The federal government says it takes an average of 34 months to approve or deny a patent, but one Wausau businessman is not letting that delay keep him from developing his innovation. Read More
County Limerick trainer Michael Hourigan left his local track with the feature race of the day after Dancing Tornado won the Guinness Greenmount Park Novice Chase. Read More
Feb. 10, 2009, was just another day. Read More
NEW YORK Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. Read More
"There are times when it's been real bad, nights when you didn't want to go out on the court and play, where you thought if you lost one more game you were going to go crazy. But I would find a reason to play every night, as hard as I can. And the reason isn't complicated. It's just competitiveness. It's wanting to compete and NOT wanting to get embarrassed. Sometimes that would be my only mind-set: I am going to do whatever I can to make sure we don't get embarrassed tonight. Make sure we don't get blown out." Read More
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman turned the middling cop drama "A Steady Rain" into the hottest fall ticket in town. Read More
Nine professional, locally produced plays opened on St. Louis stages during the first week of December. Read More
Economic development and education-related legislation are among issues that will be dealt with, along with the budget, in the upcoming General Assembly session. Read More
A former vice president of the United States, Dan Quayle, once opined that "the future will be better tomorrow." Read More
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Saturday relations with China is full of vigor and the two sides are expected to ink a series of economic and trade pacts during his upcoming visit to Beijing. Read More