Every couple of months or so, I hustle the family into the SUV and head out of town for a weekend getaway. I sell it to my wife and daughters as equal parts entertainment and education; edutainment if you will. For me, the weekend jaunts are ...

With its vintage neon sign advertising "Heated Pool," the Rummel Motel in the early 1980s was the sort of place budget travelers would bunk down while they tried their luck at the slots in the nearby Las Vegas Strip. It also was home to a young ...

... July 8, 1989, he married Beth Van Hooren in Newport. He was a longtime employee of Henderson’s Furniture, owned and operated Donelson’s Appliance Repair Shop for 15 years, and spent seven years working for Chinook Winds Casino. He was a ...

Prairie with Rauelsson and John Vecchiarelli, 9 p.m. Nov. 28, The Woods, Portland. Admission: $5. Information: www.brownpapertickets.com . Blind Pilot, 8 p.m. Dec. 4-5, Wonder Ballroom, Portland. Admission: $13. TicketMaster. “Sounds of the Season ...

Peninsula Business College Alumni Association. 7-8 p.m. today, West Hampton Community Center, 1638 Briarfield Road. Information: Dot Barnes, 245-6594; Pat Gross, 722-2117 or Ella Robinson, 826-1815. Gray's Temple Holy Church of Deliverance Eight Days ...

WARWICK –– Perhaps he should have attended his English class. A local 17-year-old boy skipped school on Thursday to rob a bank –– but the police said his misspelled note to the teller led to his arrest that afternoon. Capt. Sean Collins said ...

A clerk at a New Jersey market accidentally sold a customer the wrong lottery ticket. But nobody is complaining ... A cow in Spartanburg, SC, apparently thought a green pool cover was a field of grass, went for a snack, and fell through.

Unemployed mechanic Les, 59, of Caerleon, near Newport, South Wales, scooped £45,570,835.50 in the November 6 draw, making him the UK's biggest ever lottery winner. The £91 million jackpot was split with a syndicate of seven office workers based in ...