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Gareth Bale winner offers scant consolation
Fittingly, Gareth Bale had the last word in Tottenham Hotspur’s season with a late, curling shot into the top corner...
thetimes.co.uk (6 minutes ago)
Vt. hard cider company takes aim at coffee roaster
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont company that makes hard cider is suing another Vermont company that roasts coffee for trademark infringement over the use of the word "woodchuck."
boston.com (1 hour ago)
Tech innovation not limited to Google's big showcase
Google I/O got most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too. On the exhibition floor at the Uptime Institute Symposium, I/O Data Centers showed software that lets a facilities manager navigate...
pcworld.com (1 hour ago)
Weekend Box Office: 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Opens With "Just" $84 Million.
Here's something I bet you didn't know. Back in 1979 and 1982, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan broke the opening weekend record with $11.9 million and $14.3 million respectively. So, yes, for a brief period, the Star Trek franchise really was in the same kind of company as...
forbes.com (1 hour ago)
Analysis: Missouri GOP success in eye of beholder
Success. That desirable word can have different meanings to different people.Click to Continue »
bnd.com (1 hour ago)
Jay Weston: "Dulce Rosa" Opera at Broad is Magnificent!
Move over Verdi, Puccini, Bizet...(not you, Mozart)....make room for Lee Holdridge and Richard Sparks. Who? These are the guys who have created a new opera, Dulce Rosa, which will enter the pantheon of great operas we all should see over and over again. On Friday evening at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica (1310 11th...
huffingtonpost.com (2 hours ago)
Jennifer Lopez: A design for living
The singer-actress is also a fashionable business tycoon who says "workaholic" is not a dirty word
cbsnews.com (3 hours ago)
Tax avoidance: how to change corporate behaviour
Last week, I was waiting in the queue at the butcher while an elderly lady was being served. Clearly, she was not that well-off and chose the cheapest cuts of meat. When she was done, the butcher asked the assistant serving her how much the bill came to. Told that it was £11, he whispered: "Make it £8." It was a...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
American imprisoned in North Korea spared death gulags, say experts
It's bad for Kenneth Bae, the Washington man arrested in North Korea last year and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but it could be worse, according to people familiar with the workings of one of the world's most secretive and repressive regimes. Bae began serving a 15-year, hard labor sentence on Tuesday for what...
foxnews.com (4 hours ago)
In pursuit of the elusive tax-free status
The IRS is being investigated and heads are rolling since word leaked that the agency was applying extra scrutiny to certain groups’ applications for tax-free 501(c)(4) status. I got a glimpse of the added work that some were being forced to go through. Dear organization applying for 501(c)(4) status: In ...
bangordailynews.com (4 hours ago)
The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran – review
Anand and Kamala are both dreaming big. He's the hardworking boss of a car factory in Bangalore with his eye on a lucrative Japanese deal; she's his domestic servant, who wants her bright 12-year-old son to get the kind of education that will haul the family out of poverty. They are each caught between the city's...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Cole County: Revenue from sales taxes is flat
Sales tax collections in Cole County can be described in one word - flat. “We budget for zero growth and whatever growth we get, we put into reserves," Commissioner Marc Ellinger said.
newstribune.com (6 hours ago)
One winning ticket sold in Florida in historic $590.5 million Powerball drawing
A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were: 10, ...
bangordailynews.com (7 hours ago)
Letter: A good word for 'Family Circus' and 'Dennis"™
I read in your paper the other day that someone didn't like the comic "Family Circus." That's their choice, but I really enjoy that comic. Please keep it.
thonline.com (8 hours ago)
Community rallies to support Warren, Tracy families
Purple and white balloons were tied around the room at Fat Cats Billiards on Saturday afternoon. Friends and strangers poured into the building to show their support and to honor the family of Carrie Tracy Warren. Warren, 30, and her parents, Theresa Russell Tracy, 49, and Richard Allen Tracy, 51, were killed May 8...
blueridgenow.com (8 hours ago)
Murdered Utah woman’s daughters get Disney princess party
Kearns » The little girls seated at Tinkerbell’s green-slippered feet hung on the pixie’s every word. They stared up at her in awe: This blond fairy flown straight out of a Disney movie with wings and magic dust and a giggle that rang like wind chimes in the breeze. She asked the birthday girl a question. “Have you...
sltrib.com (10 hours ago)
Nuclear protester, wife were ready for conviction
Duluth peace activist Michele Naar-Obed doesn't like uncertainty. She has her core beliefs and knows her husband's as well. They are willing to suffer anything to spread their word, based on deeply held religious principles.
duluthnewstribune.com (12 hours ago)
Art review: 'Home' is where the art is
"Home: Interpreting the Familiar" is the title of an exhibit showing through June 23 at the GoggleWorks Cohen Gallery. And indeed the key word here is "interpretation," since the word "home" implies so much to so many. There is a broad sense as well ...
readingeagle.com (12 hours ago)
Soybean ruling may not be last word
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan: 'We think that blame-the-bean defense tough to credit.'
pressherald.com (13 hours ago)
Public pianos part of Lockport’s “sweet summer” plan
LOCKPORT – Many communities have offered themed public art programs, with the decorated bisons of the Herd About Buffalo effort of a few years ago being the best known local example.But less common are places where the art has turned to music.Lockport businesswoman Ellen Martin has cooked up an idea to fill the...
buffalonews.com (13 hours ago)
UFC suspends Diaz: Nate Diaz fined and suspended for alleged 'homophobic' tweet
The UFC suspends Nate Diaz for 90 days after the UFC fighter made a homophobic slur on Twitter. According to Fox Sports on May 17, Diaz used the word when defending another fighter who was stripped of his prize...
examiner.com (13 hours ago)
Thomas Lucente: What’s going on in Obama’s Washington?
I’m not one to toss the I-word (impeachment) around lightly. The current administration, however, is making it easier to call for that drastic step.
limaohio.com (13 hours ago)
Smell the Coffee: Hare wars
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Its said that a mans home is his castle. In my world, though, that sentence needs tweaked. Take out the word "man." Insert "rabbit." Then substitute "castle" with "garage." Sometime this spri...
wvgazette.com (14 hours ago)
Retiring superintendent spent lifetime in Lancaster
At 69 years old, Edward J. Myszka is what you call a homegrown boy in every sense. Having spent his entire life in Lancaster – one that led him to enjoy a 46-year career working for the Lancaster Central School District, ending with him at the helm as its superintendent for the last 7 years – Myszka is a household...
buffalonews.com (14 hours ago)
Fly a flag for Cody: Father waits for word on son missing in action in Afghanistan
A Utah County father says his son was listed by the U.S. as Missing In Action this week, after a bomb went off next to him in...
deseretnews.com (15 hours ago)
Word of the Day for Sunday, May 19, 2013
WORD OF THE DAY maleficent ■ ma.lefi.cent ■ mə lef ́ə sənt Definition: (adj.) Mischievous; harmful; hurtful; evil Example: The alien was not friendly to the earthlings, but rather, a maleficent being.
amarillo.com (15 hours ago)
Forestville student makes video to deter bullying
FORESTVILLE– An 11-year-old Forestville student hopes making an anti-bullying video with other students will go far in her campaign to end bullying, and get others to recognize the negative impacts of the behavior. Sylvea Cleary, a sixth-grader at Forestville Central School, said she witnessed an incident of...
buffalonews.com (15 hours ago)
Father waits for word on son missing in action in Afghanistan
A Utah County father says his son was listed by the U.S. as Missing In Action this week, after a bomb went off next to him in...
deseretnews.com (16 hours ago)
Utah soldier presumed dead after explosion in Afghanistan
The family of an Elk Ridge man serving as Army medic in Afghanistan is waiting for word from military authorities about the fate of their son who was standing near an improvised explosive device when it detonated. Cody Towse was deemed missing in action following the explosion, his father Jim Towse said. Military...
sltrib.com (16 hours ago)
The First Word On 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Based on an early wave of rapturous tweets and reviews, it appears the 2013 Cannes Film Festival has its first truly great film: Joel and Ethan Coen's 1960s folk drama "Inside Llewyn Davis." "The Coens have again taken a real time and place and freely made it their own, drawing on actual persons and events for...
huffingtonpost.com (16 hours ago)
