Come on board for cut-price Easter cruises
| Discounted deals on cruises are often for voyages months ahead but here are some good offers for cruises over Easter or starting in Easter week. Cruise & Maritime Voyages has big reductions on board...
Guilty Plea in Extortion Attempt Against Letterman
| Saying that he felt “great remorse for what I have done,” a former CBS producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman by threatening to reveal det...
Movie Stars
| New releases | Alice in Wonderland A disappointment. There's nothing wrong with a revisionist "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,'' but Tim Burton's 3-D version ultimately looks like every other CGI ...
Doc Ford is inspiration for author's saucy ambitions
| SANIBEL, Fla. - Randy Wayne White walks into Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grille, around the freestanding rack that displays his best-selling books, past the shelves stocked with bottles of hot sauc...
Food Notes: March 10
| This week and weekend | Aspire, 311 Westminster St., Providence, (401) 521-3333, aspirerestaurant.com, and Jest Mysteries present "Bullets in the Bathtub," a murder mystery, Thursday, March 11, begi...
Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks
| PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered...
Inside the secret world of the Freemasons
| FOR centuries they have existed within society but outside it, hidden amid secret oaths and rituals. | Legend and rumour were allowed to run rife, blaming them for the control of kings and kingdoms,...
Baby Broncos to come under attack
| BRISBANE will field one of the youngest and most inexperienced first-round teams in their history on Friday night - and derby rivals North Queensland have vowed to turn up the heat on Ivan Henjak...
Yar’Adua: Another Round of Mass Actions Begins
Today, Nigeria will witness yet another round of mass protests. Save Nigeria Group, an assembly of eminent Nigerians which twice protested the refusal of President Umaru Yar’Adua to hand over power to...
NYC chef creates breast milk cheese
| NEW YORK -- Breast milk cheese, anyone? A Manhattan chef has posted a recipe on his blog for what he calls "My spouse's mommy milk cheese." Daniel Angerer co-owns Klee Brasserie with his wife Lori M...
Public workers target Citibank over cities' rate-swap costs
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Cuisine quest: Shrimp chowder, as Donna made it
| By Lesli J. Nielson | The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 03/09/2010 04:11:11 PM MST | Russ Fairless from Sandy was so thrilled with our recipe for Bratten's fried scallops he requested another of Br...
'Lost' The Final Seaon: 'What Kate Does' (2010)
| I spoke too soon in week 1 when I speculated that the writers of “Lost” may have finally stopped stringing us along. Alas, in that great “Lost” tradition, “What Kate Do...
Food trucks offer new avenue for young chefs
Comments MIAMI (Map, News) - Culinary student Solomon Nerio could be slaving away on the line in any Miami restaurant, chopping onions with a dozen other chefs. Instead, he took to the road in a food ...
Slain autistic boy's mom banned from son's funeral
Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - A former pharmaceutical industry executive charged with murdering her autistic son in New York by feeding him prescription drugs was barred from attending his funeral. ...
Florida State's Singleton ACC's top defender
Comments GREENSBORO, N.C. (Map, News) - Florida State's Chris Singleton is the defensive player of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference. | Singleton was the leading vote-getter on the league's al...
Producer Admits to Attempted Letterman Shakedown
| Filed at 5:31 p.m. ET | NEW YORK (AP) -- A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, avoiding a l...
The burden of believing in global weirding
| We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. | Many scientists don't even like the term. They prefer the more benign "climate c...
Shift in telecoms regulations could spur economic growth, UN report says
| 9 March 2010 – New approaches in regulating information and communication technology (ICT) could help to stimulate investment and growth in rolling out new networks and upgrading technology, despite...
Producer admits to attempted David Letterman shakedown
| NEW YORK (AP) - A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pl...
David Letterman's extortionist pleads guilty
Louis Lanzano This Nov. 10, 2009 file photo shows Robert "Joe" Halderman outside Manhattan criminal court following his court appearance in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano) More News | NEW YORK — A...