About 169 people have been arrested in a cockfight raid northwest of Fort Worth.
Authorities said sheriff's deputies also seized 114 roosters Saturday near Poolville in north Parker County. Sheriff Larry Fowler said Child Protective Services workers also took custody of 10 to 15 children ages 7 to 15.
Fowler says drugs and cash were seized and dead and injured roosters were found. He says the raid site had been under surveillance for two …
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Paul DeLacey's pragmatic philosophy is that ifyou can't beat 'em, lose.
And go beat someone else.
The chief executive of Prodigy Services Corp. says the onlineservice, once a pioneering giant looming over all competitors, nolonger can take on the big guys: America Online, CompuServe and theMicrosoft Network.Instead, Prodigy will challenge the little guys, regionalInternet service providers across the nation."We're not concerned with bragging rights," DeLacey said."We're concerned with getting back on our feet."Just a year after a Massachusetts technology entrepreneur and aMexican billionaire bought the nation's fourth-largest online …
LONDON (AP) — British Airways will restart flights from London to the Libyan capital Tripoli just over a year after it suspended the service due to violent clashes in the country.
The airline said Monday that flights will fly three times a week from London Heathrow airport to Tripoli from May 1, …
Innkeepers USA Trust filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, outlining a plan that would give one of the extended-stay hotel operator's major creditors substantially all of the equity in the company.
The real estate investment trust listed more than $1 billion in assets and liabilities, according to documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
The company owns 72 hotels in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Under the terms of Innkeepers' proposed reorganization plan, $238 million senior loans held by Lehman ALI Inc., a unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., would be converted to equity.
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CW-30 Cal Ripken is convinced his second stint on the disabledlist this season will last no longer than the required 15 days, buthe admitted offseason surgery might be an option if his ailing backcontinues to be a problem.
The 17-time All-Star received a cortisone shot to alleviate thepain caused by back spasms. He was walking gingerly in the BaltimoreOrioles' clubhouse Thursday afternoon, dressed in street clothes.
"I have every reason to believe the smartest thing is to get theinflammation out of there, continue to do the exercises and then goback and play," he said. "I have every confidence that I'll be readyto step back in after that time is up with a better …
MAX BECKMANN AND OTTO DIX
NEUE GALERIE
War is hell. That truism underscores the first-ever pairing of the entirety of two of the most powerful visual records of World War I: "DerKrieg' (War), 1914, a series of fifty etchings by Otto Dix; and "Die h�lle" (Hell), 1919, eleven lithographs by Max Beckmann. Both artists enthusiastically volunteered to fight in the conflict-Dix serving for four years in the trenches and Beckmann for one year as a medic before being discharged following a nervous breakdown. And both cited-albeit in very different ways-a philosophical underpinning. (Dix referred ironically to Friedrich Nietzsche's dictum "Die and become!" while Beckmann claimed …
Democrats are moving closer to a political victory on children's health insurance with lawmakers citing the struggling economy as another reason to expand government-sponsored coverage.
The Senate is expected to vote later Thursday on legislation that would spend $31.5 billion more over the next 4 1/2 years on the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
The additional money would help add about 4 million uninsured children to the program and admit 2.4 million more kids whose parents would otherwise be buying private insurance.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said on the Senate floor he couldn't think of a higher priority for families than making …
