The 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers who became the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest said Wednesday that she “shed joyful tears” at the summit after a grueling climb across difficult terrain and personal fear. Nepal requires climbers to be at least 16 years old to scale its peaks, but Malavath Poorna said she […]
FROM RPD An armed robbery at 1:45 a.m. today [Wednesday, June 4] at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge has shocked the neighborhood. The police received a report of the robbery and came to the location behind Friendly’s Restaurant off Airmont Road and discovered one female employee at the location bound at the wrist and on […]
BY STEPHANIE DOLCE If you look up the word, “wooing” in the dictionary, the definition is quite direct and simple: “try to gain the love of (someone, typically a woman), especially with a view to marriage. Synonyms: court, pursue, chase.” Even with that direct and simple definition, some men are still confused between flirting and […]
O&R and IBEW Local 503 Tuesday evening reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. The current contract is extended to permit normal business operations to continue while the union conducts its ratification vote. The current contract has been in effect since June 1, 2009. O&R has 1,100 employees, 607 of whom are represented by […]
INDIANAPOLIS – Larry Bird came up with Indiana’s championship blueprint. He still believes it can work even after a second straight discouraging playoff exit in the Eastern Conference finals to Miami amid cries for change. The old-school Bird contends now is the time to stay the course. “We’ve got a young team and we’d like […]
By Gary Langer Barack Obama’s approval rating on handling international affairs has dropped under water for the first time in his presidency in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, a further challenge as he seeks to regain his footing in his second term. The shift is a blow particularly since it directly follows an attempt by […]