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Rhode Island Wild Money
The winning numbers in the Rhode Island Wild Money lottery drawing for Saturday were: 5-6-14-20-33-Extra 15
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Financial reports filed in commissioner races
Four candidates are aiming to fill the two contested seats on Comal County Commissioners Court. Republican Donna Eccleston will face Democrat Larry Horton for the Precinct 1 seat being vacated by Jack Dawson.
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Miller has financial edge over Boone
Campaign season is upon us, and local political hopefuls already are fattening their coffers in preparation for the general election. The first round of campaign finance reports were turned in Tuesday by candidates looking to fill three local seats which will be up for grabs in November.
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$20K Earrings Found In Truckload Of Trash
NEW YORK -- Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glittering gems in a reeking truckload of trash. A Staten Island jeweler has gotten her 3-carat diamond earrings back after she, her husband and city sanitation employees sorted through a smelly heap of garbage.
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The simple steps that can stop your holiday heaven turning to hell
As schools break-up this week the great summer getaway will soon be on. For millions of Britons this is the main event of the year – a time for some much-needed R&R. But, unfortunately for too many travellers, the holiday that's meant to be a little slice of heaven turns into hell, with a myriad of potential spanners in the works – from overbooked flights to lost or stolen luggage.
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Budget infusions up to the voters
Voters will head to polls on Monday from noon to 8 p.m. to decide whether to override Proposition 2 ½ to supplement eight town budgets for fiscal 2009.
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Bosses join the IVF learning curve
Thirty years after the first test tube baby, firms are starting to acknowledge the need of would-be parents to take time off, says Neasa MacErlean
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Should you hire a middle man if you want to take on your bank?
Banks rake in £3.5bn a year charging us for unauthorised borrowing, bounced payments and the like. Some people have not taken this lying down: in recent years, consumers have managed to reclaim around £1bn of these charges, successfully arguing that they are unfair. But millions of us still remain out of pocket. An Office of Fair Trading report last week concluded that bank charges lacked ...
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We have to wake up to wills before it's too late
I feel a lot of sympathy for Christine Gill in her courtroom battle for the estate of her deceased parents, which began last week. After caring for her mother and father for many years, she could reasonably have expected better than to find they had left their estimated £2.3m estate to the RSPCA, which incidentally is just about the UK's wealthiest charity. Understandably Christine feels ...
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Inflation hits Delhi politics
It was as easy to esteem Chaudhry Charan Singh as to underestimate him. He brought down the Janata government in 1979 and won the undying contempt of urban India which had invested so much passion in the first non-Congress government in Delhi. At one level he had charming simplicity.
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