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Attorney Dyer wins seat on Howard school board

An attorney from Ellicott City was among the winners after the final votes were counted yesterday in Howard County's school board race. Allen Dyer, who ran unsuccessfully for the board in 2006, received 54,148 votes to capture...

New On DVD: 'Kung Fu Panda,' 'Hellboy II'

Also New: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Tim Lammers, Web Staff Editor 'Kung Fu Panda" (PG): If you're looking for a unique family comedy, then you'll kick out of "Kung Fu Panda," a hilarious animated romp that combines martial...

Tarnation! Experts Agree Internet Like 'Wild West' Since at Least 1994

Writing on The Big Money yesterday, Lesley M.M. Blume took a look at Condé Nast's Web layoffs and asked: What is behind Condé Nast's bellicose approach to the Web? Other traditional media outlets properly regard the Internet as...

Project X By The Book

I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction...

ScoreKeeper Tells You About The Awesome New INDIANA JONES Quadrilogy Score CD Boxed Set (Includes...

Greetings! And that’s not all… Nestled along side of it in all its majestic golden glory lies the Ark of the Covenant. On Tuesday, November 11th, 2008, a group known as Concord Records led by chief archeologist Laurent...

Co-op benefits from customers' ‘flight to safety’

Nov 14 2008 by Aled Blake, Western Mail THE corporate banking division of the Co-operative Bank yesterday said it had enjoyed a record half-year – unlike its high street rivals which suffered the effects of the credit crunch....

We will not pay over the odds, says Mark Hughes

Having been reassured that he has the unequivocal backing of Sheikh Mansour, the billionaire owner of Manchester City, there was a certain irony to Mark Hughes saying yesterday that the club would not be held to ransom when the...

Every Conneaut dept. told to slash budget

By MARK TODD - Staff Writer - mtodd@starbeacon.com Star Beacon CONNEAUT — Even if every municipal department lops 15 percent from its budget, the city will still face a $580,000 shortfall by the end of 2009, City Council...

Weekend Picks for November 14, 2008

From staff reports The Daily News Published November 14, 2008 Dance performance at Mall of Mainland — The Preludes, an audition-only troupe of dancers from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts will perform at 1 p.m. Saturday at the...

'Farms' no longer, owners fear flood of back taxes

Story Published: Nov 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM PST Story Updated: Nov 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM PST OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Hundreds of property owners in our state are afraid they'll lose their land because their properties, long considered to...