A mobile home park in Allied Gardens must make way for a large-scale residential development, the City Council decided last night.]
All was not lost for the residents, who pleaded with the council to protect their homes. Council members helped shape a plan for developers to give the residents larger rent subsidies if they cannot find [...]
Home-based programs to get elderly cancer survivors to eat better and exercise more may help them improve their ability to live and function, a new study says.
The Texas study found that cancer survivors age 65 and older improved their physical ability, lost weight and body mass when enrolled in a home-based program that sent them [...]
USA Olympic officials and city and state politicians tomorrow morning are expected to announce that Glendale will become the headquarters for the USA Men’s Basketball program, long rumored to make the West Valley suburb its home thanks to long-time hometown executive Jerry Colangelo, who assembled the 2008 gold medal team.
If Glendale gets the nod, it [...]
Tethered to the roof for the third year was a huge, inflatable bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. In the past, the company has showered gifts on her for the advertising privilege, including cases of the alcoholic drink and Mariners tickets.
As crowds enjoyed the final day of Seattle’s annual hydroplane races, a handful of residents living [...]
He must, however, be pretty pleased overall. While the trip will not have the effect of making Americans en masse rise up and carry his banner and declare the election over, I think it’s safe to say that he’s banked some goodwill and credibility whose domestic political benefits will reveal themselves slowly and become more [...]
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 [...]