Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has demanded documents from three major drug makers in connection with allegations the companies paid bribes to secure lucrative contracts in Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power, the companies said. -AP (more…)
Many South Carolina Republicans got a bogus holiday greeting card this week, purported to be from White House hopeful Mitt Romney, that cites some controversial passages of the Book of Mormon. (more…)
Reuters: ‘From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to ‘walk the pain off,’ the world was full of weird news in 2007.’
With days to go until Iowa starts election season, here’s a primer on caucuses from two unlikely sources. What is a caucus? And what does it mean?
Messages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year’s Eve revelers in Times Square when the confetti is dropped. For the first time, anyone can get a message printed on a piece of the multicolored confetti by visiting the Times Square Information Center or by using the Internet to type a message on a “Wishing Wall Online”
Mike Huckabee says John McCain is a hero. McCain says Huckabee is a good man. And they both seem to agree on this: Mitt Romney is neither. (more…)
S-T News Report: “Richton Park assistant village manager Gregg Spathis is heading to Bourbonnais … ‘I kind of sympathize with Richton Park’s loss’, Bourbonnais Mayor Bob Latham said Friday.”
Three people died in a blaze that destroyed an apartment building in suburban Chicago, and authorities said Sunday they were investigating the fire as a possible case of arson. (more…)
Visitation for Arthur D. Childs Jr., 61, of Momence, will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at the Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home, Bourbonnais, where funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday.
