HEATH PARK BLACKS U16 ... 4 PERRYSTREETU16...... 2 (ChelmsfordYouth League Division Four) THE visitors had the better of theopening exchanges but failed to make their opportunities count untilman-of-the-match Robbie Purkiss volleyed in Ben Pitman's free-kickto take the lead.
However, it was …
HOUSTON - After a nearly 10-day stay at the international space station that included construction work and a computer meltdown, space shuttle Atlantis was cleared to begin its return trip to Earth.
The shuttle was scheduled to undock from the space station at 10:40 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, with a planned return to Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday.
"There were a lot of things to overcome, but despite those surprises, we managed to do what we always do and meet our mission objectives," flight director Holly Ridings said Tuesday. "The international space station is in very, very good shape."
Atlantis might have stayed an extra day if engineers hadn't been happy with a …
Germany's unemployment rate was unchanged in April at a seasonally unadjusted 8.6 percent as the number of people out of work declined only minimally, an unusual development for the spring month, according to government figures released Thursday.
The Federal Labor Agency said 3.585 million people were registered as unemployed _ only 1,000 fewer than in March.
"The recession in German industry is increasingly having …
Based on sealed reports from doctors, a federal judge ruledFriday that aging reputed mob figure Gus Alex is competent to standtrial on charges he shook down businessmen for hundreds of thousandsof dollars.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James H. Alesia paves the wayfor Alex, 76, once considered a key mob political fixer, to standtrial on extortion charges May 4 with Nicholas Gio, 25.
Co-defendants Lenny Patrick, 78, and Mario Rainone, 37, havealready entered guilty pleas but only Patrick is cooperating with thegovernment. An admitted mob street crew leader, Patrick is expectedto testify against his alleged boss, Alex.
Defense attorneys had hoped to …
Larry Grant's sudden departure in April from the race for the First Congressional District seat caught many-including his own Democratic party-off guard.
It was his second run for the office, and Grant hoped the momentum from his 2006 bid would carry him to victory.
This time around, though, Grant, 62, faced weighty competition for the Democratic nomination from Boise businessman Walt Minnick. The Idaho native sat down with B W to talk politics.
Why did you run in 2006?
I probably shouldn't say this, but nobody else stepped forward. I talked to probably every potential Democratic candidate, trying to recruit someone who would take on the race.
The …
Tim Simpson took the first-round lead in the Toshiba Classic with the best round of his Champions Tour career, a bogey-free, 8-under 63 on Friday that left him a shot clear of 2005 winner Mark Johnson.
The 51-year-old Simpson, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour whose career has been sidetracked by Lyme Disease and a series of injuries and other ailments, is winless in 44 starts in parts of three seasons on the 50-and-over tour.
"I shouldn't still be playing. I'm a walking miracle," said Simpson, who had brain stimulation surgery and an electrode planted in his head three years ago.
He had five birdies in a six-hole stretch in a back-nine …
Firing general manager Randy Smith and manager Phil Garner oneweek into Detroit's season was one of the toughest decisions in teampresident Dave Dombrowski's life, but he knows what's it's like to beon the other end. He was fired by the White Sox in 1985 as vicepresident of baseball operations.
It's been almost 17 years, but it seems like yesterday,"Dombrowski said of getting the ax from Sox GM Ken "Hawk" Harrelson."He took me back to the Bard's Room in old Comiskey Park and said,'Well, Dave, it's you or me.'
"I think it was a power play to him, but I half-expected it. Ithappens when you make changes. He actually was as nice as he could beabout it. It hurt at the …
