Get to Empire early for a parking space Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 12:05AMParking spots at Lake Michigan Beach Park in Empire are filling up early on busy weekends — especially with nobody enforcing the rules. At the Empire Village Council meeting last week president Sue Carpenter said after seeing how people parked and igno read more
- Strange break costs TWHS grad Lewis lead at US Women’s Open Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 4:05PMCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – When the rain stopped, Stacy Lewis got off a school bus wondering if she was in the U.S. Open or the twilight zone.
- Ambiga, top leaders arrested; Anwar injured Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 6:50AMEarlier LIVE reports
- Lewis loses lead after rain delay Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 5:04AMCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. #8212; When the rain stopped, Stacy Lewis got off a school bus wondering if she was in the U.S. Open or the twilight zone.
- Beaches in Santa Cruz County Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:46PMA list of beaches in the North and South County area. Capitola Beach, Castle Beach, Its Beach, Moran Lake, Manresa State Beach, Sunset State Beach, Natural Bridges State Park, New Brighton State Beach, Pleasure Point Beach , Privates .,
- Outdoors: Multiple depths will be explored in Desmarais and #8217; collaborations Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 3:48PMThere are many very successful local fishermen from whom weand#8217;re never going to learn anything. Some feel weand#8217;re competitors, others are just antisocial. Any angler willing to share his secret spots and successful techniques is a rare friend to treasure, something exemplified by local author Matt Desmarais.
- Tent City is center of fun at Kentucky Speedway Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 3:36PMAbout a dozen or so friends from several states have attended one NASCAR race every year since 2007.
- Traders slam Southwold roadworks that coincide with Latitude Festival Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:19PMPlans to start major roadworks in Southwold on the day after the Latitude Festival ends have been condemned as “ludicrous” by traders.
- Shuttle watchers arrive for final launch; weather window stays open Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:29AMBy Jessica Vander Velde and Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writers Friday, July 8, 2011 CAPE CANAVERAL — The final roar of the space shuttle echoed across Florida Friday as hundreds of thousands of people clapped, cheered and cried while watching Atlantis rocket into orbit and into history. The shuttle blasted off on a minute-long rise into a ceiling of white clouds. After it disappeared, the rap ...
- A weekend spent floating the Delta River is a weekend well spent Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 10:58AMFAIRBANKS — The Alaska Range might be the tallest thing around, but it is no match for the Delta River. The waterway cuts straight through the mountains, flowing north and creating a spectacularly ...
- Development differs between towns Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 9:07AMGreen Street in Champaign, Ill. boasts many bars, restaurants and stores for students of University of Illinois to enjoy. In the distance, there is a 24 story apartment building.
- 92-Yr-Old Holocaust Survivor Struck By Minivan Trying To Park Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 8:44AMAn elderly Queens woman is fighting for her life after a minivan, which was trying to back into a parking space, struck her on 75th Avenue in Queens yesterday morning. Neighbors say that 92-year-old Ilonko Krauss survived Auschwitz during World War II. [ more › ]
- Old Pin Shop Has Plenty Going On Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 8:20AMLocals and celebrities such as John Travolta have come through the gates at the Old Pin Shop Factory, a sprawling industrial era landmark on Main Street poised on the Oakville-Waterbury line.
- Weekend is spent floating Delta River Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:28AMFAIRBANKS — The Alaska Range might be the tallest thing around, but it is no match for the Delta River. The waterway cuts straight through the mountains, flowing north and creating a spectacularly ...
- Guest Column | Hey Tahoe beach-goers: Please pick up your trash Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 11:49PMWhile the photo is a bit blurry, it shows how much recyclable material (not including non-recyclabe trash) Anitra and her boyfriend found on the beach in one afternoon.
- MC Fair opens July 12 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 10:15PMAlong with fluffy pink cotton candy, you can get down and dirty with changing a tire on a partial replica of a NASCAR auto at this year’s Madison County Fair, which opens Tuesday. That’s not all that is new this year at the county fair. There will be remote control ...
- Meter mess in Sarasota Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 4:23PMAfter just six weeks, Sarasota city commissioners have voted to bag the new downtown parking meters, at least temporarily. Business owners complain the meters are hurting, instead of helping them.
- Lake Powell Fishing Report — High Water Challenging Anglers Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:21PMLake Powell has risen over 42 feet since the yearly low point was reached in April. The monthly increase during June was 26 feet in 30 days. The shoreline of the lake has a brand new face.
- Mark Grimson takes on tough CBD challenge Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 1:15PMMany would say he’s got the toughest job in town. But the man charged with dispersing the cloud over Wollongong’s troubled city centre is keeping his eyes firmly on the silver lining.
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- Sports museum shines light on Aggie success Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:39PMBy: Amber Jaura Campus has many places to offer to students. The libraries serve as homes when coursework gets tough and popular dining spots where you and your friends break for a bite to eat in between classes. So where can you go on-campus to view years of ...
- Metro to add buses to new DOD office sites Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:14PMKytja Weir Examiner Staff Writer Follow Her @kytja Metro plans to increase its bus service later this summer to accommodate a massive move of military workers to the Mark Center, Fort Belvoir and Andrews Air Force Base. The transit agency is considering adding new routes, running buses more often and even offering free rides to military workers and government contractors on one line ...
- Use of new West Dublin BART station is increasing Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 6:52PMStation has fewest riders of 44 BART stations, but use is on the rise.
