(U-WIRE) -When I hear the numbers 9/11 I do one of several things: Look for the exit, flip the channel or fight a compelling urge to stuff large wads of cotton in my aching ears. And, if someone yells them in a particularly distressful tone, I suppose I'll call for backup.
WASHINGTON -In a sharp rebuke of a new administrative policy, the House of Representatives moved yesterday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada -Hurricane Ivan took aim yesterday at Jamaica and possibly Florida after killing 23 people in five countries and devastating Grenada, where police fired tear gas to stop a looting frenzy, and frightened students armed themselves with knives and sticks.
When the Board of Trustees meet today, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis will announce plans to give 10 scholarships to minority students beginning next school year.
Three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it remains to be seen whether America will ever be normal again.
This time of year several disturbing trends in news become evident even to the most casual observer. U.S. newscasts, and to a lesser extent newspapers, have lost interest in public policy. Some news managers appear to have adopted profit-maximizing research that suggests audiences do not care about public policies. Instead, we get endless horserace stories about polls, insider stories about strategy, revisionist history and cross-talking angry barrages. So let me try something old school -an explanation of public policy issues and why they clearly point to John Kerry as the far better choice for president.
Many schools and roads were closed in eastern Ohio yesterday after remnants of Hurricane Frances dumped up to seven inches of rain, forcing evacuations and contributing to at least two deaths.
When he speaks about his collection, Doug McCabe folds his arms high on his chest and tips his chin up just slightly. It's pride.
COLUMBUS -Even in Ohio's very best school districts, black students scored consistently lower than whites on the state's new third-grade reading test, according to a review of Department of Education data.
Students who have class after 2 p.m. today may walk into empty classrooms.
WASHINGTON -The Bush administration called government-backed Arab militia attacks against black Africans in Sudan's Darfur region genocide yesterday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has certified a Nov. 2 ballot that includes independent candidate Ralph Nader and a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
WASHINGTON -In the days after a terrorist siege at a Russian school, President Bush asked his top advisers to determine how U.S. authorities would handle a similar attack on an American school to ensure adequate coordination in the unlikely but possible chance of such an event here, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday.
BEREA -Kevin Johnson joked that he's worried about walking toward the wrong locker room on Sunday. He's sure he'll find the right sideline, though. It'll be the one opposite where Butch Davis is standing.
In the world of professional football, it seems like putting your name out on a billboard is just as important as putting the ball in the end zone. With the possible exceptions of Sprint spokesman Joe Horn and the never-silent Terrell Owens, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has emerged as the brashest, cockiest player in the NFL. Even more than the Cleveland Browns' Kellen Winslow II (and that's saying something.)
NEW YORK -Unfairly, unbelievably, Serena Williams was robbed of a point by an umpire's mistake at the U.S. Open, just like her sister was at Wimbledon.
In an effort to give campus professors a stronger influence in administrative decisions, journalism professor Joe Bernt and his colleagues are banning together to reinstate the American Association of University Professors, an organization that focuses primarily on the advancement of academic freedom among university faculty.
NEW YORK -Former President Clinton was talking and taking liquids yesterday, a day after undergoing an operation to relieve four severely clogged arteries, a hospital source told The Associated Press.
MCs and slam poets verbally slammed a cardboard cut-out of the president in front of a wall to wall crowd last night at the Union in the Slam Bush Athens Heat.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -A Marshall defensive lineman was charged Tuesday with malicious wounding in an Aug. 22 fight outside a bar that injured an Ohio State player.
Solutions by The State News