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- A year later, moms still hope for Iran hikers' release Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 12:09PMThe mothers of three Americans detained in Iran for a year have put their own careers on hold and turned to what's become a full-time job for them: attempting to secure their children's release. Iran - United States - Middle East - 2009 detention of American hikers by Iran - Politics
- Year Later, Moms Fight for Hikers' Release From Iran Prison Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 8:04AMThe mothers of three Americans detained in Iran since July 31, 2009, have a new full-time job: attempting to secure their children's release from prison in the face of espionage accusations. | Obama Weighs in on Fight EXCLUSIVE: Firms Ignore Sanctions? Hundreds Injured as Quakes Rattle Iran
- Mothers work full-time to get hikers released from Iran prison Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:12AMPINE CITY, Minn. (AP) -- Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang.
- Ways to recycle old clothing Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:29AMIt's usually a tough call.
- Ambler Housing Alliance, Beth Or grow food for needy Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:08AMWhen the Inter-faith Housing Alliance of Ambler received a $5,000 grant for a community garden, its executive director, Laura Wall Starke, thought the flower beds outside the group's transition residence for homeless families would be the perfect location. The families would be able to walk right out the door to pick.
- Sex offender gets prison term Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 12:13AMA Suttons Bay man this week was sentenced to state prison after being found guilty of criminal sex charges earlier this month. William R. Tooley, 45, of 104 E. Adams St., was convicted in 13th Circuit Court on July 15 of criminal sexual conduct fourth read more
- Telemedicine Brings Doctors, Patients Together Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:01PMA camera and a computer can let you speak face to face with anyone in the world, and now that same technology is being used locally in the medical field. The Susquehanna Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has teamed up with the University of Rochester and Johns Hopkins University to offer patients a new telemedicine program. The treatment will allow patients with Parkinson's and other ...
- Iran Hikers' Moms Work Full-Time For Their Release, A Year Later Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 7:36PMPINE CITY, Minn. Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.
- Moms Work Full-Time For Hikers' Release From Iran Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 5:59PMCindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.
- Moms work full-time for U.S. hikers' release from Iran Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 5:43PMPINE CITY, Minn. -- Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was...
- Moms Keep Up Fight To Free 3 Held In Iran Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 12:30PMNearly One Year with No Formal Charges Filed, Mothers Tell Iran "Enough is Enough"
- Area news in brief Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:43AMHOUMA — A Houma man facing the death penalty was rearrested on first-degree murder charges Thursday after his grand jury indictment was dismissed on technical grounds.
- Moms Keep Up Fight To Free 3 Held In Iran Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:30AM"We Can't Just Keep Doing This. But Of Course We're Going To": Hikers Near One Year In Iran Captivity
- 215 West Celebrates Grand Opening Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:01AMOn July 22nd, Jupiter Realty celebrated the grand opening of its signature residential property, 215 West. Located at 215 West Washington Street, the building is the first high-rise apartment residence inside The Loop in the last 15 years, and is among the first to be developed for LEED certification.
- Detained UC Hikers Mark One Year In Captivity Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:47AMThree UC Berkeley graduates, who allegedly wandered into Iran while hiking in a border region, marked a somber one-year anniversary Friday of their apprehension and imprisonment.
- U.S. hikers near 1 year of imprisonment in Iran Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 7:46AMSaturday will mark the 1 year anniversary since three American hikers were captured and detained by Iran.
- Warren's Garafola earns recognition for her work as school principal of Horizon High School Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 7:45AMWARREN TWP. – Township Committeewoman Carolann Garafola, who is the principal of Horizon High School, Livingston, operated by Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey, received the first Distinguished Leader Award for Public School Principal in June from The New Jersey Council for Administrators of Special Education (NJCASE).
- When sheep can’t help you sleep Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:21PMIt may not seem surprising, in a society where energy drinks, mocha-frappuccinos and 12-hour workdays are so highly valued, that North Americans aren’t getting much sleep.
- Dr. Conrad Murray -- Son On a Beach Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:14PMFiled under: Conrad Murray , Michael Jackson , Photo Galleries , Summer , Stars In Heat " Do not worry " ... Dr. Conrad Murray was merely rocking his infant son to sleep while taking a dip in Miami today where he and baby mama Nicole Alvarez are on vacation. As we first reported, the LAPD believes Dr. Murray sent shipments of Propofol --… Read more
- Kids & Horses ... and hope: Incline nonprofit shares outreach stories to help kids, adults Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 10:50AMKids & Horses Executive Director Alexis Hill and Carson City resident and riding center regular Jim Jueneman, right. MINDEN, Nev. — Beneath helmet and glasses, Jim Jueneman is wincing. The muscles in his legs are contracted and stretching.
- Disabled boy closer to getting new home Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:40AMIt took about three hours for Dominic Stratton's old house -- a converted 1940s chicken coop -- to come down Wednesday morning.
- Man With Gun Arrested at Kids' Therapy Center in Winter Haven Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:40PMA Winter Haven man who walked into a pediatric therapy center Wednesday morning with a semiautomatic handgun will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, Winter Haven police said.
- Inside The Mind Of A Hoarder. Two-Part Series On Q13 FOX News At 9 & 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 6:26PMIf you watch the show "Hoarders" you may know her. A Louisiana woman living in piles of garbage and dead cats. Tonight we talk with her son who moved all the way to Western Washington to get away from his mom. Jason Brunet says he was teased all the time as a child, because of his weight but also because of the way he smelled.
- Connecticut June 2010 New Business Starts Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:31PMThe following business starts were recorded in June 2010 by the Connecticut Secretary of the State's office. When available, the name of a registered member or officer is given.
- New York Musical Theatre Festival Adds Six New Shows Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 12:45PMFellowship!, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, Therapy Rocks, V-Day, Petrouchka and the Korean musical Special Letter are among the productions that have been newly announced to run as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival this fall.
- How rights of disabled have changed in 20 years Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:28AMJesse Leaman has a doctorate from UC Berkeley in astrophysics, did his postdoctoral work with NASA and is preparing a scientific paper on supernovas while he applies for jobs and grant money to support his research. He's also paralyzed from the shoulders... University of California Berkeley - NASA - Doctorate - University of California - United States
- Dirty pools blamed for making people sick Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:10AMThe News Four WOAI Trouble Shooters examined public pool inspection reports and find many had to be closed this year due to poor maintenance.
- Pumpkins Stage Benefit For Hurt Musician Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:29PMChicago's own Smashing Pumpkins are taking a tour detour to help one of their own. Tuesday night The Metro was rocking with a benefit show to help raise money for Madina Lake base guitarist Matthew Leone, who was nearly beaten to death trying to be a good Samaritan last month.
- Eccentric New Yorkers Without Indie Quirk in The Extra Man Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 5:05PMDelicate, gangly Louis Ives (Paul Dano) yearns to be both a Gatsby -era gentleman and a pretty young lady. Caught fondling a lacy brassiere, he's dismissed from his teaching post at a Princeton prep school and heads to New York with writerly aspirations, sharing an East 91st Street apartmen...
- Cops: Robbery motive behind Schaumburg hammer attack Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 4:59PMA 15-year-old girl accused of putting her Schaumburg neighbor in a coma by attacking him with a hammer in March is currently in the care of Streamwood Behavioral Health Center where she is awaiting evaluation by an expert from the West Coast on Aug. 3.
- Montebello mom says visit from DCFS drove son to kill himself Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:56PMA Montebello woman whose son committed suicide June 8 said Monday she thinks a visit that day from a county Department of Children and Family Services case worker and police drove the 11-year-old to hang himself with a jump rope.
- Cleaning House. Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 10:10AMCleaning House: Community Groups Help Hoarders Purge
- Dion Rice molested a 10-year-old girl a decade ago; today he wants a place to live and a job Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:26AMDion Rice stands outside his stepmother’s house at 13 The Circle in Hornell with his wife, Felicia and son, Julian. The family has not been able to find a place to live because of Rice’s status as a Level 3 sex offender.
- Injured toddler's baby sitter pleads guilty to endangerment Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:52AMThe baby sitter of a toddler who was injured in his care pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of child endangering.
- State Briefs: July 27 Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 11:00PMA suspect wanted on various charges was captured by Knoxville Police Department officers on Saturday - despite his use of hot peppers.
- Baby sitter pleads guilty to child endangering Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:06PMThe baby sitter of a toddler who was injured in his care pleaded guilty today to one count of child endangering. The child, now 4, is getting therapy to learn how to walk and is disabled, said Erin Wheeler, his grandmother and primary caregiver. He has several seizures every day, she said.
- Helping Amputee Veterans Regain Their Lives Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 12:13PMFor Rob Kislow, getting shot was a kind of relief. He remembers a moment of otherworldly calm as the percussive roar of gunfire and the voices of soldiers dissolved into white noise. He blinked back blood. He saw his limbs flailing weirdly, as though they belonged to some other body.
- Connecticut May 2010 New Business Starts Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 11:46AMThe following business starts were recorded in May 2010 by the Connecticut Secretary of the State's office. When available, the name of a registered member or officer is given.
- Hartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty 2010 Winner Profiles Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 10:31AMHartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty 2010 Winner Profiles
- Bedbug numbers swell Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:40PMCity devises public health strategy A Southeast Baltimore boy developed a severe leg infection from an untreated allergic reaction to a bite. A Hampden man threw out his possessions and fled his apartment with only a bag of clothes and a handful of papers. A Mount Vernon woman who struggled for months to rid her home of the pests finally sought therapy to deal with the trauma.
- Crime in the City Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:06AMBy Matt Williamson, Enterprise-Journal Darlene Van Norman stands in the spot where robbers assaulted her, pushing her down. She uses a cane now after breaking her hip in the incident.
- 7-year-old Napa girl stricken with cancer Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:55AMWhen the nausea and headaches started, Napans Summer Davis andKC Ross had no idea their young daughter was battling cancer.
- Condition of girl hit by truck is upgraded Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:24AMCLEVELAND - The mother of a Vermilion girl critically injured when she was struck by a truck while crossing Liberty Avenue this week continues to show signs of improvement. “She’s breathing on her own now that they’ve taken the tube out,” Vanessa Nalepka said of her daughter, Krissa, 12, who remains in the intensive care unit [...]
- McGillis living simple life Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 11:07PMCOLLINGSWOOD, N.J. -- Moviegoers of a certain age remember Kelly McGillis as Rachel, the Amish widow of "Witness" (1985), a milk-fed madonna who looks as though she stepped out of a Vermeer and into Lancaster County, Pa. Or as Charlie, the hot flight instructor to fighter pilots in "Top Gun"
- Help for Haiti Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 11:06PMRita Devilus still bears the scars from the day the four-story apartment building collapsed on her.
- Plan a Staycation While Still Seeing New Things [Vacation] Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 2:05PMhttp://lifehacker.com/5473179/take-a-modified-local-vacation-and-still-get-away-while-saving-cashThere's nothing wrong with spending your week off at home , but that doesn't mean it has to be uneventful. Weblog Apartment Therapy recommends spending part of your time lounging at home, and the other seeing new things around your city. More »
- Everett woman who was more than a landlady is mourned Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 10:56PMEVERETT -- Judy Garcia was only 5 feet, 2 inches tall, but she was a towering presence in the lives of her family members and the tenants of an apartment building across the street from Everett High School.
- Ex-athlete faces uphill cancer battle Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 5:03PMTwo years ago, Andy Caress was tan, buff and competing in marathons and triathlons. Now, the 25-year-old Glendale native is fighting for his life.
- Ex-athlete battling cancer Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 5:03PMTwo years ago, Andy Caress was tan, buff and competing in marathons and triathlons. Now, the 25-year-old Glendale native is fighting for his life.
- New Florida commission aims to prevent wrongful conviction Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 4:54PMThe 12 people wrongly convicted and later freed by DNA in Florida have much in common beyond their lost years in prison. Most were pointed to as the criminal by eyewitnesses who were mistaken or misled. Some never saw the evidence that should’ve cast serious doubts on their involvement. All had to ask — sometimes repeatedly — for the DNA testing that would eventually prove their innocence. A new ...