Rory Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has won Nevada's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The chairman of the powerful Clark County Commission had only token opposition on Tuesday's ballot from Frederick L. Conquest of Las Vegas.
He …
State has problems
not named Sen. Byrd
I don't care what a highway or bridge is named so long as they aresafe.
Thanks to Sen. Robert Byrd and his directing federal funds to WestVirginia, our bridges are being repaired or replaced, highways arebeing re-paved and built, and federal facilities are being built thatemploy West Virginians.
Doesn't the Legislature have more important issues to concernthemselves with, such as unemployment, Medicaid, teachers retirement,drug trafficking and workers compensation?
Ida Watson
Hurricane
Jesus does not
love you, U.S.A.
God is angry with the United States of America.
Not because …
Police investigating the playground killing of an orthodontist who was involved in a bitter child custody dispute have arrested a relative of his ex-wife, the police commissioner said Tuesday.
Dr. Daniel Malakov, 34, died Oct. 28 while taking his 5-year-old daughter, Michelle, to a visit with his former wife, Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova, at a playground in Queens. As the child went to greet her mother, a gunman fired three rounds into Malakov's chest.
Mikhail Malayev was arrested in Chamblee, Ga., and his fingerprints matched those found on a homemade silencer used in the killing, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The 50-year-old suspect is …
It was only after police in Cut Bank, Mont., curbed the silver Nissan Rogue after a short chase Monday night that officers identified the two occupants: Daniel Baker 21, of Deerfield and his girlfriend, Kristina Aksman, 20.
On Wednesday, Baker was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Aksman's mother, Lake County authorities said. Marina Aksman, 50, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat that was found in the bedroom near her battered body early on April 1, …
Friday Ndumekle Clements, the adopted son of Chicago Catholicpriest Rev. George Clements, suffered a broken leg last week whilecompeting with an Illinois soccer team in the 1987 European-SovietCup Tour. He has returned to Chicago. English midfielder Matthew Whitshire, recently signed by the Sting,impressed general …
WASHINGTON - A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
The video, produced for the Homeland Security Department and obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, was marked "Official Use Only." It shows commands quietly triggered by simulated hackers having such a violent reaction that the enormous turbine shudders as pieces fly apart and it belches black-and-white smoke.
The video was produced for top U.S. policy makers by the Idaho National Laboratory, which has studied the …
Today is Saturday, June 20, the 171st day of 2009. There are 194 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 20, 1893, a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
On this date:
In 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
In 1837, Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
In 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state.
In 1909, actor Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
In 1943, race-related rioting erupted in Detroit; federal …
