Recently added articles from The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH):
HOME SWEET SCENTS ADD FRAGRANCE TO ROOMS AT EASY PRICES.(At Home)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Della De Lafuente, Associated Press Here are some inexpensive ways to bring fragrance into your home: Plug-In Oil Diffusers * ScentPort, a refillable, plug-in scented oil diffuser. With its sleek, modern design, the home-fragrance device created by ...
'HIGH PRAISE' FOR INCLUSION.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: William Hershey, Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS -- After toiling 12 years in politically polarized Washington, D.C., as a congressman from a rural district in southern Ohio, Democrat Ted Strickland didn't know what to expect from Ohio Republican legislative leaders when he ...
TJX TO PAY UP TO $40.9M FOR SECURITY BREACH.(Business)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press Discount retailer TJX Cos. could pay as much as $40.9 million in a settlement with Visa Inc. and Fifth Third Bancorp, the bank that processes the retailer's credit card payments, over a massive breach of customers' card data. The deal hinges on banks ...
FENDER JOINS HUNTINGTON AS SENIOR VP.(Business)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Louis A. Fender has joined Huntington Bank as senior vice president in the commercial banking group. With 28 years of banking experience, Fender previously worked at two local banks. He started his career in 1979 at the First National Bank of Cincinnati as a management trainee and he was ...
FULL-SERVICE GROCERIES SUPERMARKETS AIM TO LURE HOLIDAY SHOPPERS.(Business)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dan Sewell, Associated Press Do your holiday shopping in a grocery store? Some grocery chains, appealing to consumers' desires to save gas, money and time, are pushing that notion this season. Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., the nation's largest traditional ...
BERNANKE COMMENTS GOOD NEWS FOR BULLS.(Business)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Wall Street closed out a volatile week and month with a comparatively mild performance Friday, ending mostly higher on encouraging words from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The major indexes ended the week with gains, but still posted ...
HOSTAGE SEIZE ENDS QUIETLY AT CLINTON OFFICE.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. -- A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and demanded to speak to the candidate during a hostage drama that dragged on for nearly six hours before he peacefully ...
DEAL REACHED ON FUEL ECONOMY.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats reached a compromise late Friday to boost automobile fuel economy by 40 percent, clearing the way for a House vote probably next week on an energy bill that Democratic leaders would like to send to President Bush before Christmas. The ...
PIPELINE PLANNED.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... JUNEAU, Alaska -- ConocoPhillips wants to build potentially the world's largest, most expensive energy facility -- a multibillion dollar natural gas pipeline running from Alaska's North Slope to ...
SHUTTLE CLEARED.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- NASA has cleared Atlantis for a Thursday launch, one month after the last space shuttle flight and a flurry of work since then getting the international space station ready for a new laboratory. Shuttle managers confirmed the launch date following a ...
TROOPER INCIDENT.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah trooper who used a Taser to subdue a stubborn motorist who was walking away from him during a traffic stop felt threatened and acted reasonably, state officials said Friday. Trooper Jon Gardner remains on leave, primarily for his safety, after numerous ...
NEW FORM OF EBOLA.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... GENEVA -- A new form of the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in an outbreak in western Uganda that has so far killed 16 people, the World Health Organization said Friday. Tests conducted by a national lab in Uganda and confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
STUDENT REMAINS JAILED.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... PERUGIA, Italy -- A University of Washington student and her Italian ex-boyfriend --both held in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old British student -- must remain in jail, a court ruled Friday. Amanda Marie Knox, of Seattle, and Raffaele Sollecito have been jailed ...
BUSH SEEKS CUTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by the Associated Press. ...
SUDANESE DEMAND DEATH OF TEACHER.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mohamed Osman, Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Clad in the green of Islam and his hair in dreadlocks, the angry young protester raised the sword over his head and proclaimed that the West should know the Prophet Muhammad cannot be insulted. Gillian ...
DOZENS HURT IN AMTRAK WRECK.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press CHICAGO -- When the Amtrak train carrying insurance agent Coert Vanderhill and his wife hit a stretch of tracks on Chicago's South Side, they knew they were nearing the end of the ride from Grand Rapids, Mich. They were about 15 minutes from ...
U.S. WITHDRAWS UN RESOLUTION ENDORSING ISRAELI PEACE PACT.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- In an about face, the United States on Friday withdrew a U.N. resolution endorsing this week's agreement by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008, apparently after Israel objected ....
A SPEECH BESHEAR MIGHT CONSIDER.(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Neikirk Tattered and splattered, abandoned on a side street in Frankfort and just waiting for the next wind to blow it into Kentucky River to bob among the milk jugs and other cultural flotsam, was this -- a speech, written for an inauguration but abandoned. ...
EDITOR'S GUIDE TO COMICS.(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Keith Herrell It has been well documented (boy, has it ever) that newspapers are facing hard times. But it had not occurred to me until recently that not all is well in comic-strip land, either. I guess I should have been able to figure it out. After all, if ...
SAVING A DEMOCRACY.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Venezuelans go to the polls Sunday to vote in a referendum that would effectively decide whether their country becomes a Cuban-style dictatorship with their current strongman president, Hugo Chavez, playing the part of Fidel Castro. Chavez is proposing 69 amendments to the ...
