Four suspects have been arrested on various charges following an early morning robbery at a home in Scarborough.
Police say the occupants of the Burnham Road residence awoke during the Sunday morning robbery and confronted the suspects outdoors. One of the residents was struck with a baseball bat during the ensuing argument. He was treated and [...]
Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
Rose Tremain won the Orange Broadband Prize for women’s fiction last night with The Road Home, a topical novel about an Eastern European immigrant.
Tremain, 64, had been shortlisted four years ago but the British author has never won any of the top three literary prizes the Booker, the Costa and the Orange despite being a [...]
Andre Fleury’s bid for a 20th straight win on home ice may be a little less hectic with Tomas Holmstrom hobbled by a hamstring injury.
The Detroit Red Wing forward with whom he often reluctantly shares crease space was injured in the third period of Pittsburgh’s 3-2 win in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final, [...]
L&G has based its figures on the minimum hourly wage, saying 41 per cent of us would rather splash out ï¿¡700 a year on help than roll up our own sleeves.
This is probably a good thing, if you then read the other report from Halifax Insurance, which claims more than half a million people in [...]
More than half of Americans believe that owning a home is still possible for most people.
In AOL Real Estate and Zogby International’s latest survey, more than 6,500 Americans were asked about an array of real estate issues - from home ownership to housing costs, financial woes and house-hunting tactics.
Respondents said realizing the dream of owning [...]
ICI Paints and The Home Depot will launch the first, truly comprehensive and environmentally friendly paint nationwide in April 2008. The Freshaire Choice? Paint offers exceptional quality, free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and is backed by a lifetime guarantee and GREENGUARD certification. Featuring a custom color palette of 66 beautiful colors available through an [...]
ONE BAYVILLE RESIDENT is wondering when she will finally be compensated for the damage done to her home after a truck drove into it five years ago.
Roberta Phillips told the DAILY NATION that after engaging the services of three lawyers, having two estimates done, one costing $400, and sending several letters to the owner of [...]
Plastic electronics developer Plastic Logic has developed the world’s largest flexible organic active matrix display. The display consists of a flexible, high resolution, printed active-matrix backplane driving an electronic paper frontplane from E Ink Corporation. The display will be publicly shown at the 12th International Displays Workshop in Takamatsu, Japan tomorrow. The displays are 10″ [...]
Siemens has announced a new colour display screen that can be printed onto paper or cardboard and is thin, flexible, and affordable enough to be included in books, magazines, labels, tickets, instructions, multimedia games embedded in the breakfast cereal box and a host of other traditionally “dumb†media where clarity of the message is vital [...]