ALONG THE CANNONBALL RIVER, N.D. — Long before Lewis and Clark paddled by, American Indians built homes at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, using the thick earth to guard against brutal winters and hard summer heat. Yet the protesters say they are creating something very different — new resistance against what they say is a seemingly endless number of pipelines, export terminals and rail lines that would transport fossil fuels across or near tribal reservations, risking pollution to air, water and land. Читать дальше...
When Wisconsin hosts Louisiana State at historic Lambeau Field this weekend, players who score touchdowns may be tempted to do the thing that Packers players do when they score there. On Wednesday, LSU coach Les Miles made his position that Lambeau Leaping will result in hitchhiking home. “I promise you that if anybody jumps [for]…
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended the prison sentence of a Sioux City woman serving 10 years for selling synthetic marijuana that caused the death of another teen.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended the prison sentence of a Sioux City woman serving 10 years for selling synthetic marijuana that caused the death of another teen.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Latest on a midair collision in Alaska (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Alaska State Troopers say all those on board two small planes died in a midair collision in the western part of the state. Troopers did not say how many people were in the two aircraft, but the Alaska National
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have signed linebacker Ramon Humber and claimed center Patrick Lewis off waivers. The additions were made Wednesday, a day before Buffalo closes its preseason playing at Detroit. To make room, Buffalo cut kicker Jordan Gay, who spent the past two seasons serving as Buffalo’s kickoff specialist, and guard
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Linn County supervisors have taken a first step toward increasing the county's minimum wage.
Financial markets unit sees 13-per-cent profit drop compared with third quarter of 2015, making it an outlier among Big Six members
MISSOULA, Mont. — A Montana man charged with raping a woman while free on bond as he awaited sentencing for sexually assaulting a child has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Missoulian newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/2c8jOwo ) that Lance Ring was sentenced Tuesday for raping a 6-year-old girl last year. He had pleaded guilty
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on a midair collision in Alaska (all times local):
A census of African savanna elephants in 15 countries between 2007 and 2014 found the population decreased by 144,000 animals.
In June, Cinemark attorneys shook down the survivors of the Aurora theater shooting, demanding $700,000 in legal fees after jurors in May ruled against the 28 victims and their families.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have signed linebacker Ramon Humber and claimed center Patrick Lewis off waivers.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have signed linebacker Ramon Humber and claimed center Patrick Lewis off waivers.
Cloud software maker Salesforce.com Inc forecast third-quarter revenue below estimates as it saw some softness, primarily in the United States, sending the company's shares down by 7.7 percent in extended trading. For the third quarter, Salesforce said it expected an adjusted profit of 20-21 cents per share and revenue of $2.11 billion-$2.12 billion. Analysts on average were expecting an adjusted profit of 24 cents per share on revenue of $2.13 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Читать дальше...
FEEL HER WRATH.
"I'm using a quinoa flour..."
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"My flowerpots and biscuits are only half iced."
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When Mary really liked the look of Toby's cake.
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"It's a softer biscuit. It's not too crunchy."
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I’m clocking out and going home.
When this happens to you right at the start of your shift:
Twitter: @beckie_cook
Or worse yet, when this happens:
Twitter: @amdiazart
When you drop a 5-gallon bucket of ice in the middle of the kitchen:
Twitter: @croccodi1e
When you get stuck filling all the salt shakers:
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man charged with raping a woman while free on bond as he awaited sentencing for sexually assaulting a child has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health officials are strengthening warnings about the potentially fatal consequences of mixing prescription painkillers and sedatives like Xanax, saying the combination can lead to breathing problems, coma and death. The Food and Drug Administration said it will add a boxed warning — the strongest type — to nearly 400 medications about the interaction, including opioid painkillers, opioid-containing cough medicines and benzodiazepines, which are used to treat anxiety, insomnia and seizure disorders. Читать дальше...
The horror of Syria’s war is in the millions of pictures that are too gruesome to circulate—charred limbs stacked outside hospital wards, bloated bodies rotting in sniper alleys, a toddler plucked from the rubble without a head. It is in a group of relatives trying to carry the sixty-pound corpse of a man who died of hunger—the boiled grass he’d been living on could no longer sustain him—but struggling under his weight, because they, too, are starving to death. It is in a generation of orphans... Читать дальше...
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario — Ariya Jutanugarn is trying to complete another hat trick — and she’s giving a misbehaving old friend another chance. Jutanugarn said she will use a driver in the LPGA Manulife Classic, the first time she has put the wild, but long club in play since winning the Kingsmill Championship in May for
Kim Kardashian is opening up about her struggle with Psoriasis. The 35-year-old reality star took to her website to talk about how she’s learned to accept the skin condition. “Since I was first diagnosed with psoriasis in 2010, I’ve been pretty open about my struggles with it,” Kim wrote. “I have that one patch on [...]
