Feb 16, 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California lawmaker introduced a bill on Thursday that would delay implementation of a ballot measure that marked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first foray into state politics before running for governor.

Sen. Tom Torlakson's bill would delay California's Proposition 49 from taking effect.

With Schwarzenegger promoting the initiat...

Feb 16, 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Washington state's Senate has given a major boost to Gov. Christine Gregoire's plan to put aside $905 million in state revenues with a proposal for placing even more money in reserve, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The Democratic-controlled chamber endorsed on Wednesday a supplemental budget plan for the state's current two-year budget ...

The world has always been a dangerous place. From the black plague to avian flu, Attila the Hun to Osama bin-Laden, Mount Vesuvius to the Indian Ocean tsunami--and let's not even mention biological or nuclear warfare--people and cultures are eternally prone to natural disaster, social upheaval and just plain killing each other.

Once the fields of Europe, now filled with prospering econom...

A reporter from Louisville, Ky., asked me if I had ever had a flirting embarrassment, a time when I had fallen face-first in an attempt to flirt.

I laughed at the ridiculous idea. "No ma'am," I replied with great confidence. "I always flirt with success."

Now, that is an example of when I flat-out failed at flirtation. It is nothing to "Bragg" about.

You probably know of Ric...

TORONTO -- The question of whether to make Ontario the first jurisdiction in Canada to allow hospitals to harvest organs from dying patients who don't register an objection is proving a weighty one for the province's elected officials.

New Democrat member Peter Kormos introduced a private member's bill yesterday that would presume consent for organ donations from any dying patient who ...

HAWAII teachers lit up like young Einsteins yesterday when remotely operated underwater vehicles they had built over the last two days zoomed around the muddy waters of Waikalua Loko fishpond on Kaneohe Bay.

Fifteen teachers built the devices in a workshop with visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant researchers. Their ultimate goal, of course, is to get their students as...

POLICE are investigating the death of a 33-year-old man who fell from a building at the Ortigas Business District in Pasig City on Friday morning.

Lester Cauilan, 33, an employee of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), was already dead when a security guard of the Development Academy of the Philippines found his body outside the DAP building on San Miguel Avenue.

Police said a...

The Hempstead Zoning Board of Appeals meets on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Nathan Bennett Pavilion, One Washington St., Hempstead.

Sewanhaka Central High School Board of Education has a budget hearing planned for Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at the Central Administrative Offices, 77 Landau Ave., Floral Park.

Elmont School District Board of Education meets on Tuesday, ...

Six months of 'intense conversations' lead PB Day, Academy boards to green-light plan involving no financial transactions.

Palm Beach Day School and the Academy of the Palm Beaches have agreed to a merger, effective Sept. 1.

The Day School board voted in favor of the change Wednesday evening. The Academy board approved it Thursday morning.

The decision was reached after six ...

erbert C. Scott had been accepted by the U.S. Naval Academy when Willard Bailey, then the football coach at Richmond's Virginia Union University, came to visit him in his Virginia Beach home in 1971.

"I went down and talked with him," Bailey told a reporter years later. "I sort of changed his mind."

The persuasive Bailey talked Scott into coming to VUU, a historically back universi...