''Tonight was a great win for the team,'' Smith said. ''Everyone played well and made tremendous plays. We did whatever it took to win.''
Zion-Benton (5-4) took a 10-point lead in the second quarter, but brothers Michael and Aaron Simpson led North Chicago (4-3) in a third-quarter rally that pulled the Warhawks within …
The necessity to regain U.S. economic strength is a pressing issue of national security, but actions taken to regain our strength cannot occur in a vacuum. Rather, economic recovery is one of three important elements of a larger strategic problem. Individually, each of the three elements is an enormous intellectual, political and organizational challenge, but they are a related set, making the problem a colossus.
The first element involves winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while continuing the larger, global war against al Qaeda and its associates in ways that achieve U.S. strategic objectives, increase stability and create a better peace. The second concerns American …
International scientists said Tuesday they are almost certain a mud volcano that has displaced tens of thousands of villagers in central Indonesia was caused by faulty drilling of a gas exploration well _ not an earthquake as claimed by the company.
Debate over the eruption has flared since a seemingly endless torrent of hot, black sludge started oozing from a gaping hole near the country's second-largest city of Surabaya on May 29, 2006.
Well operator Lapindo Brantas, owned by the family of Indonesia's richest man, Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie, says it was triggered by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that occurred 155 miles from the site two days …
BRISTOL, Conn. -- ESPN and Orbitz have teamed up to create ESPNSports Travel, a booking and travel information site for sports fans.
The Web site at sports.espn. go.com/travel/ allows users to bookflights and hotels through Orbitz without leaving ESPN.com. (It canalso be accessed by going to ESPN.com and searching for "travel.")
In addition to ESPN.com's schedules, statistics and sports news,the site includes a sports trip-planner with …
Mayor Daley's salary going up to $170,000? Ridiculous. If itwasn't for his father, he'd be a cabdriver or doorman.
The aldermen are getting a 36 percent raise over four yearswhile a working man gets a 3 percent raise. It's wrong. It's apart-time job, and they are overpaid without the raise.
What kind of democracy is this where the people can't vote onraises (for government officials)? Joe Maile, Near North Side Feeding the Fat Cats
With dismay I learn of a recent bill to pass our revolutionaryRepublican Congress. This bill would allow the self-employed todeduct a percentage of their health insurance bills, which would putsmall-business owners on a …
NEW YORK (AP) — A study calls for new runways and other expansions at two of the three main airports serving the New York region, where airline delays and cancellations frequently wreak chaos on air travel throughout the United States.
But the report released this week by the Regional Plan Association, an advocacy group, also warns of major obstacles, including environmental laws and development that has eaten up land around the airports.
It offered four options to expand Kennedy airport, each calling for one or two new runways. Three of the four options would require filling in parts of Jamaica Bay, a part of the federally protected Gateway National Recreational …
Malaysia's central bank Wednesday raised its economic growth forecast for 2010 and indicated more interest rate hikes are in the pipeline.
Bank Negara Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said growth picked up in the fourth quarter and the increased momentum would help the economy expand between 4.5 and 5.5 percent this year, underpinned by strengthening domestic demand and the global economic recovery.
The government earlier forecast 2010 economic growth at 2-3 percent.
The central bank this month raised its key interest rate for the first time in nearly four years, reflecting a strengthening economic recovery.
Gross domestic product rebounded …
