Larry Brown has made the trip to Lubbock before as a member of the TCU football team during the days of the Southwest Conference.
While the Texas Tech fans always proved to be a rowdy group and not something a visiting team looked forward to, he was excited about this year’s trip to the Hub City [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]
Tampa Bay Rays centerfielder BJ Upton, who earlier in the day apologized for his lackadaisical base running during Monday’s victory, was once again in the middle of controversy. This time, what happened was out of his control.
Upton hit a grounder to Angels first baseman Mark Teixeira. Teixeira made an errant throw to pitcher Ervin Santana, [...]
Republicans came to Minneapolis for their 1892 national convention. The riverfront hall where that event took place is now gone, but old drawings at the Mill City Museum point out where it stood.
Visitors can also channel political history at the Minnesota State Fair. Sitting or future presidents Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight [...]
“We will start near the George Rogers Clark monument and tour the Old Cathedral Church,” explained Donna Pickett, field trip tour director for the society. “This tour is diverse and includes a stop at the French House as well as the structures now part of the Indiana Territories Historic Site, a composite of structures once [...]
The Boat, Oahu’s ferry service, has canceled a Monday morning round trip.
The Boat said the F-shuttle bus would transport riders from Kalaeloa to Aloha Tower. No shuttle service was available for passengers from Aloha Tower to Kalaeloa.
The Boat runs three round trips each morning and afternoon Mondays through Fridays.
The Boat is a one year ferry [...]
Gov. Bill Ritter is back from a weeklong trip to the Norwegian Arctic to discuss global warming and observe its impact.
“We urge Congress and the President to pass legislation to implement substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,” the participants wrote in a joint statement of action.
The trip was sponsored by the Aspen Institute, the National [...]
Toward the end of his interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Barack Obama was asked by correspondent Lara Logan how much his foreign trip is aimed at allaying doubts about his readiness “to lead a country at war as commander in chief from day one.”
The candidate quickly brushed aside the question. The foreign [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is returning to Indiana on Wednesday for a campaign appearance at Purdue University with Sen. Evan Bayh.
The event will be Obama’s first trip to Indiana since he spent several weeks crisscrossing the state before the May 6 primary, which he narrowly lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama’s campaign said Monday that [...]
Jurors in the trial of Juan Alvarez have gotten to see the four train cars damaged in the crash that killed 11 people in January 2005.
The Metrolink train was traveling southbound from Chatsworth when it slammed into Juan Alvarez’s Jeep that was parked on the tracks near the Los Angeles-Glendale city line.
The cars damaged in [...]
