2nd straight title for Timber Creek Propelled by Jasmine Martin’s 29 points, Timber Creek High School clinched its second straight Olympic Conference Patriot Division girls’ basketball title with a 59-40 victory over visiting Shawnee Wednesday night. Read more on Courier-Post Tweet This Post

District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office drops, then refiles charges against contractor The Orleans Parish district attorney’s office dumped charges Wednesday against a house contractor accused of bilking one of DA Leon Cannizzaro’s biggest political supporters after a judge refused to grant a prosecutor’s motion to delay the trial.View full sizeGary Solomon,… Read more on New [...]

Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells by Staff Writers Cambridge, MA (SPX) Feb 23, 2011 A team of applied physicists at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. Read more on SpaceDaily Tweet This Post

US-BUSINESS Summary Oil jumps, Asia shares fall on Libya unrest Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News Tweet This Post

Seminoles start 2011 unbeaten Baseball is back at Florida State, as the No. 11 Seminoles started their season with three dominant performances over the VMI Keydets. The Seminoles (3-0) recorded 12 hits for 12 runs on Opening Day, as they drubbed VMI 12-0, marking their first shutout victory on opening day since 1985. Read more [...]

PNoy: Kilala ko mga nasa likod ni dating Gen. Garcia Konting panahon na lang at tutumbukin na ng Malacañang ang mga nasa likod ni retired Maj. Gen Carlos Garcia, isang dating comptroller ng militar na akusado ng pandarambong sa pamahalaan, sabi ni Pangulong Aquino kahapon. Sinabi in G. Aquino na mayroon siyang “ideas” kung sino [...]

Ex-Alice In Chains bassist jailed in SLC on drug counts Ex-Alice In Chains bassist jailed in SLC on drug counts By bob mims The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Feb 18, 2011 09:54AM MDT Michael Starr, a founding member of the Alice In Chains rock band and a recent participant in VH1’s Celebrity Rehab show, was [...]

Senate votes to ban cell phone use by teen drivers Senate votes to ban cell phone use by teen drivers By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Feb 18, 2011 12:12AM MDT The Senate on Thursday approved a bill to ban motorists under the age of 18 from driving while using cell phones — [...]

Police kill 2 in clashes with Yemen protesters Police opened fire on protesters during clashes in a southern Yemeni port Wednesday, killing two people, in the first known deaths in six days of Egypt-style demonstrations across the country’s biggest cities, demanding the ouster of the president, a key U.S. ally in battling al-Qaida. Read more [...]

Legislative panel advances guest worker bill Legislative panel advances guest worker bill By David Montero The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Feb 15, 2011 07:24PM MDT Rep. Bill Wright’s guest worker immigration bill passed out of committee 6-1 Tuesday despite questions about its constitutionality and its ability to be enacted without a federal waiver. The legislation [...]