Rhode Island looks to lure digital media companies with 38 Studios dealSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 9:02PMRhode Island taxpayers placed a huge bet last week that a big-name athlete can win on a new playing field and reinvigorate Rhode Island's fading economy.
Race benefits Goshen teen in need of heart transplantSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:49PMA race in Goshen on Saturday helped out a local teen in need of a transplant.
Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman facing deathSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:40PMBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported
ANN M. CROKESaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:35PMAnn M. (Sullivan) Croke, 72, of Fairfield, died July 27, 2010, in St. Vincent 's Medical Center, Bridgeport. She was the wife of John P. Croke for more than 48 years.
Local biker raises funds for fellow biker hit by carSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:17PMIt's an amazing race, that takes not only physical but mental training. For more than ten years bikers in the Northcentral Wisconsin area have been coming to the Wausau 24 bike race, it's a event not meant for the weak.
Abandoned Monterey Co. Horses Have DisappearedSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:15PMThe SPCA for Monterey County is offering a $5,000 reward for information about abandoned horses that were found Friday evening at a property in unincorporated San Ardo but were gone when authorities returned to the property Saturday.
Three Horses Killed In Car AccidentSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 7:00PMA car hit four horses in the road before it veered off the roadway, through a fence and into some trees.
Editor-At-Large: Say 'fat', and stop the nation eating itself to deathSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 6:14PMIf I call you fat, is it kind or cruel? A plain-speaking government health minister says describing the overweight as "obese" isn't direct enough to make them lose weight. According to Anne Milton, if a doctor uses the F-word, we're more likely to realise it's our responsibility to shed surplus poundage. She's expressing a personal view and not government policy, but this no-nonsense approach ...
Bothell woman dies in mountain plunge when chute failsWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 6:05AMINDEX -- A 32-year-old Bothell woman died Sunday after her parachute failed to open properly during a jump off Mount Baring in east Snohomish County, officials said.