Oakland's bullpen has converted 45 of 51 save opportunities. Willie McCovey, playing with a 14 handicap, shot a 79 Sunday to winthe first Hall of Fame Golf Classic at Cooperstown, N.Y. RobinRoberts finished second with an 80 and Joe Morgan, Billy Williams andDuke Snider shared third place with 85s. The Arlington Stadium crowd of 41,635 Sunday was the seventh selloutof the season for the Rangers. It was the sixth time this …
SANYA, China (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday made a rare visit by an American official to a Chinese island once a flash point in relations between the powers and pressed Beijing to settle territorial disputes with its smaller, wary neighbors.
The Obama administration's top diplomat also urged Chinese officials to use their influence with North Korea to keep the communist country from taking any provocative actions that might disrupt a summit of world leaders set for South Korea next month.
Clinton's main goal, though, was to seek Chinese help in lowering tensions across East Asia and she proposed hosting a three-way meeting between the U.S., …
Israeli settlers blocked roads, scuffled with police and pelted officers with eggs on Sunday, in the most aggressive display of resistance yet to the government's ban on new housing construction in West Bank settlements.
Trying to calm the tensions, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the pain his order has caused to the settlers. But he said the freeze was necessary to demonstrate that Israel is serious about seeking peace, and he criticized the Palestinians for rejecting the gesture.
Netanyahu announced the 10-month halt in most West Bank constucio ltelat onh n n ttmp t rstrtpecetaks hih broke down a year ago.
The settlement freeze …
Marty Schiene of Naperville was at the top of his game when hewon consecutive Illinois Opens in 1991 and 1992, then earned hisplaying privileges on the PGA Tour the next season.
That hot streak didn't last long, but Schiene may have starteda new one Thursday when he shot a course-record 5-under-par 67 in thefirst round of the 47th lIllinois Open at Fox Bend in Oswego.
Schiene had five birdies in a seven-hole stretch in taking aone-stroke lead over three struggling touring pros - Gary March ofArlington Heights, Kurt Wittek of Park Ridge and Jerry Smith ofTaylorville - and Wilmette Golf Club assistant Jamie Locke.Defending champion Mark Hensby is another stroke …
"The Soldier Is The Focus Of Everything We Do"
Introduction
"These are exciting times at the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). As part of the new Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), TARDEC is leading the Army in developing cutting-edge vehicle and vehicle support system technologies for the Objective Force by working with partners in industry, academia, and other Army research centers," said TARDEC Director Dr. Richard E. McClelland. Echoing Dr. McClelland's statement, the 1,100 associates at TARDEC are working on programs that are propelling the Army into the Objective Force.
TARDEC's …
Five years ago this month, Paul Wolfowitz, then the U.S. Defense Department's second-ranking official, dropped in on this northern Iraqi city to take its temperature. He walked the streets, chatted with locals and came to a quick conclusion: The people here had grown impatient with post-invasion chaos.
"The biggest problem is people need jobs," Wolfowitz told an accompanying reporter, adding, "Some people (Iraqis) think that because we're the United States, we can fix things right away. We can't."
It seems he was right on both counts.
Lack of employment was a problem here in the earliest days of the post-invasion period, …
BANKING
* Justin Heindl has joined the staff of the Poca Valley Bank asthe compliance officer. He has more than six years of bankingexperience. Heindl earned a bachelor's degree from Concord Collegeand has earned the Certified Community Bank Compliance Officerdesignation.
* Nichole Janick and Bridget Pratt have joined the staff of TheFirst State Bank, Barboursville. Janick is the bank's new mortgagelending accounts manager in the Mortgage Operations Department.Pratt is the assistant manager of the branch in the HuntingtonKroger store.
GOVERNMENT
* Jamie Smith has joined the staff of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., as the senator's communications …
