Beef Jerky NewsMidway through the season, the Wake Forest football team was shaping up as one of the darlings in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a bounce-back campaign that seemed to hold so much promise. If the Music City Bowl goes awry for the Demon Deacons tonight against Mississippi State, they’ll be saddled with a tag that seems [...]
Land along Platte hosts commercial business, owner becomes involved in river restoration Barber Tim Root hunted on property nestled along the meandering Platte River south of Darr for years. He even moved in a rustic cabin, and installed a wood stove on the land in 1983, where he and his buddies spent the night. When [...]
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry, middle, speaks as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney look on during a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (Credit:Pool,AP Photo/Eric Gay) Rick Perry fought back perceptions he does not have a chance of winning January’s Iowa [...]
Font Size: Commercial drivers will soon be banned from using their cell phones on the job,and now there’s a push to prohibit all drivers in Virginia. the federal ban on cellphones for commercial drivers starts January 3rd. Here in the Valley, a truck crash killed a Harrisonburg High School student on I-81 back in August. [...]
The state of Iowa continues to ignore the fact that vision screenings in school can prevent many current and future problems for our children. Kids need to see to learn. Considering that nearly 80 percent of what a child learns the first 12 years of life is through vision, good eyesight is an essential part [...]
MIAMI — Kevin Garnett will play against the Heat tonight thanks to the good graces of the NBA, which decided not to penalize the Celtics [team stats] forward for his actions immediately following Sunday’s 106-104 loss to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York. Garnett, after missing the potential game-tying shot as the [...]
MARYSVILLE — Traffic on Highway 70 north of Marysville was slowed for more than 12 hours on Tuesday after two trucks took down seven utility poles. Witnesses told investigators with the California Highway Patrol that at about 4 a.m. a red pickup was seen weaving in the southbound lane before swerving off the roadway and [...]
North Carolina State coach Tom O’Brien made one of the guttiest calls of the 2011 football season during spring practice — bench Russell Wilson. Instead of standing on the sideline with a clipboard in his hands, Wilson decided to head northwest and settled in the land of cheese and the Wisconsin Badgers. All Wilson did [...]
(CBS News) In Afghanistan Friday, some 91,000 U.S. troops were celebrating Christmas as best they could in the closing days of a year that has seen the deaths of 412 of their comrades. CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward spent the day with a small unit at a mountainous outpost near the border with Pakistan. At [...]
Verdala Palace in Buskett has proven to be a complex logistical challenge in its transformation into the set for L-Istrina. But by Boxing Day, the former Grand Master’s hunting lodge will be ready and waiting to host the 12-hour charity TV programme. Not only will the palace be viewed on three TV stations but it [...]
