'Daddy's in heaven': Rig victims' families share memories, mementos

Sherri Revette cuts through thick pines, guiding the four-wheeler down dirt and mud trails to her tranquil spot, a sandbar along the Chickasawhay River about a mile behind her home in the backwoods of Mississippi.


Riversider Grant rides to easy victory

Riverside's Josh Grant went head-to-head with Murrieta's Josh Hansen. Grant and Hansen ran 1-2 for much of the 15-lap supercross-style race around the funky dirt track Thursday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at X Games 16. After speeding through the famous peristyles and around and under the mighty MegaRamp, Grant prevailed in the Super X Moto X Men's Final.


Win advanced screening passes to see Takers

Synopsis: TAKERS takes you into the world of a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies.


News in brief

Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.


Letters: Perspectives on Gordon Brown

May I say that Christina Patterson's Gordon Brown interview (26 July) really was superb, not only a joy to read as a delightfully quirky personal view and an excellent piece of journalism, but also sympathetic, and extremely fascinating in capturing the contradictions to Brown's personality.


WikiLeaks and the “barbarism that is war”

Crikey readers weigh in on the debate surrounding WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan.


Concert Roundup: John Mayer, Green Day, Willie Nelson, others

John Mayer has shows coming up in Camden and Holmdel.He's only 32, but John Mayer has already established himself as many things: a occasional pop hitmaker, a brutally honest and sometimes controversial interview subject, a dater of celebrities, a phenomenal...


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Maywood Mission, Part I: One man's dream

When the Rev. William H. Eck died in 1933, his obituary gave his age as 67. This would indicate he was born in 1865 or 1866. Fairfield County Infirmary Records list a Wm. H. Eck age 2 and a Matilda Eck, age 24, who entered the institution April 15, 1869, and were discharged May 10, 1869.


It's a retail shopping spree for tenants

This summer is proving to be a good time to shop in Aspen — for retail leases, that is. Probably busier than in recent years, the biannual retail shuffle — when businesses open, close or change locations between the high seasons — is starting its cycle now, at a time when tenants and landlords are making deals to secure spaces in time for winter. read more