Damu Cherry News

"You don't need all this when you're Magneto." -- Quipped Nobel Prize-winning chemist and Florida State professor Sir Harry Kroto.

"Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize." -- Marco Rubio joked.

In 2008, foreign buyers were responsible for about one-third of new and existing home sales in Florida, according to the National Association of Realtors' 2009 profile of international home buying.

"I thought the phone would be ringing off the hook." The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser's Office is offering a break to homeowners with tainted drywall imported from China and is surprised more people aren't taking advantage of it.

Through the 1990s and the earlier part of this decade, Bonita Bay was regarded as one of the leading developers in the Naples area, which has the highest per capita income of any locale in the country except Stamford-Greenwich, Conn.

Gay and Jeter to run one last 100m In the final meet of the season, Tyson Gay and Carmelita Jeter will each run their respective 100 meter races Friday at the 2009 Colorful Daegu Meeting, which takes place in the host city of the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2011.

Olympic silver medallist Sherone Simpson recorded her second victory in three days and her teammate Steve Mullings was also a winner as Jamaicans swept both 100-metre races at the Rovereto International meeting on Tuesday.

Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep celebrates after winning the silver medal in the final of the women's 100m hurdles in Berlin on Wednesday.

After a less-than-perfect race in her semifinals heat, Tampa's Damu Cherry has been eliminated from the women's 100-meter hurdles at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships on Wednesday afternoon in Berlin.

QUEENSLANDER Sally McLellan's first reaction to getting the cobwebs out in her opening hit-out at the world athletics titles was succinct: Terrible.

Sanya Richards ran the 400 meters Tuesday night at the world track and field championships with a safety pin holding together her "faster than a speeding bullet" necklace.

Brigitte Foster-Hylton , Delloreen Ennis-London and Lacena Golding-Clarke celebrate after Foster-Hylton's gold medal run in the 100 metres hurdles at the Commonweatlh Games in Melbourne, Australia, in 2006.

Sports Management Firm, Icon Management Inc. and sports agent Kimberly N. Holland have announced the signing of Track & Field star Sarah Bowman.

U.S. Olympian and World Champion Lolo Jones blasted to a world-leading 12.47seconds to win the women's 100m Hurdles at the 25th Vardinoyiannia athletics meeting in Rethymno, Greece.

Jamaica's Steve Mullings sped to a personal best 20.01 in the 200 metres at the yesterday's Vardinoyannia International Track and Field meet in Rethymno, Greece.

American hurdler Lolo Jones won the women's 100-meter hurdles in a world-leading 12.47 seconds at the Vardinoyiannia track meet Monday.

The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion in a single fiscal year for the first time - on its way to a projected $1.84 trillion or more by the end of the fiscal year in September.

Olympic hurdler Damu Cherry, who trains in Clermont, describes her daily training regimen and what it was like to compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Usain Bolt is the main topic of discussion ahead of the Golden Gala, even though the Jamaican sprinter isn't competing in Friday's Golden League meet.

Rome, July 11: Tyson Gay sent a warning to Usain Bolt when the American clocked the fastest 100 metres time of the year, 9.77 seconds, at the Golden League series stop in Rome.