Vashon forfeits 3 Missouri high school basketball titles The Examiner COLUMBIA, Mo. (Map, News) - The state high school athletics association on Wednesday stripped Vashon High School of three state championships in boy's basketball for recruiting violations and using ineligible players. | The Missouri State High School Activities Association board voted unanimously to...
Cash-strapped middle class feels the "latte effect" Asbury Park Press | The "latte effect" of the go-go years had consumers spending $4 a day on coffee. Now the downturn is forcing them to rethink the wisdom of such habits. | As inflation squeezes budgets, middle-class Americans are taking fresh stock of their spending...
Jakob Dylan sets aside the band, goes to school with Rubin Asbury Park Press | NEW YORK — At 38 years old and the father of four, Jakob Dylan won't be taking any backpacking trips through Europe. A musician's equivalent of that, however, inspired the first solo album of his career. | Asked by friend T Bone Burnett to be...
Ex-convict guilty of rape of Columbia student Newsday | An ex-convict has been found guilty of raping and torturing a graduate student over 19 nightmarish hours. | Robert Williams was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom of 44 of 46 counts. | The verdict followed a gruesome trial that included dramatic...
Ex-con found guilty of torturing NYC grad student Examiner NEW YORK (Map, News) - An ex-convict was found guilty Tuesday in the rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student who survived 19 hours of nightmarish sadism in which he scalded her with boiling water and attempted to blind her before t...
Ex-con found guilty of torturing NYC grad student AOL NEW YORK (AP) - An ex-convict has been found guilty of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student over 19 nightmarish hours. | Robert Williams was pronounced guilty in a Manhattan courtroom of 44 of 46 counts. | The verdict followed ...
Ex-con found guilty of torturing NYC grad student Lexington Herald-Leader | NEW YORK -- | An ex-convict has been found guilty of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student over 19 nightmarish hours. | Robert Williams was pronounced guilty in a Manhattan courtroom of 44 of 46 counts. | The verdict followed ...
Pinched by prices, more people join ranks of job hunters The Charlotte Observer Higher fuel costs and strained family budgets increase competition for employment. | By Noelle Phillips | The (Columbia) State | At 40 years old, Sonya Ouzts, a stay-at-home mom, is back in the job market. | Expensive diesel fuel is biting into her husband's business so Ouzts is pounding the pavement looking for a job with benefits and a paycheck t...
Gas prices ground nurses The News & Observer CHAPEL HILL - Soaring gas prices are driving some of North Carolina's visiting nurses off the road. Others are refusing to take on new patients. The trend, service providers warn, could increase health care costs and force critically ill patients to leave home. | Naisha David, a nurse's aide at Good Health Services in Raleigh, said she no longer ac...
