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 [...]
DeKalb County police are looking for two home invaders who tied up a wife and husband in their house Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. in a neighborhood near Emory University, police said. A woman living in the 2800 block of Laurelgate Drive on the DeKalb side of Atlanta pulled into her driveway to [...]
Boy racer chaos on Christchurch streets
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Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans [...]
Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans on the Oxford Terrace Strip and several streets on the city [...]
The Home Depot Inc. wants to build a store in Cameron Park, but some nearby residents are rallying opposition.
The home-improvement retail chain is targeting 33 acres off Highway 50 near Cambridge Road and Country Club Drive. It has submitted a pre-application for a 103,000-square-foot store plus a 35,000-square-foot garden center. Another 123,000 square feet [...]
Though homes arent being built or sold at levels seen in past years, hurting some home merchandise retailers, the worlds largest home improvement retailer is still doing a robust business in opening new stores around the greater East Bay and nationwide.
In coming months, Home Depot Inc. is slated to build new stores [...]
Residents opposed to The Home Depot Inc.’s proposal to build a store in Cameron Park report they have collected more than 1,000 signatures from project opponents.
Archwood Neighborhood Homeowners, a neighborhood group, cites concerns about traffic, noise, aesthetics, light pollution and too much competition for the area’s existing small, independent hardware and paint stores, and nurseries. [...]
High inventory of new homes has prompted the local home builders association to roll out its first-ever incentive program - giving real estate agents a chance to win $50,000 - in an attempt to increase home-buying traffic and sales.
With decreasing new-home prices, increasing inventories and low demand, the program is designed to [...]
Marathons may be lifesavers — and not just for people who
get in shape to run the 26.2 miles in a marathon.
Marathons are more likely to save lives due to road closures on the race
course than to cause runners’ sudden cardiac death.
So say researchers including Donald Redelmeier, [...]
Your lungs may thank you for limiting your exposure to
traffic pollution, especially if you have asthma, two new studies show.
Here’s the quick version of the findings:
Asthma patients had more lung inflammation while strolling a busy street
than in a park.
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