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With a full-time job in Little Rock and plenty of after-school commitments for her son, Peyton, 8, Andrea Beedle has been putting in lots of evening hours to get her new business off the ground.

If you're serious about collecting wines of rarity and significance, then you could do worse than cast your eye over the offerings at the 22nd Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' Charity Fine Wine Auction this Queen's Birthday weekend.

The scandal is that Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths.

La MaMa, in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue, presents the New York Premiere of the acclaimed Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!, featuring original music and a concept by Fred Ho, co-written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff, directed by Sonoko Kawahara, with martial arts choreography by Emmanuel Brown and Japanese sword fighting ... (more)

A time-yellowed, 439-year-old baptismal registry from 16th century France, recently found to contain long-sought clues about the birth and family history of the famed New World explorer Samuel de Champlain, has arrived in Canada to help mark a major milestone in this country's own birth.

Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! The authors examine every species: its often many-and-varied common ... (more)

By George Pajari - North Shore Outlook Published: May 16, 2013 9:00 AM Updated: May 16, 2013 9:48 AM In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of ... beer.

Whether it's the sighting of the first robin, the honking of geese overhead or the swallows descending on Capistrano, the return of migratory birds is a sure sign that spring is coming.

Radar operators find it hard to distinguish between low-flying aircraft and wind turbines, causing confusion for civil and military air traffic controllers.

The fires that swept through the Warrumbungles early this year may have destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of bushland, family homes and killed animals but what it didn't do was dampen community spirit.

Knit and Natter club members, from left, Margaret O'Kane, Mary C. Henry, Eileen McGilligan and Rose McLaughlin, pictured at Dungiven Library on Tuesday.

May 21 - Learn and Earn Financial Fitness: Set Your Financial Sights, 7-8 p.m., age 50 and older, register.

The Charleston County Aviation Authority board approved a $30.5 million budget that includes a modest increase in revenues during a board meeting today.

ABC has announced August and September DVD and Blu-ray release dates for some of its most popular series - including Once Upon a Time: The Complete Second Season, Scandal: The Complete Second Season, Nashville: The Complete First Season, and Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Ninth Season.

Once upon a time - like five years ago - all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll.

The Beautiful Mess iPhone app, from the cult lifestyle blog of the same name, is designed to let you enhance your photos and turn them into quirky masterpieces.

A Knitting Club, run by retired teacher Claire Biggs once a week at Hugh Sexey Middle School, has become very popular with pupils.

There may be nothing so analog as working with yarn - stitching and looping fibers by hand to create an interlocked network of fiber.

In this Tuesday, May 14, 2013 photo, workers are silhouetted at a construction site of a residential project in Rizhao city in east China's Shandong province.

Police investigate on Wednesday an incident that some netizens claimed was "the country's first case of a hijacked helicopter", in Dezhou, East China's Shandong province.