Belize vacation - Lively exchange sparks council meeting

Lively exchange sparks council meeting
Eureka Reporter - It was the storm before the calm. Members of the City Council and the city s police chief had to step in to control several volatile exchanges between an angry resident of Rio Dell and Mayor R.L. Bud Leonard at Tuesday night s council

Making family memories in Los Altos
San Bernardino County Sun - Young children like being busy, adolescents like a little freedom and parents generally hope for a Norman Rockwell-type vacation worthy of a scrapbook. However, many times, when all is said and done, family vacation memories turn out to be something

Authorities detain 46 Haitians in Hillsboro, seek boat owner in
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - HILLSBORO BEACH As politicians in the United States fought over illegal immigration, another boat left northern Haiti crammed with people seeking a better life. On Friday morning, the 45-foot cabin cruiser landed on this upscale community's coast

Investors helped to fuel housing boom
Seattle Times - U.S. home sales would have been little changed last year had it not been for investors, who were lured by price increases that soared as much as 49 percent in some regions of the country. As sales of new and existing houses rose 4.6 percent to 8.36

Cookie tins preserve sweet memories
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Bernard Hawk might have his job to thank for his happy marriage. A 44-year veteran at Interbake Foods before retiring in 1997, Hawk would come home to his wife and four children smelling like Girl Scout cookies. "I told him that's why I married him

Thievin K-Fed
antiMUSIC - Launch reports: Thomas Dolby is blinding mad, and science has nothing to do with it. The subject of his ire is, surprisingly, Britney Spears's husband. On his official website's blog, the new waver behind such '80s hits as "She Blinded Me With

home : lifestyle
Herald Journal - You ve probably heard the old proverb, The journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step, but have you ever considered the value of that one step and the step after that and the step after that? With spring s official arrival, area

Irreverence becomes her
Contra Costa Times - SARAH VOWELL may be the first person in modern times to find James Garfield an interesting president. To be fair, it's Garfield's eccentric assassin, Charles Guiteau, that Vowell finds significantly more interesting than the president himself, but it