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  • Browns have a new Man(gini) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:37PMBEREA, Ohio—On one of the recovery days he built into his team s training camp schedule, Eric Mangini leans back in a plush chair inside his apartment-sized office overlooking the Browns lush practice fields, spits tobacco juice into an empty cup and lets out a hearty laugh.
  • Browns have a new Man(gini) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:29PMDavid Richard Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini, right, talks with side judge Larry Rose during a challenge in the second quarter of an NFL preseason football game against the Detroit Lions on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, in Detroit.
  • "Now You Know": 'Sondheim on Sondheim', the Two-Disc Album, Gets Aug. 31 Release Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:29PMPS Classics officially releases the two-disc Broadway cast album of Sondheim on Sondheim on Aug. 31. The biographical musical revue that featured video clips of the composer-lyricist sharing stories of his career, craft and life is preserved on a recording that mixes spoken audio tracks by Sondheim, plus his songs.
  • Browns have a new Man(gini) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:41PMPublished: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 3:52 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 3:52 p.m. BEREA, Ohio - On one of the recovery days he built into his team's training camp schedule, Eric Mangini leans back in a plush chair inside his apartment-sized office overlooking the Browns' lush practice fields, spits tobacco juice into an empty cup and lets out a hearty laugh.
  • Grand Traverse Band joins Asian carp lawsuit Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:32PMThe Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians filed a motion Tuesday to join Michigan and the Great Lakes states in a lawsuit regarding the concern of Asian Carp. It's the first motion by a tribe to join the litigation.
  • Browns have a new Man(gini) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:24PMOn one of the recovery days he built into his team's training camp schedule, Eric Mangini leans back in a plush chair inside his apartment-sized office overlooking the Browns' lush practice fields, spits tobacco...
  • Obama has the Oval Office redecorated Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:16PMWASHINGTON (AFP) - The Oval Office was completely redecorated while Barack Obama was on vacation, the White House said Tuesday, just hours before the president speaks to nation on Iraq from this symbolic seat of his administration.
  • West harbour out, Aberdeen in for Pan Am stadium Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:11PMHamilton was racing toward a cliff and certain destruction by supporting the west harbour as the preferred Pan Am stadium location. But Ward 8 (west Mountain) Coun. Terry Whitehead decided to avoid the financial disaster by selecting an alternative site.
  • Local Vacant Building could become After School Haven Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:46PMThe Salinas Police Activities League, or PAL, could soon have a new headquarters at the Old Salinas Armory Building.  PAL wanted to use this building for its headquarters, but has been unable to do so because  bill sb856, which was passed several years ago, blocked the City of Salinas from selling or using the old building for uses unrelated to the building or or renovation of a new police ...
  • Henrico School Board pleased with fixes to laptop program Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:40PMHenrico County School Board members today said they are pleased with the administration’s response to correct problems found in an internal audit of the district’s one-to-one laptop initiative.
  • Cal State Stanislaus ordered to release documents on Palin's appearance Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:05PMA judge says officials had violated California's open records law by refusing to make public the papers involving the former Alaska governor's participation in a campus fundraiser. California State University officials violated the state's open records laws when they refused to release the contract and other documents related to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's recent fundraising appearance at a ...
  • Community Notes Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:37PM* All YA art contest entries must be in the Linton Public Library by 5 p.m. Categories are photography, painting, sketches and pottery/sculpture. Contest rules are posted at www.lintonpl.lib.in.us or may be picked up at the library.
  • NYT: A simple wireless network? Not likely Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:32PMThe technology industry would like us all to believe that vast numbers of Americans are happily streaming feature films, Twitter feeds, photos and home movies from the Internet to every TV in the house. The reality is that setting up a home network to make all that happen is still a more daunting task than most home improvement projects.
  • Transcript of Cleveland Browns President Mike Holmgren announcing team's Ring of Honor Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:29PMTranscript of news conference with Cleveland Browns President Mike Holmgren announcing team's plan to establish a Ring of Honor at Browns Stadium.
  • The Night Note: Cameras and Lead Contamination Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:24PMThe Night Note is your one-stop shop for the evening's best headlines. Read it. Use it. Love it. Photography - Arts - Shopping - Camera - Equipment and Services
  • Toll Brothers Executive Sees Gold in Cheap Land Prices Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:07PMDouglas "Doug" Yearley, the new chief executive officer of Toll Brothers Inc., is trying to end three years of losses at the nationà s largest luxury home builder and is pressing on with a strategy to buy land at sunken values even as demand for new homes is sluggish.
  • Arroyo writes letters of condolences to China PM, HK chief Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:11PMIn the letters both dated Aug. 26, Arroyo, now a representative of Pampanga, condemned the “reprehensible act of brutality” and demanded that justice be served to “honor the memory” of the victims.
  • Dexter Chamber of Commerce leaders resign over dissatisfaction with buy-local campaign Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 3:56PMThe president and executive director of the Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce have both resigned over dissatisfaction with the director's execution of a buy-local campaign. Executive Director Mary Ann Falzon, who held the position since early July, resigned "on her......
  • A Simple Wireless Network? Not Likely Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:23AMWhen one of the first instructions a popular wireless Internet router from Netgear gives its owner is a choice between the security protocols known as WPA-PSK (TKIP) and WPA-PSK (TKIP) + WPA2-PSK (AES), you know the home networking industry has problems.
  • $162 million prison opens Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:19AMThe 316-bed expansion to Centennial lockup will start accepting inmates Wednesday.
  • Cape medical facility remains unstaffed Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:14AMFALMOUTH — A $5 million medical examiner's facility near the Massachusetts Military Reservation has remained mostly unused since its completion more than two years ago.
  • YMCA thieves implicated Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:12AMOLIVE BRANCH - The Olive Branch Police Department obtained arrest warrants Tuesday for the suspects implicated in the locker room thefts at the Olive Branch Family YMCA.
  • Sex cases threaten Philadelphia housing czar's job Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:10AMPHILADELPHIA — For more than a decade, housing czar Carl Greene earned kudos for transforming the city’s moribund public housing agency into an innovative, hard-charging workplace.
  • Original Kermit, friends return to their hometown Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:36AMWASHINGTON (AP) — The original Kermit the Frog, his body created with an old dull-green coat and his eyes made of pingpong balls, has returned home to the nation's capital, where the puppet got his start.
  • Gubernatorial hopeful Corbett tours IRMC Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:35AMGubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett said while he hasn’t read all 2,000 pages of the health care reform bill, he’s heard from community hospitals such as Indiana Regional Medical Center that the impact is “going to be hard.”
  • Susan Antilla: Sex harassment at work gets weirder, scarier Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:52AMNEW YORK -- Not that I think it’s weird that a brokerage firm chief executive would pin a female clerk on the floor by putting his shoe on her breast (the right one, if you must know), or that some insurance company guy in Fullerton, Calif., would put a sample of his semen in a female colleague’s water bottle. Twice.
  • Dick Fuld in exile Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:44AMEver since Lehman Brothers imploded and filed for the largest bankruptcy in history nearly two years ago, the firm's former chairman and CEO, Dick Fuld, has been a little on edge.
  • Toys"R"Us, Inc. Launches Educational Program Encouraging Parents to Be Vigilant About Product Safety and Keep Record ... Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:00AMToys"R"Us, Inc. today announced the launch of a new national Product Safety Vigilance Program to provide consumers with proactive steps they can take to become advocates for children's safety. Â The program includes "Eight Steps to Keep Kids Safe," a checklist to help parents stay informed about product recalls, and a Product Record List to assist parents in tracking purchases and gifts.
  • Our View: It's time for openness at universities Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:59AMThe state Senate wisely passed a bill requiring university foundations and other auxiliary fundraisi
  • Penn State to lead 'energy innovation hub' at Navy Yard Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:43AMA research consortium led by Pennsylvania State University won up to $129 million in federal funding to develop an "energy innovation hub" at the Philadelphia Navy Yard - a project expected to create and retain 1,200 jobs in the area immediately and as many as 100,000 over the next five to 10 years, officials said Tuesday.
  • BBC should have a religion editor, says Church Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:23AMSpokesman praises corporation's output, but says it needs a specialist correspondent to act as 'trusted guide' The Church of England has called on the BBC to appoint a religion editor to act as a "trusted guide" for people with faith as well as those without. The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester and the Church of England's senior spokesman on communications, said it made no sense to ...
  • Absolute Radio 90s to join Digital One Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:23AMNew digital station to go on national DAB platform for trial period Absolute Radio is to put its newly launched digital station Absolute 90s onto national digital radio platform, Digital One. The station will join the national digital audio broadcasting (DAB) multiplex for a five-week trial period until 30 September. Launched in June this year , Absolute Radio 90s is currently available on DAB ...
  • BBC Salford HR director quits Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:21AMHuman resources director Paul Gaskin joins long list of BBC executives who have refused to make move to northern HQ The BBC's human resources director for its new Salford HQ has become the latest senior BBC executive to decide not to move to the BBC North base. Paul Gaskin quit the BBC after less than two months in his £190,000-a-year role. Neither the director of BBC North, Peter Salmon , nor ...
  • Mark Wood to run Future Publishing Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:21AMFormer ITN boss to be UK chief executive of publishing group behind Fast Car, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer Former ITN chief executive Mark Wood is to run Future Publishing's UK business. He will take charge of titles including Fast Car, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer at the stock exchange-listed magazine group. Wood became a non-executive director at Future in April last year but will step down ...
  • Tennessee News Digest Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:17PMThe news editor is Teresa Wasson and the photo editor is Mark Humphrey. Reach the Nashville bureau at (800) 453-1282 or (615) 373-9988 or apnashville(at)ap.org.
  • Wells Fargo Builds CMBS Business Once Led by Wachovia Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:49PMWells Fargo & Co. is plunging back into the commercial mortgage-backed securities market that helped fell Wachovia Corp., the bank it bought in 2008 for $12.7 billion.
  • Newell plies the pen and pencil for the 21st century Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:21PMNewell plies the pen and pencil for the 21st century
  • First Look: Orb Brings the Net to Your Living Room Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:47AMCan a disc sell where Apple's Box failed? Apple - Macintosh - Articles - Companies - Apple II
  • Murphy in war of words with SDLP over water furore Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:22AMRegional Development Minister Conor Murphy has rounded on the SDLP over its support for sacked NI Water directors. Related Stories Sheep taken by rustlers with an eye for quality Plan to dig up cemetery bodies is a desecration, claim families Masterclass offered to musicians Pipe bomb found near west Belfast police station Apology over Claudy bomb 'cover-up'
  • Tuning in to the ‘female vision’ Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:01AMTo develop female leaders, companies need to really understand how women see the world
  • Toll Brothers’ Yearley Sees Land as ‘Gold’ in Rebound Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 10:19AMDouglas Yearley Jr., the first non- Toll brother to lead Toll Brothers Inc., has a plaque on his desk with a warning: “You can buy more land in an afternoon than you can get rid of in a lifetime.”
  • ROBERT RAEMORE: Letter to the Editor Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 10:05AMIt is beyond my comprehension that these PSAC athletic administrators could/would bring this lawsuit. They think that they have been unjustly compensated for the time they spend doing their jobs.
  • Ohio company hopes to cash in on shift to mobile Internet Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 9:40AMThe year-old company markets its mobile platform to medical equipment and device companies, which use IMS' software to deliver training and product support materials to sales reps in the field.
  • Harris Teeter to begin selling lottery tickets in NC stores Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 9:10AMSubmitted by Scott Pickey on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 10:00am. READ MORE: RALEIGH, NC (NEWS RELEASE) – Lottery players in North Carolina will soon be able to buy their tickets at their favorite Harris Teeter store.
  • Medical loss ratio rules for insurers could bring controversy to Sebelius' office Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 11:04AMOnce the National Association of Insurance Commissioners finalizes recommendations on insurance companies' spending on medical costs versus administrative expenses, the next stop for that proposal will be the desk of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Politico reports.
  • MLB: Pirates turn profit despite losing Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:51AMPITTSBURGH - Don't feel too sorry for the cellar-dwelling Pittsburgh Pirates. Losing has been profitable. The Pirates made nearly $29.4 million in 2007 and 2008, according to team financial documents, years that were part of a streak of futility that has now reached 18 straight losing seasons.
  • Climate protest: 12 arrests during day of 'mass action' in Edinburgh Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:54AMTWELVE people have been arrested during a day of "mass action" by climate change protesters targeting the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) headquarters and other s
  • CARL KOLOGIE: Reunited servicemen shared gridiron moment in 2004 Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:50AMA chance meeting of two Indiana natives at a rifle range on a U.S. Army camp in South Carolina turned out to be more than just one of those small-world stories.
  • GOING GREEN, WITHOUT BEING TOO PREACHY ABOUT IT Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:35AMNEW YORK — With a white Kangol cap tipped on his shaved head just so on a recent swampy morning, Sean Meenan led a group of girls, ages 11 to 14, around the cobalt blue, lime green and Sunkist orange outdoor patio of Habana Outpost, the ecologically conscious restaurant he owns in Brooklyn.
  • Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:20AMNEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of impassioned demonstrators — all waving American flags, but separated into two groups by police — descended on the site of the proposed mosque near ground zero, with opponents chanting, ``No mosque, no way!'' and supporters shouting, ``We say no to racist fear!''