Q The narrow shoulder for the carpool lane on Highway 101 south between Palo Alto and Mountain View is causing frequent hubcap losses. No surprise there. But at one spot between the Rengstorff and Shoreline exits that seems fairly straight, there must ...

INVESTIGATORS are still trying to establish how a man fell from the fourth floor of a residential building in Ras Ruman. Indian Biju Vannarath Varghese was taken to Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) at 2am on Saturday morning but was pronounced dead ...

Umuahia — ABIA State government has discovered 1727 ghost workers on the pay roll of its 17 local government councils. The ghost workers were fished out by the biometric data implementation committee set up by the state government to find out why the ...

Naturellement, some New Agers see Bugarach as another likely landing spot for extraterrestrials. And what better day for them to arrive than Dec. 21, 2012? The mayor of Bugarach feared such an invasion of free spirits wanting to be beamed up that he ...

Reports that a secretive mainland businessman with close links to Hong Kong tycoons and mainland officials played a key role in Charoen Pokphand Group's plan to buy HSBC's Ping An stake raise fresh questions about the real buyer and the source of ...

Reports that a secretive mainland businessman with close links to Hong Kong tycoons and mainland officials played a key role in Charoen Pokphand Group's plan to buy HSBC's Ping An stake raise fresh questions about the real buyer and the source of ...

Maybe Obama Really Is FDR's Ghost. A day later I'm still picking myself up off the floor over Obama's comment to Speaker Boehner, related in the Wall Street Journal story Scott linked here yesterday, that “You get nothing; I get that [$800 billion tax ...

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Round House (HarperCollins), is a fast-paced mystery that readers will have a hard time putting down until they've finished it. In the book, the winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction, she takes readers ...

Lokoja — The Kogi State education sector, particularly the primary and junior secondary schools under the Universal Basic Education, has suffered setback due to incessant strikes embarked upon by teachers. The issue has been government's failure to ...

The norms governing the appointment of actuaries of both life and non-life insurance companies may be in a recast mode. The sector regulator, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda), and the Institute of Actuaries of India (IoA), the body ...

Cox-BobLOGO WINNIPEG, MB, Dec. 23, 2012/ Troy Media/ – The lights are on in the small homes arranged in tidy rows, the walkways are shovelled – but there is nobody home. Well, hardly anyone. Only a few law enforcement and military officials have been ...

Hot video: End of the world? A psychic's prediction. New Orleans psychic Cari Roy shares her thoughts on the end of the Mayan calendar. Trending topic. It might not be the end of the world, but a major snowstorm has begun pounding the Midwest. Nebraska ...

It is the season for giving. Even Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive. But I suspect that God knows that it is infinitely more difficult to receive. I once received a Christmas gift from someone I did not like. It was a really nice ...

True, it is Christmas Eve and maybe I should be writing about something cheerful but there may still be government employees who are worried about the anonymous fake transfer notices they have received from the Nationalist Party. Just like the Ghost of ...

"The mystery is always there," Eric Christensen was saying last week. He was sitting at a table in a Monroe Street coffeehouse with his friend Beth Kille. Eric and Beth are songwriters who have known each other for several years. It was the recent ...

Documentary Special: Bee mystery. Nancy Notzon reported this story on Monday, December 24, 2012 08:24:00. Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes). Alternate WMA version | MP3 download. SIMON SANTOW: It's a mystery that has authorities stumped. Hello ...