Silent auction raises £1500 for charity

A SILENT auction to raise funds for Strathkinness Primary School and SANDS (Still Born and Neonatal Death Syndrome), the UK charity supporting bereaved parents and their families, has netted almost £1500 for the two causes. (28/07/2010 16:21:44)


Benefit fish fry to be held Saturday

A fish fry and silent auction for 6-year-old Ben Stewart will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Blakey Auto Plex Suzuki in Bossier City. Fish fry plates will be available for $10 courtesy of Cypress Inn. The silent auction will begin at 4:30 and winners will be announced at 6 p.m.


10 Things To Do This Week

Silent Bob, quilts and acoustic gumbo are on the entertainment menu.


Goa's frog poachers feed taste for ‘jumping chicken'

At night during the annual monsoon rains, hundreds of tropical villages in rural Goa come alive with the cacophony of croaking bullfrogs calling for mates after months in hibernation.


Chiesi Seeks to Suppress Galleon Comments

“You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law.” Familiar words to anyone with knowledge of the law or, for that matter, late-night TV shows, but Danielle Chiesi, a central figure in the Galleon Group insider-trading case, claims she was not made aware of her rights the morning of her arrest in October 2009, The Wall Street Journal ...


Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer examines the scientific battle against aging through the bizzare career of the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.


Treasure Coast communities banding together to fight crime

The 27th Annual National Night Out Against Crime is coming to a neighborhood near you on Tuesday and will provide neighbors a chance to meet and discuss crime concerns while learning about crime prevention.


Survivor of Mont. bear attack says she played dead

A woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy campground was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone, she said Thursday.


Tulsa Shock To Go Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness

The Tulsa Shock and Tulsa area breast cancer organizations are joining forces for "Breast Cancer Awareness" night Friday at the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa. Tulsa Shock


Scene & Heard: HollyRod Foundation's DesignCare '10 fundraiser

Also, 'Songwriters: The Next Generation' Holly Robinson Peete and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, welcomed more than 500 guests to the historic Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills for DesignCare '10, a fundraiser for the HollyRod Foundation (www.hollyrod.org), which provides care for patients living with Parkinson's disease and autism.