The owner of an Australian funeral home says she was forced to keep a dead body in her car overnight with the air conditioning turned on because the morgue wouldn’t accept the corpse, according to the North West Telegraph. Joanne Cummings, co-owner of Pilbara Funeral Services, told the Australian newspaper she burned through three tanks of […]
Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities Saturday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province. The capture of the two towns — Qaim on the Syrian border Friday and Rawah along the Euphrates River on Saturday— dealt another blow […]
BY STEPHANIE DOLCE It’s that time of year again when I am reminded that, “”In every girl’s life, there’s a boy she’ll never forget & a summer when it all began.” Love may start in Spring, but it evolves in Summer. For me, I can remember way back when to the first summer love I […]
Offense Struggles but Trivia Question Is Born BY JOE RINI Whether it’s because of the increasing beach traffic, graduation parties, or perhaps the approaching summer solstice, the bats of the New York Mets have cooled as the temperatures have heated for the second June in a row. Since moving to within a game of .500 […]
Washington (CNN) — Seeking a middle ground between calls for tough military action and none at all, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was sending up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help the embattled government hold off a lightning advance from the north by Sunni militants. Obama told White House reporters the goal was to prevent […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Next month, South Nyack residents will have their chance to see, and to comment on, suggestions for the development of the Exit 10 Interchange, including the new shared use path. After the March 20 meeting, where residents blasted project officials, and called the state’s plans for the SUP landing “insensitive and destructive […]