Three British divers are missing after failing to return from a diving trip off Bali, the Foreign Office said.Kathleen Mitchinson, Charlotte Allin and James Manning, along with two other divers believed to be from France and Sweden, have now been missing for more than 24 hours.The alarm was raised after the group failed to return […]
LONDON (Reuters) - The closure of several power plants on Tuesday has cut supply so severely that distribution companies should reduce voltage to customers to compensate, a spokesman for network operator National Grid said.Utilities responded to National Grid’s earlier warnings on Tuesday that there was not enough supply available to operate the system comfortably by […]
In the old days, New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas were the holidays of note listed on each calendar.In recent times, holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, along with religious/ethnic observances of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Chanukah, Passover, and Kwanzaa began to be listed as […]
DND Handout photo Cpl. Michael Starker of 15 Field Ambulance was killed in an ambush on Tuesday, May 6. He is the 83rd Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan since 2002.A Canadian soldier was killed and another was wounded by enemy fire during an ambush in Afghanistan on Tuesday.Cpl. Michael Starker, a reservist and […]
Where in the world is Matt Lauer on the last day of his world wide travel adventure? Matt goes to Praslin in the Seychelles archipelago island. Seychelles is a vacation destination that’s more about scenery than sightseeing.This is why yesterday Matt told the viewers that his last destination on Where In The World Is […]
By JAMIE PILARCZYKDOWNTOWN - Celebrating the National Day of Prayer, staff and members of the downtown branch of the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA gathered at 7 a.m. in an empty office in their workout clothes, bowed their heads and held hands in prayer.“This country was built on the foundations and principals of God’s word,” said […]
Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1924) is an American film actor, known for playing larger-than-life heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. He has been long involved in political issues and was president of the National Rifle Association between 1998 to 2001 and was elected to the board […]
By ALLEN G. brEED – 16 hours agoThe preacher in him would have continued speaking out against injustice, war and maybe even pop culture. He would likely not have run for president. He probably would have endured more harassment from J. Edgar Hoover.Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. […]