B.B. King funeral to take place Saturday in Mississippi
INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — Blues pioneer B.B. King is being remembered in the Mississippi Delta as a man whose talent was equaled by his generous spirit.
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Maine man to explore final resting places of poets in South
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — A former teacher who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets is looking forward to calling attention to African-American poets on a tour of the South and elsewhere.
McCartney says he's given up pot now that he's a granddad
LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney says he has given up marijuana after many years of indulgence and now prefers wine or “a nice margarita.”
Saturday, May 30: Today in Gold and Silver
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The gold price chopped around in a five dollar price range all through Far East and the first half of London trading on their Friday, but at 8:30 a.m. EDT the price began to rally, but ran into the usual not-for-profit sellers right away. The high tick came at, or shortly before the London p.m. gold fix, before getting sold back to almost unchanged. It rallied
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Broadcast Interview – Available Now
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts – Former US Treasury Official, Co-Founder of Reaganomics, Economist & Acclaimed Author – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist, a columnist and recent author of “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics…
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts – Former US Treasury Official, Co-Founder of Reaganomics, Economist & Acclaimed Author – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist, a columnist and recent author of “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics…
Bee-Killing Pesticides May Get New Restrictions From the EPA
The bees are dying and we need to ban neonicotinoid pesticides before they kill them all, taking away a third of the crops we rely on for food with them. The European Union announced a two-year ban in 2013, so why doesn’t the United States? While it’s not an outright prohibition, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it’s accepting public comments on a proposed label change that would create
EPA says first day of oil spill spent 'planning'
On the afternoon of the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years, graduate student Natalie Phares quickly organized a volunteer bucket brigade to clean a beach north of Santa Barbara. When she …
Canadian miner TMAC Resources plans IPO on TSX
[Reuters] – TMAC Resources, which is currently developing the Hope Bay gold project in Canada’s far north, has begun paperwork on an initial public offering and plans to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange soon, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The offering would be the first pure IPO on the TSX in over a year, as the pullback in metal prices has sharply dented investor confidence
Chevron pays reported $5M to family of Pennsylvania well fire victim
By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Chevron Corp. has paid a reported $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year by the parents of a worker who was burnt to death in a gas well fire in western Pennsylvania. Local media reported the $5 million settlement, saying it had been approved by a judge in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh earlier this month. John Gismondi,