| Schall enters race for the 5th
If we are going to leave our grandchildren a better place to live, Congress must spend more time representing the voters and less time fundraising, he said.
Schall described himself as a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church, and he said he supports the churchs pro-life and anti-gambling social principles. He and his wife, Mary, are actively involved in mission work with the church, and they have served on many mission teams to Western Pennsylvania, the Gulf coast, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, he said.
The 5th U.S. Congressional District includes Armagh, Decatur, Derry and Granville townships in Mifflin County, as well as Burnham, Juniata Terrace and Lewistown boroughs. The district also includes Fayette Township in Juniata County, portions of Clearfield, Crawford, Tioga, Venango and Warren counties, and all of Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: Station Casinos buyout closes Gambling ...
Construction continues Tuesday on the site of Aliante Station. The $675 million hotel-casino project in North Las Vegas, a Station Casinos joint-venture, is scheduled to open in December 2008.
Photos by Ronda Churchill
The stock of now private Station Casinos, which is building Aliante Station, above, will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
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Rain, wind bring more blackouts to parts of Chico
With umbrellas in hand, roommates and best friends Lauren Engel, 19, (left) and Leanne DeBella, 19, both from the Lake Tahoe area, tour the Chico State University campus Sunday during a rain shower. Both freshmen, Engel will begin her first semester at Chico State today, while DeBella starts her second. There's a chance of rain showers under mostly cloudy skies today for the first day of spring semester classes, according for forecasters with the National Weather Service.(Ty Barbour/Enterprise-Record)<p class='dotPhoto'>All Chico E-R photos are available <a href='http://chicoer.mycapture.com/'>here</a>.</p> .
Growth and development
Shelbyville's Career Center will be seeing more job seekers due to the closing of the state's Fayetteville office. The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development announced Friday it is closing the Fayetteville Career Center effective Jan. 25... .
Homeowner sues over canal breach, alleges negligence Failure to turn ...
A woman whose home was flooded after an irrigation canal ruptured in Northern Nevada filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday against the canal's operator, local governments and home builders. Judy Kroshus alleged that developers never told her of a December 1996 flood in the Fernley area, about 35 miles east of Reno, and that local government officials did not have an adequate emergency plan in place before she took out a loan and bought a home there in 2002. Kroshus also alleged the canal operator, the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, failed to stem the flow of water during a powerful Jan. 5 storm, a failure she said contributed to the canal breach. The rupture flooded hundreds of homes. .
Campaign 2008
It's crazy," said one campaign insider. Actor Chuck Norris, who has been campaigning with Mike Huckabee, has publicly worried that McCain is too old to be president and may not live out his term if elected. His comments have long been echoed in private by other campaigns who say that McCain can't win because he looks old and thus appears to represent the past. But insiders say that Norris's comments lit a spark under McCain, who has fought back with even longer hours, more public access, and the teaming with one of his younger children. "He gets the MTV generation and I think they like him back," said another insider. "They can see the youth in his eyes and not just his white hair." more >> .
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