Joseph Ngwenya scored his second goal in the 85th minute to give the Houston Dynamo a 2-1 win over Pachuca on Thursday night in the first game of SuperLiga's Group A.
Ngwenya's header from the left of the box made it just inside the near post off a Corey Ashe free kick to give Houston a 2-1 lead in the 85th minute and a leg up toward advancing to the knockout round …
Changes slight since West Pullman LSC fires principal
Almost two weeks after the Local School Council of West Pullman Elementary School voted unanimously to relieve Principal Jonadab Omeke of his duties, conditions at the far South Side school remain mostly unchanged, parents said.
Outraged teachers there have complained about hazardous conditions in the 107-year-old building, inadequate supplies of textbooks in nearly all courses and at all levels in the kindergarten through 8th grade school and of a pattern of misogyny on the part of Omeke.
During its Nov. 14 meeting, LSC Chair Felicia Hayes announced the vote as an action taken against Omeke, now in his 17th month …
The Tennessee Titans want a Nevada judge to quash a lawsuit seeking damages for a strip club employee paralyzed in a triple shooting that followed a fracas involving suspended NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones.
A judge is due Wednesday to hear arguments by an attorney for the team who contends the Titans had nothing to do with Jones going to the Minxx Gentleman's Club last Feb. 19, and that the team doesn't have enough ties to Nevada to establish jurisdiction for the lawsuit.
It would be "unreasonable" to require the team to defend itself in Las Vegas against a case by the paralyzed man, Tommy Urbanski, and his wife, lawyer Nathaniel Hannaford …
Police have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a crash lefttwo teenage women seriously injured.
The two 17-year-olds were left unconscious after their car leftthe A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road near Pitcaple.
They were taken under police escort to Aberdeen Royal Infirmaryafter the crash on Saturday at 2pm.
A Grampian Police spokesman said: "We would also like to speak toanyone who may have seen a red Vauxhall Corsa which was travellingwestwards on the A96 between Inverurie and Inveramsay Bridge."
The car is thought to have struck a tree …
Agriculture conservation funds totaling $200 million are available to U.S. farmers as specified in the farm bill passed earlier this year. Under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the government shares the costs of managing manure and farmland runoff. "These additional funds will enable farmers and ranchers to enhance and …
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Pakistan's legislature unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI. Lebanon's top Shiite cleric demanded an apology. And in Turkey, the ruling party likened the pontiff to Hitler and Mussolini and accused him of reviving the mentality of the Crusades.
Across the Islamic world Friday, Benedict's remarks on Islam and jihad in a speech in Germany unleashed a torrent of rage that many fear could burst into violent protests like those that followed publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
By citing an obscure Medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," Benedict inflamed Muslim passions and …
Crystal-studded boots that Michael Jackson intended to wear on his planned comeback tour fetched ⁈ ($14,650) at a celebrity fundraiser chaired by his sister, Janet.
The charity event, held on the sidelines of Milan Fashion Week, attracted such fashion luminaries as Donatella Versace and model Linda Evangelista, as well as rapper and producer Kanye West.
Organizers say the event late Monday netted a total of $1.1 million (⁈0) for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), a nonprofit organization that supports HIV/AIDS research.
The event included a charity dinner in a central Milan palace and continued into the early hours of …
