On one of his frequent visits to New Orleans, federal recovery coordinator Douglas O'Dell delivered a bruising critique of the Nagin administration on Thursday, saying "there is growing frustration" in Washington with the speed, efficiency and competence of City Hall's efforts to manage the local recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
WASHINGTON -- Louisiana's delegates to the Democratic National Convention are giving high marks to Barack Obama's choice of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate.
Jordan Monk may not record a tackle or reception, nor see action on special teams for N.C. State this fall. There’s a chance he might not even dress up for home games, a cruel reminder Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger desperately sought to remedy during his publicized Notre Dame career.
At Misquamicut State Beach in Rhode Island, the beach towels are six deep. Umbrellas snake and poke at one another, like something out of Seurat. The tide rises adamantly, forcing the prone bodies to inch swiftly toward the whiskery sea grass on the dunes before the bracing Atlantic soaks their toes.
Ronnie Spector doesn't mind dishing about the time her mother ran Frankie Lymon out of their house, or briefly dating John Lennon. But the 1960s icon will not address questions about perhaps the most famous facet of her personal life, her eccentric ex-husband and record producer, Phil Spector, recently-acquited of the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
Collegiate graduate Russell Wilson will start at quarterback for N.C. State at South Carolina on Thursday, Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien said yesterday. Wilson, a redshirt freshman, will be just the third Wolfpack QB since 1971 to start as a freshman in his first college game. "As I've said from the beginning, the decision would be made on who we feel gives us the best opportunity to win the
In the morning, at the start of a week of magnificent hope, of thrilling anticipation, of great new history, here was Wendell Foster, a pastor and a politician from the Bronx, N.Y., talking over coffee about the convention.
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