Chicago Sun-Times eyeing more cuts with ad drop
Any reductions, which could be announced next week, would follow the January announcement by the paper's union that the Sun-Times had laid off 17 reporters and editors and eliminated another 12 newsroom jobs ...
At least 5 people hurt after car crashes through fence at Branchburg daycare center
Five people -- three children and two adults -- were injured shortly after noon Wednesday when a car went through a fence into a playground at the KinderCare Learning Center on Route 28 in the North Branch ...
As Valley home prices go lower, some think bottom here or near
SEARCH: See how many homes entered foreclosure in your community since January 2008 with our Foreclosure Database San Fernando Valley housing prices continued their free fall in July, plunging 29 percent as ...
Mosaic CEO takes in $5M in - 08
Jim Prokopanko, CEO of The Mosaic Co. , received compensation worth nearly $5 million in fiscal 2008, the company reported Monday.
Foreclosures rise in Mercer; Princeton, West Windsor not immune
Mercer County's more affluent communities, including Princeton and West Windsor, have experienced an increase in foreclosure notices during the past year, according to an analysis by The Packet of records filed ...
Iraqi police disarm girl sent on suicide mission
A teenage girl wearing an explosive suicide vest surrendered to police in the Iraqi city of Baqouba rather than detonating the device, according to video pictures released yesterday.
Natives Hail Role in Shaping Issues at Democratic Convention
Victor Merina is reznet's senior correspondent and special projects editor. A former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter and finalist for the Pulitizer Prize, he also is a senior fellow at the USC ...
Review: Inspiring 'The Writer Within You'
He explains the differences between the novel, memoir and everyone's favorite oxymoronic genre, creative nonfiction, defined by Poynter Institute writing coach Chip Scanlan as a fact-based "union of ...
High gas prices drive down traffic fatalities
Roll back the clock to 1961: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated president. The Peace Corps was founded. The Dow Jones industrials hit 734. Gasoline reached 31 cents a gallon.
And the number of people killed in U.S. traffic accidents that year topped 36,200.
This year, gasoline climbed over $4 a gallon, and the traffic death toll _ according to one study _ appears headed to the lowest levels since Kennedy moved into the White House.
The number is being pulled down by a change in Americans' driving habits, which is fueled largely by record high gasoline prices, according to the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan.
Bogus degrees for educators aren't a shock
Anyone surprised that public school administrators can get bogus degrees paid for by taxpayers, then use those worthless documents to get salary hikes? Me neither.
