| Rep. Campfield wants gay references banned in schools
Before coming to TEA, Wiman spent a combined 30 years as a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school principal. During that time, some of his students' parents were same sex couples. He believes a law like this one could have alienated them from the school. "We have such a diversity of children and families in our school systems," he said. "We don't want any child or parent to feel like they're excluded from the school." More details as they develop online and in Thursday's News Sentinel. .
Al-Qaida suspect arrested over Karachi bombing that targeted Bhutto ...
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, who has been in Pakistani custody before, was arrested on Monday in Lahore in connection with the bombing that hit Bhutto's homecoming parade when she returned from exile, before her killing in a second suicide attack Dec. 27, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. "He is involved in the blasts in Karsaz therefore he has been arrested," Nawaz told The Associated Press, referring to the Karachi neighborhood where the October bombing happened. .
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I live in Florida and thanks to the Republican State Legislature, our voice did not count. Make yours be the voice of reason. Ask Obama to set the record straight or vote for Hillary!Don't let him get away with your vote, he does not deserve it. 02-22-2008 11 wins in a row by Edie | hide/show Feb 9: Washington, Louisiana, Virgin Islands, Nebraska Feb 10: Maine Feb 12: D.C., Maryland, Virginia Feb 19: Wisconsin, Hawaii That makes 10 in a row. Plus the recent Democrats Abroad win, which makes 11. I think they know how to count. 02-22-2008 "Experience" by Robert65 | hide/show Senator Obama's opponent insists that he is too young and inexperienced to be President of the United States.
'Ghost boxes' stand out
There are a lot of empty buildings that could use some sprucing up. If they could do something it would be great for the area," Edge said on a recent afternoon at the shopping center. An owner of the shopping center said the businesses in smaller spaces there, including the karate center, are thriving. The center and several across Georgetown and Horry counties were bustling economic centers when they were built 10 to 20 years ago. But because of consumer shifts in buying and demand for super stores, those centers that were home to large grocers and other stores were abandoned for newer parcels often built on the outskirts of urban areas. "It blights the area and depresses the economy. You don't want to have unused vacant buildings," said Howard Duvall, executive director of the Municipal Association of South Carolina.
Sale of the century (again) at Fishs Eddy
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Need some dinner plates adorned with the Lexus car logo? Or unglazed porcelain hand molds (the five-finger kind once used to make plastic gloves)? Those are some of the more unusual items shoppers can expect to find at a sale later this month inside the Fishs Eddy storage warehouse on Front Street in Stapleton. For those who thought the Manhattan-based tableware retailer had disappeared completely from Staten Island when it closed its Bay Street retail shop in St. George in 2005, there is one last chance to get the bargain home goods in this borough. Never before open to the public, the storage warehouse at 450 Front St. will open for a close-out weekend sale starting Friday, Jan. 25. There the bulk of inventory, stacked high in dusty baskets and boxes, consists of thousands of pieces of surplus restaurant-grade tableware, glassware and silverware, including demitasse spoons, cocktail forks, shot glasses and whiskey jugs, according to Fishs Eddy owner Julie Gaines.
In nod to Spain, Alaska's largest city holds first reindeer run
One had taped a paper bulls-eye to her back. Others masqueraded as carrots and lichen, both favorite foods of reindeer.At the signal to go, the reindeer stampeded into the crowd. Passing tourist shops, the downtown federal building and a stand selling reindeer hotdogs, the animals were well out in front by the halfway point."We thought, 'Ok, they're just going to mosey along,' but they took off running," said Amanda Pelkola, who dressed as a carrot with a friend. "We got smoked by the reindeer." .
Web Site Sells North Korean Luxury Goods
They're potentially just a click away. North Korea, known more for nuclear saber-rattling than its consumer products, is offering overseas shoppers the chance to buy hundreds of its goods via the Internet. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. Those who keep a close eye on North Korea say the move is likely a bid by the perpetually impoverished country to earn cash and also raise awareness about what it has to offer. The Web site — available in Korean, English, Chinese, Russian and Japanese — also sells bicycles, commemorative stamps, roller skates and uniforms for Taekwondo, a Korean martial art. It includes a shopping cart icon and says credit cards are acceptable. But, much like the North Korean economy, the site doesn't work very well.
Sportswear cos riding high on tennis haute couture
When Maria Sharapova, last year's Australian Open runner-up, entered the court in the ongoing championship, she disappointed a few onlookers even before she took out her racquet. The aggrieved lot were the fashionistas, who were seeking out the haute couture of Paris in the Down Under land.
The purists from the top-notch fashion houses were expecting the Russian diva to put on display her Australian Open collection — Nike Sharapova Australian Open Flora dress.
The over-enthusiast had already spotted, a few days ago, Daniela Hantuchova slipping into a similar costume and sweating it out at Medibank International in Sydney. Expectations were high that at the Australian Open, Sharapova will wear something exclusive. But when she finally emerged in the same outfit — albeit in a different colour — their hopes were dashed.
Next Weeks Almanac Digest
In 1996, a suicide bombing at Sri Lanka's main bank killed nearly 100 people and injured more than 1,000. In 1999, a team of international scientists reported it traced the predominant strain of the AIDS virus to a subspecies of chimpanzee that lived in parts of Africa. In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan halted all executions in his state after several death row inmates were found to be innocent of the crimes for which they were about to be put to death. Also in 2000, the European Union warned that its members would diplomatically isolate Austria if its anti-immigrant Freedom Party, led by avowed Nazi sympathizer Jorg Haider, entered a coalition government. In 2001, a Scottish court meeting in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan man in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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