Is Charlotte discount bus service safe?
Less than a year after regulators shut down Charlotte-based bus company Sky Express after a deadly wreck, federal records show another bus company operating from Sky Express' old building ranks as one of the country's worst offenders for unsafe driving.
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Taylor Lautner's Not So Brilliant Career
The Call Sheet sifts through the day's glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A Taylor Lautner project falls apart, Shirley MacLaine heads to Downton, and Rooney Mara picks her next role.
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New phone can get help in a hurry
People living in one of Cape Town’s informal settlements will be able to report broken toilets and taps to a city agent at the push of a button. Council workers who respond will be directed by a GPS application on their radio phones to the exact location.
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Grim humour: The shocking photo found on the mobile phone of David Amor appearing to hold a severed head. The person has been obscured to protect his identity
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Pats Ihedigbo, Milford's Cullen go way back
James Ihedigbo’s cell phone rings, but he doesn’t pick it up. He recognizes the number, and it’s a friendly one, but he has other things on his mind. That was nearly three weeks ago, and the caller on the other end was Milford football coach Tom Cullen, Ihedigbo’s high school coach at Amherst Regional. But the Patriots safety was busy preparing for the option offense of the Denver Broncos.
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RI student has bond with NY Giants player Blackmon
When Bishop Hendricken High School student Jehvine Quaweay was prepping for the state championship in freshmen football last year, he received a phone call from a prized alumnus he idolizes.
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Leveson Inquiry: as it happened January 18
Coverage from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics and phone hacking, in which evidence will be heard from editors and senior executives of the Trinity Mirror group.
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New Olana site manager has big plans
GREENPORT — Kimberly Flook, the new site manager of the Olana State Historic Site, is the main liaison between New York state and Olana. But that doesn’t mean she’ll be spending all her time at a desk or on a phone.
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Column 8
''As an ex-telephonist, perhaps I can advise on the vexing question of who redials once a connection has been lost,'' writes Greg Tanner, of O'Connor, ACT (Accidentally hanging up on a caller while doing the ironing, Column 8, yesterday). ''The initiative belongs to the person who made the call in the first place. Anything else inevitably leads to a host of missed calls.'' But not everyone ...
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Archaeologist named Olana site manager
GREENPORT — Kimberly Flook, the new site manager of Olana Historic Site, is the main liaison between New York state and Olana. But that doesn’t mean she’ll be spending all her time at a desk or on a phone.
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