Matthew Arnold was a British poet and essayist and worked as a school inspector. He was 66 years old when he died in 1888. He said in 1883: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued the following safety tips (abbreviated) while ...

Area families are getting into the holiday spirit by acting together in the Ankeny Community Theatre production of "A Christmas Carol." Production director Barbara Wagner said the organization's play selection committee chose this adaptation because ...

COUNCILLORS have been warned the Potteries could lose an historic landmark unless it can be transformed into a new visitor attraction. Regeneration experts have revealed that the Old Town Hall, Burslem, may have to be sold to repay the £2.1 million ...

COUNCIL chiefs are poised to give away an historic theatre building as part of a major £8 million facelift scheme. Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to plough £2.15 million into improving the Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre, in Hanley, by 2010 ...

CHAMPAIGN — Illinois sophomore Mike Tisdale hasn’t let the MVP award from the South Padre Island Invitational change his approach. Illini players didn’t leave the Ubben Basketball Complex until 3:30 a.m. Sunday following their return from Texas ...

But "I always thought they had something up their sleeve," the northwest Dallas man said Sunday, referring to his tenant. On Saturday night, police stormed his 130 acres of pasture and found a wild scene: dead roosters, a bloody pit, gambling books ...

Robert Womack said he had no idea that a cockfighting ring was operating on property he owns in the Rylie area of southeast Dallas. KYE R. LEE/DMN The owner of the property off St. Augustine Road in Rylie said he'd thought the tenant, whose name he ...

The insult inscribed at the foot of a life-sized statue of Sir Barnes Wallis, who designed the bouncing bomb, caused immediate offence last week when it was unveiled in Herne Bay, Kent, where he tested the top-secret Second World War weapon. The ...

Although it can be risky to definitively pronounce a bill dead -- lawmakers have a number of procedural tricks they can use to resuscitate seemingly lifeless proposals -- here's a tentative list of some of this year's likely casualties in the Senate ...

Additional charges have been filed against a seventh-grade Salamanca science teacher now accused of sodomizing at least three boys since 2002 and showing pornographic materials to several others. Michael J. DuPont, 42, of Kent Boulevard, Salamanca ...