Mike Thompson

SHS Senior Heads To SC-Aiken

PENN LAIRD - J.J. Loker had a good idea about what he was looking for in a college baseball program. The Spotswood High School senior found it all at South Carolina-Aiken, accepting a scholarship offer from the Division II...

FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: Child hunger in America

Apparently the news story got lost somewhere between coverage of “Dancing with the Stars” and the latest celebrity story about Jessica Simpson’s most recent night on the town. The news story in question was about a new...

Gay-rights activists call for LDS help

Gay-rights activists again called on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to support a body of proposed legislation aimed at securing rights for gay couples Monday. So far, however, the church has not responded,...

Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson Choose Horror for Their Next Genre

Two scribes are following up their Jennifer Aniston film with a little bit of horror. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson will produce their new screenplay, Choose. Robert Legato, an...

Traveling Duo Choose Their Next Film

Brandon Camp, director of the forthcoming Jennifer Aniston/Aaron Eckhart romantic drama Traveling, has chosen his next project: Choose. A thriller about a journalism grad student (Katheryn Winnick) hunting down a serial killer...

Nearly a million buytolet properties are standing empty

The credit crisis is set to take the number of vacant properties in the UK past one million next year and tax incentives for renovation work are needed to spark a change in thinking. Whatever the reason, the Empty Homes Agency...

WABCO Directors Approve Cash Dividend

BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. (http://www.wabco-auto.com/) announced today that on November 10, 2008 its board of directors approved a cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common...

FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: Free-trade fanaticism

It was one of those paragraphs that you read online and then immediately feel like punting your computer across the room. According to a Monday New York Times story about President George W. Bush’s White House meeting with...

This week's Your Mike winner!

This week's winner in the "Your Mike" caption contest is Ron Cichoski of Troy. There were nearly 250 entries. On Monday, go online to FreepOpinion.com for the next rough cartoon sketch by Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike...

Big Country Sports 11.14.08

Area boys hoops set to get under way rene@reporternews.com Thursday, November 13, 2008 With the 2008-09 boys basketball season set to begin next week, it's time to take a look at what the upcoming season may offer. As with the...

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