You say it’s your birthday. It’s my birthday too, yeah. Fifty is the new 40, which was the new 30, which was the new 25, and so on and so on and so on. A British tourism board has proclaimed 2012 as the “Year of Beatlemania,” justifying it by noting that 1962 was the year [...]
Delicia de abacaxi is a creamy dessert made from pineapples, similar in consistency to key lime pie. The x is pronounced like the c in “delicious.” The desert was served alongside about a dozen other Brazilian foods at Sunday’s Festa Junina event. About 2,500 people bought food and drinks, listened to music and watched performances [...]
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — Flood warnings stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida’s Panhandle into Mississippi as locally heavy rain Monday threatened a repeat of weekend downpours and storms that damaged homes, blacked out a jail and spun off at least one tornado in Alabama. A 23-year-old Mississippi man drowned off Florida’s Pensacola Beach and [...]
SANDY HOOK, N.J. — The U.S. Coast Guard says a report of an explosion on a motor yacht off central New Jersey could be a hoax because it can’t find any signs of distress in the water. Authorities received an emergency radio transmission from a boat identifying itself as the Blind Date on Monday afternoon. [...]
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about Brian Banks, a man wrongly convicted of rape, and how the justice system failed him. LONG BEACH – Ten years ago, a 17-year-old boy sat in the Long Beach Superior Courthouse and was asked to make an impossible decision. Admit to rape, sodomy and [...]
LONDON, June 11, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – On the Beach sees a surge of bookings for summer holidays abroad On the Beach, the UK’s leading online travel agent has witnessed a massive increase in bookings for cheap summer holidays abroad. This suggests that once again domestic holidays have been left behind as Brits pack their [...]
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Flood warnings stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida’s Panhandle into Mississippi as locally heavy rain Monday threatened a repeat of weekend downpours and storms that damaged homes, blacked out a jail and spun off at least one tornado in Alabama. A 23-year-old Mississippi man drowned off Florida’s Pensacola Beach and [...]
DESTIN, Fla., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – As summer kicks off, Tropical Smoothie Cafe is gearing up for their official holiday, National Flip Flop Day, on June 15. Each year, the gourmet smoothie and sandwich chain hands out its signature smoothie, the Jetty Punch, to customers who come into cafes sporting flip flops. [...]
1) Newsbit of the Day: The two Recreation Department sailboats that were swept from the beach to Nahant in last week’s storm survived the ride without damage. Sailing team members were to clean up all the racing boats in the Rec. Dept. fleet and check their lines for fraying over the weekend, the recreation director [...]
LONDON, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Monarch is one of the oldest and most established UK airlines, with over 50 years’ travelling experience. Monarch’s fleet of 30 airplanes carries over 6.5 million passengers a year, so they are well qualified to understand what’s popular for UK holidaymakers. Croatia has become one of their [...]
The California State University system has spent an average of $21,880 per year, per home on maintenance of 10 presidential homes over five years, much more than virtually all American homeowners who responded to a national housing survey. Already under fire for spending $2 million on renovations to these residences in the last decade, CSU [...]
New Jersey Vacation Condo Rentals just listed on http://www.bobzio.com. Condo is located close to Atlantic City. Visit bobzio.com for more photos and information. Atlantic City, New Jersey (PRWEB) June 11, 2012 This luxury condo is a former sample home and is only steps to the beach and boardwalk! The unit has two private decks and [...]
CLEVELAND — Bored by 40-year-old artifacts that seem ancient to them, a group of junior high students were on a long, strange trip through a Grateful Dead exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they saw something they could relate to amid Jerry Garcia’s guitar collection. Sunglasses sweeping back long hair, the [...]
Severe winds and large swells are forecast for much of the north coast, as heavy rainfall forces road and ferry closures in Sydney. A severe weather warning has been issued for areas between Point Danger on the Queensland/NSW border to Yamba further south with winds of up to 74 km/h expected to lash the coast. [...]
MIAMI — Floodwaters from torrential rains damaged homes and closed roads throughout the Florida Panhandle, cutting power to the county jail and sending residents to emergency shelters as the area braced for additional rains Sunday. A tornado connected with the storm system also uprooted trees and destroyed chicken houses Sunday in southeastern Alabama, where an [...]
