WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials at a South Florida safari said a woman, wearing an open robe, drove her car through the park and then sped away. A Lion Country Safari official said the woman made comments Wednesday that terrorists were coming to kill the animals. Park employees called authorities and …
Allison Stacey Cowles, a longtime civic leader and matriarch of the family that publishes The Spokesman-Review, has died.
The newspaper said Cowles died late Saturday night in Spokane from pancreatic cancer. She was 75.
Cowles met future Spokesman-Review publisher William H. Cowles III in Cambridge, …
A pilot program that helped Kanawha County students increase theirACT scores - and their chances of having their college tuition paidfor - will be offered in all eight high schools next year.
ACT Prep, a class that when taken privately can cost up to $800,will be offered as an elective for sophomores, juniors and seniorswho want to boost their test-taking skills.
Last year, the course was available to students at Herbert Hoover,South Charleston, Riverside and Capital.
"It's been so successful that we wanted to make it available inall the schools," said Cindy Daniel, assistant superintendent ofcurriculum and instruction. "We also wanted it to be available to …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans bought new homes in December, making 2011 the worst sales year on record.
The Commerce Department says new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy.
Total sales last year were less than the 323,000 sold in 2010, making it the …
In the moments after a shooting at the University of Central Arkansas, two resident advisers worked in vain to revive one of the two fatally wounded students as he gasped for air in a dormitory hallway.
"I was trying to call 911, but I was shaking too bad so I couldn't," said T.J. Frix, a freshman who saw the rescue attempt. He said the resident advisers "both handled it really well. They stepped into action while everyone else" panicked.
Five minutes passed before paramedics made it to the dorm. Two men were bleeding in the hallway; one of them died. A third victim lay dead on the sidewalk outside the dorm.
Police detained four …
Crash diets play dangerous tricks on your metabolism and canresult in the self-defeating "yo-yo syndrome" of repeated weightgains and losses, say health experts at the University of MichiganFitness Research Center. Crash dieting and rapid weight loss signalsthe body to adjust itself to a lower calorie intake. Once the bodyresets itself to the lower metabolic rate, it doesn't immediately popback to a higher rate when normal eating habits are resumed. So if afast is followed by a feast, the body processes the food more slowly,resulting in rapid weight gain. If you the crash diet to reverse thetrend, the syndrome repeats itself. Continued over a …
TOKYO - Japan's prime minister sternly reprimanded the nation's defense minister for saying the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an inevitable way of ending World War II, and asked him Monday to refrain from making similar remarks.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma to "strictly refrain from making remarks that cause misunderstanding," said chief Cabinet spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki.
"It is necessary for Cabinet ministers to pay constant and careful attention to what they say and do so that they do not cause any public misunderstanding," Shiozaki said.
Kyuma's comments offended survivors of the bombings who believe the use of …
