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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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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 Local media report state that National Guard troops in the
northwest U.S. state of Oregon are evacuating residents in a flooded town,
while thousands of residents in the region are without power.
A National Guard spokesman says troops are using boats to
rescue residents caught in the floods in the towns of Vernonia and...
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According to FEMA, almost 3,000 families across Louisiana will have to leave
their government-supplied trailers over the next few months under a new
schedule prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA officials said last week that the agency planned to close all the
trailer camps it runs for victims of the 2005...
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 A five-hour hostage standoff Friday at a Hillary Clinton campaign
office ended peacefully when police arrested a man who allegedly held
three captives claiming he had a bomb.
The suspect, described by US media as a local man in his 40s with a
history of mental illness, surrendered to police in Rochester, New
Hampshire, after a...
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 US President George W Bush marked World AIDS Day with a trip to a
Methodist church, touting abstinence, sexual fidelity and condoms as
ways to combat a disease that kills some 5,700 people a day, most of
them in Africa.
He also announced that he and First Lady Laura Bush would visit
sub-Saharan Africa, the region hardest-hit by...
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 After being found with more the 60 pounds of marijuana in
the trunk of his car ,a California appeals court has ordered the police in
Garden Grove to return the seized marijuana, ruling that enforcement of federal
drug laws did not supersede the state’s allowance of marijuana for medicinal
purposes.
The man, Felix Kha, had a...
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 At least five Amtrak crew members were critically or
seriously injured Friday when their train collided with a freight train
traveling on the same track, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford
said.
The five employees were among 10 people rushed to the trauma
unit of Cook County Hospital, Sean Howard, a spokesman for the...
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 According to local authorities, a strong earthquake struck
the eastern Caribbean yesterday, damaging buildings on several islands and
killing at least one person.
France's overseas minister, Christian Estrosi, told French
television that about 100 people on the French island of Martinique had
required medical treatment for minor...
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 According to local officials, a total of 60 pounds of
allegedly freshly harvested marijuana was found and surrendered to Florida
police Tuesday. A crew collecting litter from the streets found the supply,
stuffed into two large plastic garbage bags, along Interstate 4 near Tampa.
The marijuana was taken to the police, who then put...
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 US President George W Bush's economic policy adviser plans to resign at
the end of the year, the White House said Wednesday, the latest
departure from Bush's inner circle as he nears the end of his term.
Al Hubbard, a businessman and Bush family friend, has headed the
National Economic Council in the White House. He led...
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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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