Archive for February 2010
A landmark restaurant in skowhegan served it's last meal Sunday afternoon. The Empire Grill closed it's doors for good today. The news has hit this town hard. Kerry Pomelow and Tom Miller, owners of the Empire Grill in Skowhegan say they made the final decision to close about a week ago. "It's e . . . Read the rest of this entry »
KUALA KUBU BARU: Describing her now ex-boyfriend as "inhuman" and an "evil animal", the mother of the 3-year-old girl who was brutally beaten to death on Thursday is crying out for justice. Read the rest of this entry »
Christoph Sumann's bid for Olympic gold in the men's 4x7.5km biathlon relay unravelled in a few "evil" seconds on Friday when he missed four successive targets from the prone position in shooting. Read the rest of this entry »
Evidently, Baidu isn't nearly as effective an academic research tool as Google, because the latter's threatened withdrawal from China has got the country's scientists pretty worried. A survey of 784 Chinese scientists by ... Read the rest of this entry »
Members of the Elmira College women's and men's basketball teams earned spots on the Empire 8 Conference all-star teams as announced by the league Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems a credible scenario. A well-intentioned modern army marches off convinced that it can impose its superior culture on a distant country. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to buy a 9.09pc stake in Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Rotana television and media empire for $70m (£45m). Read the rest of this entry »
The Napanee Raiders have advanced to the Empire Junior C Hockey League final for the third year in a row. The Raiders beat the host Picton Pirates 3-2 on Monday night to complete a four-game sweep of their best-of-seven semifinal.[...] Read the rest of this entry »
Such is Courtney Love's reputation for mayhem, the packed house at Shepherd's Bush Empire weren't even sure that she would turn up for tonight's gig. Her band, Hole, might not have played in the UK for over 10 years, but expectations for the evening ahead were running pretty low. Read the rest of this entry »
Earthquakes continue to swarm the Inland Empire, with a series of quakes continuing to rattle the Riverside area, eastern Los Angeles and northern Orange counties. Read the rest of this entry »