| Council nixes zone change
LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council voted down a zoning change 7-2 Tuesday that would have allowed Mello Joy Coffee to build a new corporate headquarters, distribution facility and coffee roasting plant on Moss Street. Also Tuesday, as part of Black History Month, the council recognized the first black elected officials in Lafayette Parish. Mello Joy Coffee was seeking to rezone the property from general business to light industrial so that the coffee roasting plant would be allowed. The property is just south of Interstate 10, with Schilling Distribution on one side and a neighborhood on the other. A private school’s property line is about 300 feet away. The presence of that neighborhood is what many councilmen said drove their decision not to allow the zoning change.
West Virginians hollering about horror-film casting
She told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Monday that the announcement was not meant to stereotype people from West Virginia. "We tried to word it in a way that's not offensive," she told the newspaper. "I hope it's not an offensive thing. It's not meant to be a generalization about everyone in West Virginia. That's why we put that it's in a 'holler' in the mountains." The company's Web site, however, specifies the scene as a "West Virginia holler." The casting call also prompted criticism from U.S. Reps. Shelley Moore Capito and Nick Rahall, both of West Virginia; U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Cecil E. Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers union. "Why must it be automatically assumed by the surgically enhanced 'beautiful people' who populate Hollywood that those who live in the hills and hollows of places like West Virginia are all afflicted with physical abnormalities?" Roberts asked.
Gators now atop Rivals.com’s rankings
You do realize they've sent more players in the first round of the NFL draft than UGA. Have you looked at the Rivals rankings since 2000? They recruited better than UGA, just because they record doesn't show it, doesn't mean they haven't been getting good players. These rankings have some meaning, but look at VT, kansas and other schools that you don't see recruit "well" .
Advance ID's `Tiny Chip' Can Make a Difference in Protecting from ...
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American Sports
The Dodger Stadium location made the young Angels more prominent and therefore helped make the Johnny Grant parties even more special. Chance's offerings would be especially hard to deal with the day after those parties. Houk had a temper. His face would puff up and get red, his cheeks - already bulging from an incessant tobacco plug - bulging. He got like that when his authority was challenged, especially by young players or upstarts accusing the Yankees of treating them unfairly, but he especially blew up when arguing with umpires. As a player, he was always bandaged up from some fight. He and teammate Hank Bauer - a gruff ex-Marine - were cut out of the same cloth. Houk's wife, Betty extracted a promise to pay her the same amount as the fines he received for being thrown out of games.
After 63 Years of Marriage the Davises Offer Their Secrets
Marjory and Richard "Dick" Davis have beat the odds and then some, specifically; the marriage odds. This lovely Bristol Mills couple has been married and devoted to each other for 63 years, having celebrated their landmark anniversary on Jan. 30.
What's their secret to a long and happy marriage? "Keep out of your wife's hair," said Dick with a huge smile. "Respect and consideration," countered Marjory.
According to U.S. statistics, the divorce rate is dropping, but the average first marriage lasts only about seven years, and only about five percent of couples even reach the 50-year anniversary mark; fewer still are together after 63 years.
The lively Davis couple lives in a beautiful circa 1760 antique cape, made cozy and warm by a center chimney wood stove.
Police departments in Pierce County battle gangs with team approach
Last year, the Tacoma Police Department gang unit arrested 1,193 people, collected 65 guns, confiscated $78,560 in cash and took hundreds of grams and pills of illicit drugs off the street. Yet, gangs remain a force in the city and the surrounding area. "It's kind of building up everywhere," Fife Police Chief Brad Blackburn said recently. Investigators say gang-motivated violence left three people wounded outside McCabe's American Music Cafe in October, two men dead and one wounded in Lakewood in October and an innocent bystander dead at an East Side bar in August. In the past 90 days, Fife police handled an arson, arrested a teen who pointed a gun at a classmate and investigated an armed robbery at a hotel during which an employee was pistol-whipped and shot at.
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