Monthly Archives: May 2013

Memorial Day events listed

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All city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, state and federal offices and courts will be closed Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. Banks and liquor stores also will be closed. There will be no regular mail delivery or collection, but express mail will be delivered. Garbage collection well be pushed back one day all week, with Friday's regular collection being made on Saturday. Port Authority will operate holiday service. Its Downtown service center will be closed, but its customer service line Read more [...]

Meet of Champions: Ibrahim, Polk lead pack at NCS finals

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Facts Top Empire state contenders NCS MEET OF CHAMPIONSAt Edwards Stadium, UC BerkeleyONLINE: Live webcast of the meet at www.livestream.com/ncschampionshipsSTARTING TIMESTodayField event finals — 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Track event trials — 1 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.SaturdayField event finals — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.Track event finals — 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.DESCRIPTION OF TERMSThe first number listed is the athlete’s seed based on last Saturday’s NCS regional performance.Listed is top seed, Read more [...]

Southside church duped by accused con man, sold in forced sale

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A bad business deal between an evangelical pastor and an accused con man has cost the church’s congregation its church, school and daycare. On Friday, a judge ordered the final sale of the Victory Christian Center at 11520 Ellerslie Road. The congregation will have to be out by the end of July. The details of the sale, including the buyer, have been sealed pending closure of the deal — but court documents show the church and surrounding lands had an appraised value of between $6.6 Read more [...]

A-Rod Sells Home For $30 million

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A-Rod Sells Home For $30 million Alex Rodriguez is a bit richer today. The New York Yankees third baseman closed on the sale of his Miami Beach home on Friday morning, ESPN.com has learned. The confirmed sale price of $30 million is one of the highest purchase prices for a home in Miami. [+] Enlarge Rodriguez, who has earned approximately $360 million to date in salary alone, more than any U.S. major sports athlete in history, will make a $15 million profit. In 2010, Rodriguez bought the 54,000-square-foot Read more [...]

Memorial Day events throughout the Capital Region

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Memorial Day is a day when Americans remember the men and women who died serving in the United States Armed Forces. Various celebrations, memorials, and parades will take place throughout Memorial Day weekend, and we've listed many of them below. If we've missed an event, leave us a comment at the bottom of the page including the date, time, and location, and we'll be sure to add it. *Note, these events are subject to change due to weather. ALBANY COUNTY: City of Albany Read more [...]

Transfer listed Trio not part of Alexander’s plans

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Fleetwood Town boss Graham Alexander has made it clear a trio of transfer listed 
players must move away from Highbury for the good of their careers. Striker Steven Gillespie and midfielders Damien Johnson and Danny Rose were put up for sale by the Highbury club yesterday.And Alexander, who is in the midst of a huge summer revamp of the Fleetwood squad, insisted it was in the players’ own interests to move on.“We don’t want to keep people here just because they Read more [...]

WEEKEND: Other area events slated on Peninsula

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Summer won’t officially arrive on the North Olympic Peninsula until June 20, but the three-day Memorial Day weekend gives residents and visitors plenty of reason to start summer unofficially.In addition to two big town festivals — the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts in Port Angeles (see Peninsula Spotlight magazine in this edition) and ShrimpFest in Brinnon (see story on this page) — there are myriad events scheduled between today and Monday.For information about other arts and entertainment Read more [...]

Project: Home — Selling? The best day to list homes – Enterprise

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Click photo to enlargeYou've considered selling your home, but the less-than-steady housing market left you waiting. Now, after a recent story by Yahoo! reported that United States home prices jumped 7 percent during the month of February from a year ago (the largest leap since May 2006), you're all in. You've tidied up the house, cleaned the yards and purged every unnecessary item to make sure the entire package looks better than ever. Now, you're ready to list your home. So, here's the big question: Read more [...]

Russia’s top social media site ‘black listed’ by authorities

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7:03am, Fri 24 May 2013 Last updated Fri 24 May 2013 World Russia Russia's top online social network, VKontakte, has been put on a 'black list' that bans it from distributing content in the country, according to a posting on the communications regulator's web site. VKontakte has 210 million registered users, of whom 47 million log on daily dwarfing Russian Facebook users. Pavel Durov is the founder of vk.com/ Credit: vk.comPavel Durov the social media sites Read more [...]