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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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 The number of U.S. Army suicides last year was the highest
since records began, with 115 recorded. According to an army official, 115
troops committed suicide in 2007, which means an increase of almost 13% over
the previous year’s 102. About a quarter of the deaths happened in Iraq.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama...
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 The World Bank has announced a new $1.2
billion program to get emergency aid to countries suffering from global food
shortages and to address the immediate needs in the global food crisis. The financing
facility includes $200 million in grants for the world’s poorest countries.
The World Bank announced that it will boost
its...
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The Supreme Court in the American state of Texas has ruled that officials overstepped their authority by taking hundreds of children from a polygamist religious group's ranch. The ranch was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The kids were taken in April from their parents and placed in foster care...
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 Tornadoes hit Nebraska Thursday night, damaging houses and
businesses, derailing train cars, tearing down trees and blowing cars off the
tracks.
A possible tornado touched down near Aurora, about 70 miles west of Lincoln, damaging a few businesses and at
least one house on the outskirts of town, the Associated Press...
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Two trains derailed and collided during the
evening rush hour Wednesday near Boston, hours
after an elevated train derailed in Chicago.
The operator on one of the commuter trains was killed and several passengers
were injured in the collision.
The operator, who was driving the second
train, which slammed into the back of another...
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 A Salt Lake City
couple missing in the Grand Canyon for at
least five days have been found. Despite high winds and rain and cold, they are
alive.
Alan Humphrey, 39, and his wife, Iris
Faraklas, 35, had been hiking the Royal
Arch Route at the Grand
Canyon for nearly a week. On Sunday, the couple’s friends and
Humphrey’s...
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 Democratic Governor Ted
Strickland has empowered the dean of the Ohio State University law school to fill up the
state’s attorney general seat. Nancy Hardin Rogers was appointed to replace the
former Democratic Marc Dann, who resigned earlier this month due to a
harassment scandal.
Dann was dragged into the scandal
due to an...
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 The Great Lakes
are under the threat of global warming and Congress needs to enact a
comprehensive plan to restore the health of the lakes.
Warming over the next century could lower
lakes and expose toxic sediment that has been buried and cause heavy rains that
could lead to more sewer overflows, threatening water quality, a new...
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 The New York Governor, David
Patterson, has directed state agencies to recognize same-sex unions performed
in states or countries where these were legal. According to his spokesman Erin
Duggan, the governor’s indication for state agencies to revise their policies
and regulations accordingly is based on a May 14 memo.
The memo’s...
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 Two Customs and Border Protection officers
from Long Island were arrested on charges they helped smuggle drugs and other
contraband through Kennedy
Airport.
Federal agents arrested supervisor officer Walter
Golembiowski, 65, of Bethpage and charged him
with bribery conspiracy and narcotics importation conspiracy. Inspector...
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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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