EPA zeroes in on one local company, lets another go (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

One Tooele County company has officially been proposed to be listed as an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site, while a proposal to list another company just over the county line has been withdrawn by the EPA and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.

Hantavirus can be lethal, Dept. of Health urges care (Devils Lake Journal)

A 29 year-old resident of Hettinger, ND recently died after a brief illness with hantavirus and now the N.D. Department of Health is urging all citizens to be a little more careful.

Local author Miriam Toews' latest book explores a family's struggle to cope with mental illness (Uptown Magazine)

Winnipeg's literary sweetheart Miriam Toews is going to make her many fans happy this fall.

Chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer spurs new worries (The Flint Journal)

Could one sick deer end up costing millions in lost revenue for Michigan tourism, hunting and agriculture?

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: 'I'm nervous about letting my son visit his friend's house' (Independent)

Dear Virginia, My five-year-old son has a best friend who often comes round for tea or a sleepover. My problem is his mother, who asks my son back in return. I am nervous of letting him go. She has a large 'tame' dog and the children are allowed to roll around with it. She feeds them piles of junk food, and also has a swimming pool, which is unfenced. Plus, I'm not so sure how vigilant she is ...

Mosquitoes be gone! (WPTV West Palm Beach)

Residents especially living in the western communities say mosquitoes are a problem.

Oyster Virus in France Risks Making Delicacy `Rare as Caviar' (Bloomberg.com)

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jean-Pierre Suire reaches into a nylon bag suspended in a tidal pool on the French Atlantic coast and takes out a dozen baby oysters, none larger than his thumbnail. They're all he has left from 2,000 he bought in May.

Wasting disease causes ban on deer, elk baiting (Cheboygan Daily Tribune)

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has issued an immediate ban on all deer and elk baiting and feeding in the Lower Peninsula, which could last the entirety of the upcoming deer season.

FEMA relief aids in Tropical Storm Fay yard debris cleanup (Marco Eagle)

Collier County was included in the Presidential Emergency Declaration for Tropical Storm Fay Friday. This declaration makes federal disaster relief funds for residential storm-related horticultural debris collection available through FEMA and removes earlier restrictions on how the yard debris is bundled.

Day of the rolling stones (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The end of the move was signaled with the blast of a horn and a cheer from onlookers. "It's just terrific," said a beaming Richard Harris, as he surveyed his beloved 19th-century stone house Friday afternoon in its new majestic setting, 120 feet farther from the road than it had been 31/2 hours earlier.

Rituals : BLOG

You wake up one morning and smell it. You drive down the road and see it. Fall is coming, and it trips a signal in the brain of the mountain dweller.

Storm Update: New information on Lafayette debris collection

STORM UPDATE: New information on Lafayette debris collection Amanda McElfresh * amcelfresh@theadvertiser.com * September 5, 2008 Lafayette Consolidated Government's Public Works Department has released the ...

Jay Rayner reviews Gourmet San, London E2

It was with regret that we laid down our chopsticks and admitted defeat. It was the unfinished whole crab that hurt the most: chopped up, then flash-fried in a light batter, it lay amid a pungent, rustling nest ...

The once and future Castle

Big things were happening up on the hill at the old Lyons Farm, just east of Binghamton.

Apple season underway in Southern N.H.

Londonderry is the heart of New Hampshire's apple country and all the summer rain made good growing for apples.

Forestry stocks sprouting profits afters years of downslide

C'mon. That's an oxymoron, isn't it? As everyone knows, forestry firms do nothing but lose money.

Waste Management Deals With Piles of Garbage

Striking workers and company set to resume talks next week

Full Lafourche Parish Update

Here is a summary of the latest and most important information in Lafourche Parish: RE-ENTRY INFO: Lafourche Parish residents are being allowed back into the Parish.

Fasting improves physical & mental health

Thursday, September 04, 2008 Muhammad Qasim Islamabad Islamic fasting has numerous benefits including physical and mental, as it not only helps breaking addictions to harmful substances, but also is a mean of ...

Massive fish kill strikes South River

More than 100,000 fish suffocated on the South River's Aberdeen Creek this week, victims of low oxygen levels in the water.