KAILUA, Hawaii President-elect Barack Obama began his last full day of his Hawaiian vacation Wednesday with his standard workout at a Marine base and greetings to military servicemen and women and their families. More than 75 people showed up at

Burris goes to court to push appointment through - Buffalo News
U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris has asked a court to force Secretary of State Jesse White to certify his appointment to President-elect Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. An attorney for Burris says paperwork was filed Wednesday with the Illinois

John Daly ’suspended from PGA for six months’ - Sydney Morning Herald
Is it fair that I got suspended? It’s not fair in reality, but it’s probably fair in perception In this file photo, provided by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, professional golfer John Daly is shown. Daly was taken into custody October 26, 2008

So will President Obama be able to hack it? - Times Online
Don’t turn to political pundits to predict what kind of president Barack Obama will be. Better clues can be found in his golf swing. So what do photographs of Mr Obama playing golf in Hawaii tell us as his presidency tees off? A lot actually. First

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EDEN, Md. Police say two Maryland teens lit a boy’s hair on fire and recorded the attack on a camera phone. The Wicomico (wigh-CAHM’-ih-coh) County Sheriff’s Office says the victim was sleeping early Sunday at a home in Eden in eastern Maryland when 17-year-old Forrest Wilson poured lighter

Russia starts countdown to Ukraine gas cut-off - Forbes
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia’s Gazprom gas export monopoly said Wednesday its engineers were starting preparations for a Jan. 1 cut-off of gas to Ukraine that could have a knock-on effect on supplies to Europe. Russia has said it will turn off the taps to Ukraine unless a new contract on gas

6 degrees of Bernard Madoff: Actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick among fraud victims - Newsday
NEW YORK (AP) Call it six degrees of Bernard Madoff . Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager. Bacon’s publicist, Allen Eichhorn, confirmed Tuesday that the couple had investments with Madoff. He wouldn

ISLAMABAD: Relations between India and Pakistan, which appeared to be on course towards normalisation after return of civilian rule in Islamabad almost touched a nadir at the year end in the aftermath of Pakistani militants carrying out a carnage in Mumbai. The terror attacks cast a long shadow over

Israel rebuffs Gaza truce call and mobilises more troops - International Herald Tribune
Israel on Wednesday said the time was not right for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and stepped up preparations for a possible ground offensive after Hamas’s long-range rockets hit another major population centre. “If conditions will ripen and we think there will be a diplomatic solution that will

Senate looks to block Blagojevich’s seat pick - Courier-Post
WASHINGTON The Senate is dusting off a parliamentary rule book that hasn’t been used in 60 years to prevent Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from having a say in Barack Obama’s replacement. “Anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich cannot be an effective representative of the people of Illinois

Police: Teens set boy’s hair on fire, made video - International Herald Tribune
EDEN, Maryland : Police say two teenagers lit a boy’s hair on fire and recorded the attack on a camera phone. The Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office says the victim was sleeping early Sunday at a home in eastern Maryland when 17-year-old Forrest Wilson poured lighter fluid on his hair and set it

Back on top: Tiger Woods is set to make his return to golf after time out for surgery Photo: AP 1. Tiger’s comeback . Already there are rustlings in the undergrowth, but the smart money is on Tiger to come back at the CA Championship at Doral in

European Tour Members dominate Official World Golf Ranking - PGA European Tour
The potent combination of world-class performances led by Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington, Robert Karlsson and Lee Westwood and the lure of the inaugural Race to Dubai sees The European Tour s current Membership ring in the New Year as

Creeks Golf Course to get RV park - Northwest Arkansas News
Daily Record photograph by Sarah Nader A 60-site RV park is being constructed one mile south of downtown Cave Springs on Arkansas Highway 112. Plans are to have the RV park open by mid-March. CAVE SPRINGS - One thing Cave Springs boasts is that

An apparent dispute between two Niagara Thruway drivers led to a strange crime late Monday night when one motorist threw three golf balls at the other vehicle, state police said. Troopers say that Douglas E. Lange, 50, of Nagel Drive, Cheektowaga

Golf: 10 things to watch out for in 2009 - Daily Telegraph
Back on top: Tiger Woods is set to make his return to golf after time out for surgery Photo: AP 1. Tiger’s comeback . Already there are rustlings in the undergrowth, but the smart money is on Tiger to come back at the CA Championship at Doral in

Charges in Ark. beer theft crash - Cincinnati.com
FLORENCE — A Florence man faces charges for using a golf cart to crash through a storefront in Arkansas to steal several cases of beer. Police in Hot Springs, Ark., arrested 24-year-old Alejandro Cortez-Sanchez of Florence, after he allegedly

India shares post worst yearly fall, outlook muddy - CNBC
By Sumeet Chatterjee MUMBAI, Dec 31 (Reuters) - India’s main stock index slumped by more than half in 2008, its worst annual performance ever, and the outlook for the new year was muddled by uncertainties with corporate earnings set to slow sharply

Last week on my blog , I noted that the UAW owns and operates Black Lake Golf Course a championship caliber course opened in 2000 that s part of a larger family education center and retreat nestled in 1,000 acres of property in

Bush plays better golf than Obama! - MSN India
Washington: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama may be preparing to take over at the White House from outgoing George W Bush, but there is no question that the latter is a much better golfer than Obama. Footage of Obama on the driving range during a

TAXPAYERS TAKING HIT AMID AUTO UNION’S MIS-FORE!-TUNE - New York Post
NERO fiddled while Rome burned. The UAW golfed. While carmak ers soak up $17 billion in taxpayer bail out funds and demand more for their ailing industry, United Auto Workers bosses have wasted tens of millions of their workers’ dues on gold-plated

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