Tea Party groups come to town to lobby against health-care reform
By Amy Gardner Tea party organizers came to Capitol Hill Tuesday night to kick off a weeklong campaign they"re calling "Take the Town Halls to Washington," an effort to block Democrats" latest push for health reform. It"s not clear how many protestors will actually travel to Washington for the campaign, which is being organized by the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition and Tea Party Nation.
Courteney Cox says UK viewers shouldn"t be "embarrassed" to watch her new show Cougar Town. The former Friends star"s series will air on Living at the end of March and she said people shouldn"t be put off by the title, which refers to older women who like younger men. The actress laughed: "I think guys don"t like the saying Cougar Town, but once they get past that they"re digging it!
On-loan Ipswich striker Daryl Murphy has thanked manager Roy Keane for playing him up front. The 26-year-old Republic of Ireland international, on loan from Sunderland, has scored five goals from eight games since teaming up once again with Keane. Murphy scored twice against Cardiff in the 2-0 win on Tuesday. He told BBC Suffolk: "He saw that I was a striker and not a left midfielder and I just want to repay him by scoring as many as I can.
YEOVIL Town manager Terry Skiverton has ruled out any prospect of him playing between now and the end of the season. Skiverton, who last year went from being team captain to manager at Huish Park, has told the clubвs official matchday magazine, The Glovers, that he would not be able to get fit in time. вThere is no chance of me playing this season,в he said.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal. In a filing late Monday, four property owners and the borough of Centralia asked a state appeals court to block Pennsylvania officials from seizing their homes.
Jules ( ) and Grayson ( ), the will-they-or-won"t-they couple of , may be taking a step toward an actual romantic relationship in the coming episodes, but the waiting game has been fun, according to Hopkins. Even if they get together, there"s plenty of drama to be had with the introduction of to the cast and Bobby ( ) turning into quite the stand-up guy.
JOS, Nigeria Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead. Nerves remained on edge, despite a long-standing dusk-til-dawn curfew in Jos, the capital of Plateau state.
VAIL, Colorado From clearing up some of the mysterious acronyms used within the town of Vail to showing the community what the various town departments do, the Vail community meeting Tuesday night was all about transparency. The town couldn"t show the community everything at the two-hour event, but it tried to give the packed house at Donovan Pavilion a quick overview of the town"s most pressing issues.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Centralians have long believed the government"s demolition of their beloved town in the 1980s was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars and not, as state and federal officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.