Lee County authorities say a 24-year-old Lehigh Acres woman taught children how shoplift then abandoned them when the group was stopped. The woman was jailed on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, child cruelty and larceny petit theft.
An investigator said the woman walked into a Lehigh Acres store with four children and showed a 12-year-old …
Branko Segota, the Sockers' leading scorer with 75 points, couldbe sidelined for the rest of the season with a broken cheekbone hesuffered last week.
Sting forward …
New York - Daniel Cabrera of the Baltimore Orioles lost his no-hit bid with out out in the ninth inning Thursday night on a single by Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees on Thursday night.
Cano lined a single to left to end Cabrera's bid. The Orioles' pitcher finished with a one-hitter as Baltimore won 7-1.
The Yankees scored …
Commonwealth Games Federation chief Michael Fennell has warned New Delhi that delays in its preparations for the 2010 Games are putting the success of next year's event in jeopardy.
Fennell was reported by the Press Trust of India on Sunday to have written to Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the local organizing committee, saying: "I'm looking forward to some urgent actions in order to bring about the successful celebration of the games in 2010."
He added: "Our concerns are such that unless there is significant change in the management culture and operation of the organizing committee these Games will fail from an operational …
Dr. Gabriel F. Tucker Jr., 62, a renowned pediatrician, diedMonday in his Lincoln Park home near Children's Memorial Hospital,where he had served more than 30 years.
Dr. Tucker pioneered treatments of childhood ear, nose and throatdiseases and the standardization of related medical instruments.
Specializing in constrictions of the airway below the vocalcords, he headed the hospital's ear, nose and throat division and theLaryngeal Development Laboratory.
He was honored at a recent international symposium in Cincinnati,where a …
CAPITAL DOMES: HEAD TO HEAD
Brouillette: Forced pooling and Diet Coke
We all know that drinking Diet Coke is better for maintaining our weight than drinking "The Real Thing." But should government force us to drink what is better for us in our batt�e with the bulge? Of course not; freedom of choice includes the freedom to choose poorly. Yet the arguments for forced pooling in the extraction of natural gas are the same as those who would outlaw sugary cola.
Forced pooling would require landowners to allow a natural gas drilling company to capture the natural gas under their property - against their will - if a majority of homeowners (three-fourths, according to one …
Mao Mao the panda's remains were gently laid in a wooden crate and wheeled to a patch of ground in China's famed Wolong Nature Reserve where a freshly dug grave awaited.
The center's director stood cap in hand and shoveled in a few spades of dirt. Then Mao Mao's keeper stepped forward crying, and arranged two apples and a piece of bread by the grave. Three minutes of silence followed as workers gathered around the grave.
Nearly a month after she was crushed to death when China's devastating earthquake collapsed the wall of her enclosure, 9-year-old Mao Mao was laid to rest Tuesday in a quiet corner of the Wolong panda breeding center.
The facility …
