Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Louisa SnellingsKeith, 90, mother of a distinguished Chicago pediatrician and publicbenefactor, Dr. Laurel Keith, who was the first black admitted to thestaff of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.
Mrs. Keith died last Thursday of natural causes at the CassCounty Nursing Home, Cassopolis, Mich.
Dr. Keith, the youngest of her two sons, was a member of thehistoric 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first …
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria says it is expelling a senior Libyan diplomat in charge of consular affairs.
The foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that Ibrahim Al-Furis has been declared persona non-grata and asked to leave Bulgaria within 24 hours.
The ministry did not say why Al-Furis was expelled. It quoted Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations …
Scoreboard Wednesday in the final of the tri-nation series limited-overs international between India and Sri Lanka at Dhaka's Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium:
India Innings
Virender Sehwag c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 42
Gautam Gambhir b Kulasekara 0
Virat Kohli c Sangakkara b Welegedara 2
Yuvraj Singh c Samaraweera b Welegedara 0
Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 14
Suresh Raina b Welegedara 106
Ravindra Jaeda lbw Dilshan 38
Harbhajan Singh lbw Randiv 11
Zaheer Khan c Samaraweera b Kulasekara 16
Ashish Nehra not out 2
Shantakumaran …
In the combative 29th Ward aldermanic contest, each candidateblasts the other as an opportunistic carpetbagger with no stake inthe community, a puppet of political allies, and a guy not aboveusing threats to get elected.
And this is one of the quieter contests in the rough-and-tumbleworld of West Side politics.
"We've had some real rough ones where there was literallyfist-fighting, but times have come and gone," said Mary JohnsonVolpe, executive director of the Northeast Austin Organization.Each of the candidates in the April 13 runoff accuses the otherof trying to turn back the clock in the Far West Side ward, whichincludes a long, narrow strip of the Austin …
Up-scale developments have begun to invade the East Boston waterfront, raising property values and threatening to crowd-out poorer residents.
It is a mainly low-income development which has a group of neighborhood residents up in arms, however.
The Boston Housing Authority plans to raze two of its affordable housing structures in the area to make way for a mixed-income project which would include slightly fewer low-income units.
Critics say the BHA's grab for federal funds is aimed at sprucing up its housing developments so they will fit in with the expensive market-rate and luxury developments planned around them, and is not in the best interests of the low-income …
Advanced DNA testing led U.S. government investigators to suspect a government scientist in the 2001 anthrax killings. The scientist's odd behavior, suspicious e-mails and unusual work hours convinced them they had the right man.
The government declared the 2001 attacks solved Wednesday, pointing the blame at former Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide last week as prosecutors prepared to bring charges. The Justice Department said it was confident it could have convicted the scientist, who spent his career developing anthrax vaccines and cures at the bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick, MNaryland.
Authorities cited advanced DNA testing that showed …
Infosys chief mentor N. R. Narayana Murthy had not done a townhall ever since he stepped down from the executive post in August2006, but the 62-year-old industry veteran, who founded Infosys wayback in the early '80s along with half a dozen other ITprofessionals made an exception in January this year. He walked intothe Infosys auditorium at Bangalore where over 5,000 Infoscions werewaiting patiently to hear him for the first time in many years someof them may be for the first time (the average age at Infosys isjust 26 years).
The IT industry was in the grip of the global slowdown and theSatyam fraud had damaged India's 'software' reputation abroad. Afteran opening speech …
