4th of July News

After 14 years of sponsoring the popular July 4 Fireworks Display at the Port of Brookings Harbor, the local Vietnam Veterans of America chapter is stepping down and looking for a replacement.

So it's April. It's the Los Angeles stop of this past year's Fango Weekend of Horrors.

The skies over much of Lee County will go quiet next Fourth of July unless a fireworks angel rides to the rescue.

One of the suspects in a crime spree in the Wausau area over the Fourth of July weekend is expected in court today.

It was 1988, with the first Intifada in full bloom and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the lead up to their November 29th declaration of independence, when I met with a few members of the PLO Executive Committee to discuss their plans.

A King County Superior Court judge ruled Seattle doesn't have to do an environmental review before July Fourth fireworks displays at Gas Works Park.

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Plans are under way for the centennial Lake Bluff Fourth of July Parade, and a parade committee has been announced.

The Pacific Palisades resident, a partner of director Roland Emmerich at Centropolis Entertainment, is one of the producers of Sony Pictures' '2012,' which opens in movie theaters worldwide.

The random nature of fate gets a workout in Scott McGehee and David Siegel's Uncertainty .

After completing surgeries that gave her two new hips and a new knee earlier this year, McCannon fell in June.

ON TUESDAY, President Shimon Peres celebrated his jubilee as an elected public servant.

For those of you who think that you wouldn't be into a science fiction show about aliens trying to conquer the world, you need to see V . I've never seen Alien or Close Encounters and I only have a moderate obsession with the Will Smith action flick Independence Day once a year around the 4th of July .

So what's in a name? When it comes to the state's holiday tree, many people are saying, "a lot." Governor Beshear is coming under fire for changing the name of the tree from "Christmas" to "holiday." "For Jane and me obviously, it'll be a Christmas tree because we celebrate the birth of Christ during the holiday season," Beshear said.

Bruce Ratner "doesn't need" the massive public subsidy handed to him by the state Assembly last week, Mayor Bloomberg said on Friday - and called for Gov.

Chicago hookers work overtime around the Fourth of July holiday, suicide bombers should buy life insurance, and capuchin monkeys have learned to use money to acquire Jell-O cubes and sexual favors.

Two brothers convicted of firing a military flare that sparked a meatpacking plant fire the day after Independence Day in suburban Milwaukee will celebrate the next three Fourth of Julys in jail to remind them of their crimes.

The fields at Gilbert's Mesquite High School were the staging grounds for two of the town's largest public events this year, causing them some wear and tear.

Articles 22:25 10/21/2009 'A thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.' - Douglas By William A. Cook 'There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.' One hundred and forty seven years ago that charge was leveled at the ...

Sedgwick County officials are considering lifting a longtime ban on Fourth of July fireworks in unincorporated areas, bowing to the reality that they can't enforce their current law.