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| Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off |
The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial for the hospital,... |
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 Four people were arrested on Monday, for transferring important American secrets to China, CNN reports. The cases involved three Chinese nationals and one Defense official.
Kenneth L. Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security, declared for the Washington Times that, of all 140 intelligence agencies that try to...
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 Wind-whipped fires near the South Carolina coast have seriously damaged
a number of structures, have sent people away from their homes and have closed
several highways.
About 60 houses were evacuated on Sunday, after the fire
sent the smoke on a distance of 15 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, we read in the Associated
Press....
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Five people died and 20 have been hospitalized with severe
burns, 17 of them in medically induced coma after the explosion and fire at the
Imperial Sugar refinery, near Savannah,
Georgia, which occurred
Thursday night, the Associated Press reports.
The twenty workers were hospitalized Saturday in Augusta, Georgia,
and seventeen...
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 Thomas and Tamitha Garner, who had been missing in the state of Utah for 12 days, were eventually found this afternoon, by the road-plowing crew near the Utah-Nevada state line, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
The couple had gone on a trip to photograph wild horses and ended up blocked in the snow. They were surrounded by reporters,...
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 A SWAT police officer was killed
and another was wounded during a standoff in the Winnetka
area of Los Angeles, California, at the home of a man who claimed
he had killed three relatives, police reported Thursday, according to the
Associated Press.
The conflict began Wednesday night
when a man called the police, saying he had...
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 As it has been expected, the 80-year-old former
advertising and publishing executive Thomas S. Monson was appointed Monday the
16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The
new Mormon leader takes over from Gordon Hinckley, who died on January 27, at
the age of 97, after almost 12 years of tenure.
Monson,...
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 Forget about the professional weather forecast, and be all
ears to Punxsutawney Phil, the animal expert, which predicted six more weeks of
winter, after seeing his shadow this morning, the Associated Press reports.
The rodent was taken out from his habitat by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle,
top-hat- and...
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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Thursday
he is backing Republican candidate John McCain in the race for the White House.
McCain has shown he is "reaching across the aisle in
order to get things done," Schwarzenegger said during a news conference.
The GOP presidential hopeful has "crusaded to...
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 A record number of U.S. soldiers who have served in
Afghanistan or Iraq committed suicide or injured themselves last year, a
study says.
A draft of an internal study indicated suicides among
active-duty U.S. soldiers in 2007 were at their highest level since the Army
began keeping such statistics, The Washington Post reported. In...
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 Rain and snow battered both coasts of the United
States Thursday, while powerful winds raged through the northeast, causing the
death of a construction worker in New York.
New York City officials said the worker fell 12 stories
Wednesday when the scaffold platform beneath him collapsed, apparently because
of high winds, The...
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 Teen Kills Himself in Front of Webcam
An official told Fox News on Friday that a teenager from Florida committed suicide in front of his webcam after he had posted online messages announcing everyone about...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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