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The harness racing spotlight will shine on Tasmania next month with the V75 Tasmanian Harness Carnival likely to boast the best fields ever assembled in the feature races to be run on all three tracks on the Apple Isle. The carnival will comprise ...

Who is Tasmania's top sports icon? Many of Tasmania's famous sporting identities have had a great association with racing and in particular harness racing. So what better way for harness racing to revisit that association than by putting to a vote ...

Eugenio Jaime, of Hobart, also works at ArcelorMittal and said the closure added ... Sarah Jackson, of Gary, said she often picks up a friend from her job at the Ameristar Casino. Jackson said she was concerned Friday when she heard about the closure ...

You've heard of the "not in my backyard" movements whenever someone wants to open a landfill or some equally noxious but necessary thing. Lake County officials are now playing "keep it in my backyard please." County commissioners voted Wednesday to ...

Kathy Hutchinson has been clean for six months now -- of nicotine, that is. The 57-year-old Wanatah woman used to be one of this country's 46 million or so smokers, but not any longer. After 36 years of smoking -- averaging two packs of cigarettes a ...

MARTINSBURG - "I Can Cope," a free educational series for people facing cancer and their families, friends and loved ones, will begin today in the sunroom on City Hospital's second floor oncology unit. Informative sessions are held twice each week ...

Pianist Jon Schmidt in concert, presented by Snake River Council of Boy Scouts of America, 7 p.m. at College of Southern Idaho’s Fine Arts Center auditorium. Schmidt has created a hybrid of music with equal parts classical, contemporary and rock ...

But something happened along the road to wishes and dreams fulfilled. For Trace, it took over a decade of toil before he would be allowed to call himself a professional, working writer. Along the way, he held down stints as a bar manager in San ...