They will fly an estimated 6,234 miles to Anaheim, Seattle, Oakland, Toronto and back to the Twin Cities. They will be on the road for 15 nights and play 14 games.
This will be the longest road trip since 1969, when the Twins were gone for 17 days and played 15 games. It was a five-city [...]
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 [...]
At least two businessmen who went on the state’s March trade mission to Ireland and the United Kingdom said they were disappointed with Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer, one even saying Fischer hurt his efforts.
“I’m not sure of Jack’s purpose on the trip but it did nothing to help any of the participants’ businesses,” Chris Frigo [...]
More than 200 Chinese mainland tourists will leave today and tomorrow to join a celebration on Thursday in Washington DC, specially held for China’s inaugural leisure tour group to the United States.
The tourists will leave from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to join the event seen as marking a new era in Sino-US relations.
Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao concluded his trip to Japan on Saturday, saying he has achieved the results he had hoped for as he toured the western part of the country on the last day of his five-day state visit, Kyodo News reported.
Hu, the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan in a decade, left [...]
After having packed several T-shirts, warm sweaters, an extra pair of jeans, firm leather boots in case of heavy rain, my favorite khaki hitchhiking outfit, video and photo camera, and an indispensable map of automobile roads, I was finally ready for the trip to a Carpathian village called Delatyn, where I was going to celebrate [...]
The conversation occurred because I was trying to find the name of a long-gone drive-in movie theater in Culpeper County so I could put it on a historical map. Someone finally referred me to Joe Quaintance, who had built the theater.
As Quaintance and I talked, I realized that this man could be considered the 1950s [...]
The title of this DVD is a bit of a misnomer unless you, like the producers, believe the greatest Red Sox [team stats] memories occurred only in the World Series.
Owing to the lack of film from the team’s most dominant era - from 1903-1918 - the period is given an 18-minute summation via photos and [...]
Dr Albert Hofmann, who died last week, was the inventor of LSD. But he was not merely a chemist. He was a revolutionary.
Hofmann changed the way a whole generation looked at the world. This is the sort of statement that is customarily made about thinkers and scientists of the stature of, say, Marx or Einstein. [...]
