Austrian basketball league players Michael Fraser and Kevin Nelson have been banned for seven months for doping, the league said Wednesday.
Fraser, a Canadian playing for the Fuerstenfeld Panthers, and Nelson, a U.S. citizen on the Kapfenberg Bulls team, are also required to reimburse the cost of their doping tests, the league said in a …
Attorney Michael Shakman asked a federal judge Monday to appoint amonitor to oversee all hiring in Cook County government -- just asthe judge has done for the city of Chicago.
Shakman's motion is based on two Chicago Sun-Times investigativereports about patronage hiring in Cook County government.
Shakman is the attorney who filed the 1969 lawsuit that forced thecity, county and other local governments to forbid hiring and firingbased on political clout. But as the Sun-Times stories have shown andas Shakman's motion alleges, patronage hiring has become rampant incounty government again.
"It has become clear that . . . Cook County has engaged insubstantial, …
Unlike many strip shredders for paper which require a two-step process for cross-cut consistency, the ReTech RG52P rotary grinder performs that process in one pass. …
British consumers opted to pay off debts rather than go on a pre-Christmas spending spree, the banking industry's main lobby group said Monday, in another sign of the difficult retailing climate.
In its monthly assessment of lending conditions, the British Bankers' Association said the amount of money outstanding on credit cards dropped by 218 million pounds in December, while bank customers continued to pay off more of their overdrafts and personal loans than they took on. Total outstanding borrowing dropped by another 135 million pounds ($301 million), the fifth straight monthly fall.
"Consumer credit was very weak in December as people reined in …
Dale Petroskey, the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame, wasn'ttaking calls Thursday, and I can't say that I blame him.
It's one thing to call critics of the war in Iraq unpatriotic; youcan hardly get in trouble doing that these days. But mess around withBull Durham"? Try to cast a screening of one of the top baseballmovies of recent years as giving aid and comfort to the enemy?
Good grief, man, I know these are troubled times and we're allunder a lot of pressure, but get a grip. I mean, they're going to letPete Rose into the Hall of Fame and kick Crash Davis out?
Move over, Hootie," said Ron Shelton, the writer-director of BullDurham," on the phone from Los …
Seth "Hot Dog" Bailey
Seth "Hot Dog" Bailey, 78, of Baker's Fork Rd., Charleston, diedSaturday, July 3, 2004, at home after a short illness.
He was born July 17, 1925, to Issac Christopher and CassieCanterbury Bailey in Oceana, W.Va. Mr. Bailey was retired from PughFurniture and Meadowbrook Golf Course.
He is survived by his wife, Bessie Louise Skiles Bailey;daughters, Sussion Harper and husband, Gary, and Betty Jo Olive andhusband, Steve; sons, John Oliver and wife, Iona, William Ernest"Bill" Bailey, Arthur C. "Jake" Stover; foster son, Clarence Skilesand wife, Debbie; brothers-in-law, Emory J. Skiles, and Martin I.Skiles; special friend, John Monk; 17 …
The widow of poisoned Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko held an emotional conversation Saturday with a former KGB agent who says he warned her husband about a Russian government plot to kill him.
Marina Litvinenko, 44, broke down in tears as she spoke with Mikhail Trepashkin by phone a day after the former agent was released from jail.
Trepashkin has said he was asked in 2002 to join a group of Russian intelligence agents targeting Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled Russian tycoon living in London, and Litvinenko. He said he warned Litvinenko about the alleged death squad.
After the phone call, Marina Litvinenko told The Associated Press that …
