Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Friday @ Independent. $16/$18 8 p.m. These Bay Area's nut jobs are hitting the Independent tonight. There's just something about them that's magnetic. It's like Neil Diamond, Kurt Weill and Swans made a baby and couldn't ...

Single-sex education is trendy again. I hope that before Ontario schools make the switch, they will gather and examine a lot of evidence -- evidence that goes beyond test scores. There's a real danger that a well-intentioned attempt to improve ...

Monday -- exercise class, 10:30 a.m.; poker, noon; beading class, 12:30 p.m.; hair cuts, 9 a.m.; Tuesday -- exercise class, 10:30 a.m.; poker, noon; craft class, 1 p.m.; bridge class, 1 p.m.; Shadow Mountain Players, 7 p.m.; Wednesday -- cloggers, 9 ...

On the campaign trail, soon-to-be President Barack Obama promised, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get ...

Two other players that are still a threat, although they will need a major tournament victory to jump into first, are Vitaly Lunkin in fourth place (4,337) and Soheil Shamseddin in fifth place (4,085). December could be a busy month for all of these ...

“Most all of us are guilty of playing higher than our bankroll would suggest,” Schneider continued. “I don’t know how deep these guys are, but I can’t imagine that both of them can continue to play for this kind of money for too long ...

But then LSU coach Nick Saban became what he thought he always wanted to become — an NFL head coach. He left for the Miami Dolphins, and all of those linemen with the exception of Ciron Black of Tyler, Texas, went elsewhere. Josh McNeil, the No. 1 ...

Fleming Football will hold a Texas Hold’em poker tournament Saturday, Nov. 28. There will be a Mexican all-you-can-eat dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. at the VFW hall in Fleming. The poker tournament will start at 7 p.m. The entry fee to the event is ...

NEW YORK - Hershey Co. may make a US$17-billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5-billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday. The bid wouldn't be ready for two weeks and the terms ...

Brian Carson begged his son for his life. Jumped and beaten after entering his Elkhorn-area house, Carson pleaded with his son, prosecutors said today. Ryan didn't want to hear it. Enraged at his dad for sleeping with his girlfriend, Ryan Carson ...