Last updated March 5, 2011 9:56 a.m. PT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KENNEWICK, Wash. -- American Cowboy magazine has picked Kennewick as one of the best places to live in the West. Kennewick is one of 20 communities listed in the current issue of the magazine as having qualities of life that exemplify the best in the West. Magazine editor Philip Armour says they chose places they had heard are wonderful or locations the staff had traveled to themselves. The staff was looking for communities Read more [...]

The piece counted some groups and living leaders who are supporting Hogan-Rowles as Parks' supporters, including Ridley-Thomas and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. It also listed Ethel Bradley, the widow of the former Mayor Tom Bradley who died in 2008, as an honorary co-chair of Parks' campaign. "This is a new low. It is trickery -- worse than that, it is incompetence. It creates a level of cynicism in the political process that many of us have fought long to oppose," Ridley-Thomas Read more [...]

King Diamond wins the Listed Roy Higgins Quality from VersperWith the Flemington track upgraded to a Good 3, race favourite King Diamond has won the 2011 Listed Roy Higgins Quality over 2600m at Flemington on Australian Guineas Day. Kind Diamond jumped nicely from the outside before taking up position towards the back of the thirteen horse field. Muir took the lead past the post for the first time, before Pass Me By surged forward around the back of the Flemington track. Second favourite Vesper, Read more [...]