Lille topple Liverpool in Europa League
English Premier League giants Liverpool slumped to a 1-0 defeat at Lille in the first leg of their last 16 Europa League tie to heap more misery on under-fire coach Rafael Benitez.
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Children’s Fairyland delights young visitors
IT SEEMS LIKE all my favorite haunts are popping up on TV these days. Last week, the Travel Channel ran a series called “101 Tastiest Places to Chow Down,” and No. 4 in the whole country was Fenton’s Creamery in Oakland.
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Regents restore part of salary
LINCOLN — Something had to give. In January 2009, University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor John Rohde, a member of an award-winning research team that designs crash walls for NASCAR racetracks, was facing contract deadlines and a tough travel schedule.
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DEA goes to Cocoa Beach
DEA opened its 2010 Baseball Season with its 2nd annual trip to Cocoa Beach. The Eagles spent five days (with travel) eating, sleeping, and playing baseball at the Cocoa Expo spring training facility. This year’s team faced teams from Canada, Maryland, and Virgina. The Eagles started the day at 7 am in the batting tunnels, breakfast at 8:30, practice at 10:00, lunch at 12:00, practice at 2:00, a …
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Stallman Urges Congress to Ease Cuba Trade Restrictions
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2010 – When it comes to competing for agricultural trade with Cuba, the United States is its own worst enemy. In testimony today before the House Agriculture Committee, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman called on congressional members to support the Travel Reform and Export Enhancement Act , or H.R. 4645, which would lift some key U.S.-imposed …
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