Fire damages restaurant business expected to re-open Lockhaven Express - CARROLL Members of the Sugar Valley Volunteer Fire Co. took all day to cook up a feast, then found themselves at the Pit Stop restaurant just a half hour before dinner was ready. Nobody was hurt Saturday when the restaurant caught fire at about 3
Ryan faces pivotal decisionChicago Tribune - The case against former Gov. George Ryan has been called "death by a thousand cuts" in reference to the sweeping charges prosecutors have laid out through more than 70 witnesses in the last four months. This week, with the government expected to rest
Related storyEl Paso Times - El Paso's economy has improved during President Bush's second term, several business operators and other El Pasoans said. "No doubt, the economy in El Paso grew in the president's second term," said Gus Rodriguez Jr., 46, whose family operates Beacon
Review finds St. Lucie schools' post-storms cleanup costly Palm Beach Interactive - An independent review of the St. Lucie County School District's $83 million project to get rid of mold and other hurricane-related damage in schools concluded that the project was not "readily cost-effective" but that the district, under pressure to
2 council members won't run Free Lance-Star - Come July, there will be at least two--and possibly as many as four--new faces behind the dais in Fredericksburg's City Council chambers. Four of the seven council seats will be up for election May 2. They are the four ward seats, now held by Tom
'Colorado's party bus'Greeley Tribune - It gets 4 miles per gallon. It's got a bar, kids' corner and three flat-screen TVs. It once shuttled tourists around Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now the 50-foot behemoth -- billed as the world's largest double-decker bus -- rumbles across
Decayed Mobile Home RoofFirst Coast News - JACKSONVILLE, FL -- It was while the family was putting up their Christmas lights that they discovered a serious problem. "My 15-year-old son was putting up the lights," says Sabrina Reed. "He stepped on the roof and it caved in." It was the roof of
Police To Step Up Patrols Around House With Virgin Mary ImageWMTW - MEXICO, Maine -- Police in the western Maine town of Mexico said they'll be stepping up patrols around a home where the likeness of the Virgin Mary was found on a fire-blackened kitchen wall after a fire this week. Sgt. Roy Hodsdon said he is
News from around MinnesotaSt. Paul Pioneer Press - MORRIS, Minn. - The new owners of an ethanol plant here plan to build another one in Stevens County. Diversified Energy Company, or DENCO, was purchased by a Minnesota subsidiary of Brown and Babcock Environmental Investments of Australia. The sale
Council to bid out improvement project Mount Vernon News - MOUNT VERNON City Council passed legislation allowing the city to advertise for bids for the East Chestnut Street Improvement Project, and also heard familiar complaints about noise at North American Segment Company and the Delgouffre sewer