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If you take stock in charms, then a nondescript white building positioned between Mustang Sally's Lounge and Fatt Boyz in Moraine could be the luckiest place in the region on Thursday nights.
Hundreds of charms -- scarlet Ohio State University bears, faux crystal pyramids, plastic four-leaf clover clappers and more trolls than you can swing a fairy at -- sit in front of bingo computers and paper bingo boards dotted by red, orange, green and even deep purple dabber ink at Heights Bingo, 3578 Kettering Blvd.
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For more than a decade, Vancouver has been waiting for a cant miss opportunity to craft a top-shelf waterfront development.
The city has sampled the popularity of waterfront restaurants, the success of waterfront condominiums and the heavy use of the waterfront trail.
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At the time, it didn't seem dumb," said Karen Crawford, in the breezy tone of someone who has been mercifully absolved of the consequences of a very bad decision. "I wonder how many people in America did the same thing.
Two years ago, Crawford and her husband, Dennis Kelly, moved from their log house in Hancock, Md., to a renovated 1929 farmhouse nearby, which they bought for $375,000. They put their old house, which they owned outright, on the market, planning to pay for the new one with proceeds from the sale. But the real estate market cooled, and the house sat unsold.
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As parents anxiously await the start of another school year and a new teacher for their child, two major national studies remind us that the single most important factor in a student's achievement is the quality of his or her teacher.
Reports by both the National Council on Teacher Quality (Increasing the Odds, 2005) and the New Teacher Project (The Widget Effect, 2009) concur in this finding, which probably surprises no one. Who does not remember a teacher who transformed their attitude about school and, in the process, their life?
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Overview
The recent case of Police v Jones, Police v Ravesi [2008] SAMC 62 confirms that poker involves skill and is not merely a game of chance. Al...
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LeROY - Now and then, a joyful howl rises from the bunco table. Someone has rolled three sixes, a "bunco.
Now and then, there comes a moan. Someone rolled a one, two and three. That resets a score at zero.
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Jake Simmons smiles easily and often these days. That, in itself, is a major triumph.
The 23-year-old Rochester native has dozens of reasons to rail against the world. He lived nearly every inner-city cliche plus experienced a series of events that would derail most people.
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Poker is per se a game of chance under the statutory definition. Thus, the fact that players were not required to purchase chips, and no money otherwise changed hands, was irrelevant to the determination that the permit holder was operating a game of chance on permit premises.
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The SPORTING NEWS obtained the list of players who were taken off one team's...
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Big Butler Fair - Cover story