30th OHS Show Choir Classic honors Gulsvig
Paul Gulsvig is a busy man. He recently left his home and won’t return until April, traveling across the United States to help high school show choirs perfect their craft.
Paul Gulsvig is a busy man. He recently left his home and won’t return until April, traveling across the United States to help high school show choirs perfect their craft.
No one’s walking into an extreme-sports spy movie for the plot or characterization — neither of which this film pretends to care about for very long — but not even the grotesquely over-edited action sequences bother to hold up their end of the bargain. In other words, if you were willing to endure listening to Vin Diesel speak in order to watch Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa perform electrifying feats of martial arts, dial down your expectations. Director D.J. Caruso (“The Disappointments Room”) shreds... Читать дальше...
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is hoping the high quality of competition in Europe will keep players from leaving for the financial gain in China.
The prospects for accommodation between Donald Trump and China might seem bleak. But there is one reason for optimism: despite all the bluster, both sides have far more to lose than they are letting on.
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Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Researchers from Northwestern University are using a new method to non-invasively stimulate the brain to improve a certain type of memory.
At a time when plenty of eyes had been watching the Twitter page of Colts owner Jim Irsay to see if he’ll say anything about the status of G.M. Ryan Grigson and/or coach Chuck Pagano, Irsay threw everyone a curve ball by disclosing that quarterback Andrew Luck had shoulder surgery. There’s no requirement that the…
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ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has made it clear he’s opposed to state funding for stadiums, yet a revised proposal for a $200 million soccer stadium in St. Louis calls for the state to contribute land that’s potentially worth millions of dollars. Meanwhile, a city aldermanic committee delayed a vote Thursday to advance
Shares of American Express Co. rose slightly late Thursday after the credit card company reported fourth-quarter earnings below expectations but quarterly sales slightly above forecasts. American Express said it earned $825 million, or 88 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with $899 million, or 89 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose to $8 billion, down from $8.4 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 98 cents a share on sales of $7.9 billion. Читать дальше...
Hours after President Donald Trump's inauguration, hundreds of protesters hit the streets in Seattle decrying the freshly minted administration as racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-immigrant.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has trained more than 5,000 police officers on how to handle mental health crisis calls but doesn't have a way to dispatch those officers when the calls come in, according to a report published Thursday. The four-day training program for officers, which began in the summer of 2015, was built off a nationally recognized instructional model, called Crisis Intervention Training, that uses patients, professionals and police officials to train officers on how to recognize signs of mental illness... Читать дальше...
Admirals start off three-day trip to Italy in fine fashion by turning up the pressure on overmatched Saints.
A major street in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood remained closed for a second day Thursday as city workers dangling from ropes rappelled down an eroding cliffside, clearing out rocks that could break loose in series of storms forecast to slam the Bay Area through the weekend. O’Shaughnessy Boulevard in the Diamond Heights neighborhood is expected to stay closed from Del Vale Avenue to Malta Drive until the evening commute Friday, said Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Works. Читать дальше...
Miguel Ferrer, who had played Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2012 and co-starred with Jill Hennessy on CBS’ Crossing Jordan, died today of cancer. He was 61. Ferrer launched his career in the early 1980s with small guest shots on such series as Magnum, P.I., CHiPS and Cagney & Lacey and features including Heartbreaker, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Star Trek: III: The Search for Spock. We would go on to focus mostly on TV throughout that decade before landing the…
Читать дальше...HONOLULU — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement Thursday with the company responsible for a 1,400-ton molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor in 2013. The federal agency said in a statement that Matson Terminals Inc. will pay a civil penalty of $725,000. The molasses leaked from a section of pipe that had been flagged
TNT to use unorthodox format for five doubleheaders later this season
The Holmen Village Board proved it had the timing right when refinancing its 2009 bond debt.
The Taste of Onalaska, a major fundraiser sponsored by the Onalaska Education Foundation, is a delicious and fun way to support Onalaska’s public and private school teachers, students and special projects and programs.
Holmen High School’s robotics team has been challenged to combine state-of-the-art programming with an old-time machine power concept.
A fire at the Allied Co-op General Store in Mindoro two weeks ago has left the community of 386 without local access to food, fuel and vehicle repair.
Choice won’t be on the ballot for most Coulee Region races, as many local government seats go uncontested this April.
There are changes coming to the Neshonoc hydroelectric dam in West Salem.
Construction of the West Salem School District’s Swarthout Pool is well underway this winter as contractors from Brickl Brothers and Sebesta Pools work to complete the project before swimming season this spring.