News from Daily News Journal - 05/15/2008
MTSU golf in fourth at NCAA Regional
CHATTANOOGA — Kent Bulle set the tempo and his Blue Raider golf teammates followed suit as MTSU shot the fourth-lowest round in school history and is tied for fourth after the first round of the NCAA East Regional at Council Fire Golf Course Thursday.
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News from Burlington Times-News - 05/15/2008
Burlington attorney charged with embezzlement
HIGH POINT - A Burlington woman, who police identified as an attorney, has been accused of misappropriating funds from a housing community.
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News from WJHG Panama City - 05/15/2008
High School Football
Choctaw's first year football coach is spending spring practice getting to know his new players!
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News from The Arizona Republic - 05/15/2008
El Niño may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific
Magellan's trip is so soaked with drama that historians tend to overlook the slow cruise across calm seas.
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News from New York Times - 05/15/2008
Superstition Meets the Web, Stinging Chinese Authorities
Persistent rumors and tall tales by some Chinese bloggers are proving nettlesome to the authorities as they grapple with China?s most calamitous disaster in a generation.
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News from Science News - 05/15/2008
In print
When it comes to exploding stars, or supernovas, the Milky Way galaxy appears to be running an embarrassing deficit. On average, galaxies rack up two to three such celestial blasts per century, but 1680 had been the last time light from such an explosion in our galaxy reached Earth.
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News from WGHP Greensboro - 05/15/2008
What's Right With Our Schools: School Testing Boot Camp
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) -- Next week, elementary school students across the state will take their end-of-grade tests, and many schools have been finding creative ways to get students excited and ready. At Cash Elementary School, teachers have created "boot camp" to get students pumped about taking the test and doing well.
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News from WGHP Greensboro - 05/15/2008
Road Trip: Falls Lake State Park
Falls Lake, the water reservoir for the Triangle area, is surrounded by 26,000 acres of woodlands. One of 39 North Carolina state parks, Falls Lake features 12,000 acres of water, seven separate recreation areas and 350 campsites. But don't let the name fool you, there are no waterfalls at Falls Lake ... just plenty of fishing, camping and relaxing.
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News from EurekAlert! - 05/15/2008
NC State researcher finds El Niño may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage
A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions – including what we now know as El Niño – which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a thousand miles from his intended destination.
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News from USA Today - 05/15/2008
El Nino may have helped explorer Magellan cross the Pacific
The El Nio phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
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News from WXII-TV Winston-Salem - 05/15/2008
State Fair To Open One Day Early
RALEIGH -- Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Thursday that the North Carolina State Fair will open its gates a day early for a preview on October 16.
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News from Triangle Business Journal - 05/15/2008
State Fair to open a day early
The North Carolina State Fair will open at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16 - giving the public its first extra day at the fair in 22 years, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Thursday.
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News from WRAL.com Raleigh - 05/15/2008
State Fair to add 'preview' day
Can't get enough funnel cakes, blue-ribbon veggies and midway rides? The 2008 North Carolina State Fair plans to cure what ails you by adding an 11th day to the annual event.
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News from Nature - 05/15/2008
Milky Way's youngest supernova found
Remnants of 140-year-old stellar explosion are located close to our galaxy's centre.
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News from The Capital - 05/15/2008
School Notes
Beth Nonemaker, 18, daughter of Michelle and Randy Nonemaker of Arnold, had her composition, "The Glass Coffin" performed by a woodwind quintet at the Peabody Preparatory Spring Composition Recital.
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News from Tri-State Neighbor - 05/15/2008
Op-Ed: Livestock producers make efficient use of resources
As livestock producers in South Dakota, we often consider ourselves “shielded” from the activist attacks on agriculture that happen in more populous areas.
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News from AP via Yahoo! News - 05/15/2008
El Nino may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific
The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
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Blog from Fastpitch.US - 05/15/2008
2008 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-Region Teams Announced
2008 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-Region Teams Announced Posted by Fastpitch ... University of Michigan P Nikki Nemitz University of Michigan C Samantha Marder Ohio State University 1B ... Illinois State University SS Teddi Ewing University of Michigan OF Jherica Williams Wright State
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News from KATU Portland - 05/15/2008
Galaxy's youngest known supernova is 140 years old
Scientists used a radio observatory in New Mexico and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in space to identify when the supernova occurred. They put the star-dying event at sometime around 1868.
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News from Die Welt - 05/15/2008
Jüngste Supernova der Milchstraße entdeckt
Supernovae zählen zu den spektakulärsten Ereignissen im Weltall: US-Astronomen haben jetzt in der Milchstraße die bislang jüngste Sternenexplosion identifiziert. Ihre Strahlung erreichte die Erde vor 140 Jahren. Kein anderes Objekt in der Galaxie hat vergleichbare Eigenschaften, schwärmt ein beteiligter Forscher.
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