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Chris Economaki dies at 91; pioneering motor sports journalist

2012-09-29 00:00:00

Chris Economaki, a journalist long regarded as the authoritative voice in motor sports, died Friday. He was 91. National Speed Sport News, which Economaki edited and published for more than 60 years, announced his death but gave no details. Economaki,...

â€˜Addicted to Energyâ€™ : A venture capitalist's plans for efficiency

2011-01-10 16:33:26

John McCracken dies at 76; contemporary artist made geometric sculptures

2011-04-10 00:00:00

John McCracken, an artist whose fusion of painting with geometric sculpture in the mid-1960s came to embody an aesthetic distinctive to postwar Los Angeles, died Friday in New York. He was 76. McCracken had lived in Santa Fe, N.M., since 1994 and,...

ARCHIVE: Soldiering on, N.Y. style

2001-09-18 07:00:00

Walter Pilipiak is an insurance broker who walked down 89 flights of stairs in a World Trade Center tower last week and rode up 22 stories Monday morning to borrowed office space in a glass tower in midtown Manhattan. He is back at work, this lucky...

Dreamhouse in the trees

2004-08-05 00:00:00

By Steven Barrie-Anthony, Times Staff Writer It usually starts as a joke. Even you think you're kidding, at first. A treehouse? Grow up. But then fantasy overwhelms your rational instincts, bit by bit. "Doesn't everyone want a treehouse?" Kit Sickels...

Barbara Demick Named Seoul Bureau Chief

2001-12-10 00:00:00

The Los Angeles Times has named Barbara Demick as foreign correspondent and bureau chief of its Seoul, South Korea bureau. She most recently served as Middle East bureau chief for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Demick is The Times' first full-time Seoul...

Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

2001-09-15 19:57:00

The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....

Renovations give South Charleston pool a Key West feel

2013-05-17 04:44:01

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Lounging at Ridgewood Pool conjures images of a day at the beach. "It's like a Key West atmosphere," said John Wright, vice president of the pool board. "It's a beach resort theme." Wright and pool board president Keith...

Police Department to celebrate 100 years

2013-05-14 13:54:03

Sebring Police Department will celebrate its first century on Thursday with an open house and a ceremony, events that are open to the public. Sebring Police Chief Thomas Dettman said the event will be held from 3:45 to 6 p.m. at the Sebring Police...

Moravian College graduates

2013-05-13 13:33:00

Moravian College held graduation ceremonies 10 a.m. May 11. The ceremony concludes the 271st academic year at Moravian, America's sixth-oldest college. Moravian College President Christopher M. Thomforde conferred degrees to approximately 398 bachelor...

Football powers left behind in Suburban Christian breakup

2013-05-03 16:17:00

Wheaton Academy athletic director Andrew Tink called the move to the Metro Suburban Conference a matter of simple mathematics. Wheaton Academy was one of seven Suburban Christian Conference schools that agreed Thursday to leave for the Metro Suburban...

05/06: New businesses

2013-05-05 08:19:00

Occupational licenses issued recently by county and municipal governments in Central Florida; data collected by Market Force Corp. of Newtown Square, Pa. Orange Bryan's Construction and Remodeling, remodeling, 8029 Village Green Road, Orlando, 32818....

Michael Sepke of Montini wrestles Sam Karim of Ridgewood.

2013-02-15 00:00:00

Corkey Bowles sent us this picture from Ridgewood Baptist Church on Hemlock Road in NW Roanoke.

2012-08-01 18:30:00

Thomas Buchanan McGuire was born August 1, 1920 in Ridgewood, N. J. When his family broke up, he moved with his mother to Sebring, according to the Florida Memory Web site. McGuire attended Georgia Tech. Enlisted in the Army Air Corps July 1941.

2012-05-23 10:38:00