Homes evacuated following landslide in Maggie Valley - Asheville Citizen-Times

MAGGIE VALLEY – Haywood County emergency crews evacuated several homes overnight following a landslide on Wildcat Run, off of U.S. 19, in Maggie Valley, according to a dispatcher at the Haywood County Sheriff's Office. Details about the landslide ...

Florida congressman Cliff Stearns asks Nancy Pelosi for football break - Yahoo News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so. Stearns, a Republican from Ocala, wrote to U.S. House ...

Bountiful polygamist arrested - Toronto Sun

VANCOUVER — Two top leaders of the controversial polygamous sect in Bountiful, B.C., have been arrested and charged with practising polygamy. B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal confirmed that Winston Blackmore and James Oler were arrested Wednesday ...

Marist breezes to victory over Iona - Poughkeepsie Journal

The Marist College women's basketball team scored Tuesday's first dozen points and never looked back, beating the visitors from Iona, 81-58, at the James J. McCann Recreation Center. Marist's junior forward, Rachele Fitz, led all scorers with 25 ...

Obama and Bush meet former presidents at White House - Boston Globe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, joined all the living U.S. presidents on Wednesday for a historic meeting at the White House two weeks before the country's next transfer of power. Bush, a Republican ...