If you stereotype beauty pageant contestants as shallow or ditsy, Shenita McConis will blow your mind. McConis is the reigning Miss Black Kentucky and hopes to take the Miss Black USA title later this month at the national competition in Las Vegas. But she’s also a project engineer and master planner for the Louisville district […]
This is Sports Sound Off, where you can speak your mind on anything you wish. Because of the large number of calls received, not all can be published.Freshwater fishing bigger — I was just looking at the fishing special section in Sunday’s paper. Out of 12 pages there’s a page-and-a-half on freshwater fishing and the […]
The win puts the Thorpe Wood-based club in a commanding position at the head of Division One at the halfway stage of the 10-match season.The 9-0 win was their third whitewash of the campaign with the team having only dropped sets in a 6-3 win over Deeping and in a tight 5-4 success over Stamford.The […]
ABC Family channel is set to broadcast another Harry Potter movie marathon this upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend here in the US. As scores of readers have let us know, the channel is set to broadcast the first four Harry Potter films, starting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Friday, July 4 […]
Johnny Leonard had three hits, and Nick Lattanzo connected for a pair of hits, as the Connellsville Crush defeated Revolution Red, 11-6, in senior division play of the Tri-State Palomino League.Greg Welsh added a double and was the winning pitcher with three strikeouts.Doug Jupers and Mike Slater each doubled for Revolution Red. Sam Wysni fanned […]
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE – 1 day agoSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Matt Cohler, a pivotal player in Facebook Inc.’s rapid growth, is departing the popular online hangout to find other promising Internet startups for a prominent venture capital firm.Cohler will remain Facebook’s vice president of product management through the summer and then […]
Letting down the drawbridge on the castle he built himself, Paul Des Roches begins a new journey with wife Julie. The couple has been running and growing Castle Village for 36 years. There’s a castle for sale in Midland.Actually the entire Castle Village is up for grabs.Entering year 36 of running the tourist attraction they […]
WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) — The International Monetary Fund(IMF) will increase financial assistance to Benin by 150 percent and approved 16.4 million U.S. dollars on Monday to mitigate the impact of the high food and fuel prices, according to the IMF website.The Executive Board of the IMF agreed to augment the original aid of 6.19 […]
If you insist on chatting with Facebook and Gmail buddies outside a browser window, then it’s worth taking Gabtastik for a spin, though as far as instant messaging applications go, the most interesting thing about Gabtastik is the technology.As a Site Specific Browser (SSB) app based on Mozilla’s Prism project, Gabtastik, which released a Windows […]
company also owns a muffler shop, B&B Muffler, which was not part of the sale.During its thirty-six years in business, B&B Radiator had seven locations. At the time of sale, it had 44 employees most of whom have been retained by 1-800-Radiator.said he is selling the radiator shops to give himself the opportunity to pursue […]