Monday, May 15, 2006 Due to an Oakland housing official’s acts of fraud, 34 poor families face eviction from Lockwood Gardens, by order of the Oakland Housing Authority. Fear and panic have set in at some of East Oakland’s public housing units, as police agents from the Oakland Housing Authority have been making late-night visits […]
Helping Families Heal Through Home Care Services In Phoenix
More On This Topic: Home Care Providers Aged Care At Home byAlma Abell Caring for loved ones can be a difficult process. During the final stages of life, the burden on a family can even feel insurmountable. In these times, it has often felt necessary in the past to have the family gathered close by, […]
Wikinews holds Reform Party USA presidential candidates forum
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Three men are currently seeking the presidential nomination of the Reform Party of the United States of America: small business owner Andre Barnett, Earth Intelligence Network CEO Robert Steele, and former college football coach Robby Wells. Wikinews reached out to these candidates and asked each of them five questions about their […]
New York City Mass Transit facing service cuts
Friday, December 11, 2009 New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is proposing to make service cuts to close its expected US$343 million (€234m, GBP £211m) budget deficit. The plan includes the elimination of multiple bus lines in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, the elimination of the W (Astoria, Queens to Lower Manhattan) and the Z […]
Mud Flaps: An Essential For Trucks
More On This Topic: Top Labour Hire Companies Australia Construction Machinery Sales Mud Flaps: An Essential for Trucks by Leo Nelson Among all the vehicles that you might know of, trucks are the ones that get a lot of punishment. This really isn’t that surprising since trucks have run and/or can run through any surface. […]
Lib Dems launch manifesto
Thursday, April 14, 2005 An exhausted Charles Kennedy returned to the election campaign to launch a twenty page Liberal Democrat manifesto targeted at disaffected Labour voters, promising a fairer tax system and withdrawal from Iraq. Entitled The Real Alternative the manifesto pledges to reduce the lowest rate of income tax, but increase the rate on […]
Edmonton prison conflict wounds eight
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Eight inmates at a maximum security prison in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada are hospitalized after a conflict broke out on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Police state that there are at least eight who were stabbed, all of them are in their 20s, and one of the injured was also shot. The incident, […]
Find me all the red balloons; MIT wins DARPA challenge
Monday, December 7, 2009 A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the challenge to find ten 8-foot (2.4 metre) weather balloons spread across the continental United States, just nine hours after the event’s start. In a test of the nation’s social networking skills, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency […]
Single Women Looking For Rich Men
More On This Topic: Restaurant Menus Hamilton Hamilton Menu By Tammy Johnston It is no doubt that thousands of single women looking for rich men use the internet dating sites to find their dream mate. Rich men dating sites are popular because they helped thousands of women seeking wealthy men found their perfect mate. The […]
UK minor faces charges for calling Scientology ‘cult’ at protest
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 News media in the United Kingdom are reporting that a boy under the age of 18 was served with a court summons by City of London Police because he held a placard calling Scientology a “cult” at a peaceful protest on May 10. Human rights activists have criticized the decision to […]