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The last Indianapolis 500 the group made it to was 1987 – the family’s 10th in a row, a sun-splashed afternoon that went dark in an instant. Al Unser won his fourth that day, but Karen never saw the finish. Neither did Lyle. He left the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a helicopter, the city in a body bag. |
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Slain Baltimore County Officer Amy Caprio: 5 Things To Know Officer Amy Caprio was the first woman to die in the line of duty while serving in the Baltimore County Police Department.
PERRY HALL, MD — Baltimore County Police Officer First Class Amy Caprio was killed Monday while responding to a.... |
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First, the bad news. All three of the insurgent congressional candidates who faced runoff elections in Texas on Tuesday were defeated. Elections are what organizers call a “structure test”—a non-fudgeable way of assessing the strength of a campaign or candidate within a determined structure. |
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One person carrying on the tradition is Nick Walker, 38, from The Street in Geldeston, who will be talking about the skill for a special Norfolk Day event on Friday, July 27. The master thatcher will be at the Thatching Open Day, hosted by the Churches Conservation Trust, at the Church of St John Maddermarket on Pottergate, Norwich, from 10am-4pm. |
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Emma Brockes on Goodbye, Columbus (1959) I fell in love with Neil Klugman, forerunner to Portnoy and hero of Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth’s first novel, in my early 20s – 40 years after the novel was written. Descriptions of Roth’s writing often err towards violence; he is savagely funny, bitingly honest, filled with rage and thwarted desire. |
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Film. The 15th annual edition of the Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa sees the event move to a new location, Arts Court, where it will present five recent Israeli films with English subtitles, on selected Thursdays and Sundays between May 24 and June 10. Among them are the dramas The Cakemaker (Thursday, May 24, 7 p. |
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Seven Catholic bishops from Taiwan were in the Vatican from May 8 to May 14 as part of their first ad limina visit during the pontificate of Pope Francis, whom they met on the final day. It was a religious visit conveying a distinctly political message in tense times. |
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Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) have run into an invisible, but powerful hurdle — a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or the result of evil spirits. Some people are refusing medical care and turn instead to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat, they said. |
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Editor's note: The current controversy between the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Senate has continued to generate mixed reactions among Nigerians. In an article sent to NAIJ.com , an Abuja based social commentator, Bernard Balogun (BenPino), writes about the composition of the.... |
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Monday marked seven years since former Family Radio President Harold Camping's much publicized prediction that May 21, 2011, would be the start of the Rapture failed to materialize. Although Jesus is recorded as saying that no one " knows the day nor the hour " of the end of the world, that has not.... |
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“This is what they handed to me,” whispered Gina Duran, angry tears dribbling down her cheek. The mourning mother held the chalky items up into the light. Her voice cracked. “They handed me my daughter in a freaking paper bag.” Alexa Duran, 18, was one of six people crushed to death on March 15 when.... |
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