Westinghouse to battle Rufus King of Milwaukee

Call it the high school basketball battle of Interstate 94 or the showdown of the cities by Lake Michigan or the City of the Big Shoulders going against the guys from Cheeseland.

Whatever the name, two of the nation's top high school boys basketball teams will collide when the Warriors of Westinghouse High School travel north to Milwaukee to take on Rufus King High School.

The game is set for Dec. 21 at Rufus King. The varsity game will start at 7:00 p.m. while the sophomore game gets underway at 5:30 p.m.

Head coach Quentin Dillard's defending city champion Westinghouse Warriors are off to a 1-1 start after losing to Von Steuben at the pre-season Blue Cross /Blue …

US mine where 12 died to close for good in '09

International Coal Group has decided to abandon the Sago Mine in West Virginia, where 12 men died after a methane gas explosion nearly three years ago.

ICG stopped producing coal from the mine in March 2007, but kept it on idled status. On Friday, the Scott Depot-based coal producer announced it's going to seal the mine permanently early next year. A …

Sky-high skirmish in no-smoking war

You may remember the American Cancer Society's Nov. 20 "GreatAmerican Smoke-Out," when millions of U.S. smokers tried to kick thehabit.

Nov. 20 also marked the last day of another attempted"smoke-out" - by a major airline.

The Great American Smoke-Out was considered a success. But amonth-long attempt by Continental Airlines to get its passengers tokick the habit may have gone up in smoke. The Continental experiencetells us a lot about smokers, the tobacco lobby and how airlinesapproach the problem.

As many airline executives admit, it's not easy to ban smoking.There is an ongoing hostile climate between those who smoke aloft andthose who don't. Thus, …

Snapshot Exhibit on View in Washington

WASHINGTON - Say Cheese! There's a chance your picture may be hanging in the National Gallery of Art.

The images could have come straight out of the family photo album - birthday parties, farm life, road trips and soldiers at work (and play) during World War II. About 200 anonymous pictures make up the new exhibit "The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978." It's the first show of snapshot photography at the National Gallery of Art and the first major exhibit to study the evolution of such imagery in America.

Curators wanted to chronicle the development of amateur photography from the invention of the Kodak camera in 1888 through changes in technology, styles and …

A timeline of Vladimir Putin's eight years as president

Major events in President Vladimir Putin's rise to power and eight years in office:

_ August 1999: President Boris Yeltsin appoints KGB veteran Vladimir Putin as acting prime minister. Putin vows to restore order to the restive southern republics.

_ September 1999: Almost 300 people killed in apartment bombings in Moscow and other cities, attacks blamed on Chechen separatists. Putin orders the bombing of the Chechen capital, Grozny, leading to the second Chechen war.

_ Dec. 1999: Yeltsin announces resignation on New Year's Eve; Putin becomes acting president.

_ March 2000: Putin scores convincing victory in Russia's first democratic …

Ammons, Albert (C.)

Ammons, Albert (C.), boogie-woogie pianist, father of Gene Ammons; b. Chicago, Sept. 23, 1907; d. Chicago, Dec. 2, 1949. Ammons was a leader of the boogie-woogie movement for solo piano from the late 1930s on, often paired in concert and on recordings with Pete Johnson. He began playing piano at age ten, and later worked as a soloist before touring with territory bands, including François Moseley's Louisiana Stompers (summer 1929), William Barbee and His Headquarters (parts of 1930 and 1931), and drummer Louis Banks and His Chesterfield Orch. (1930–34). Ammons headed his own group at several Chicago clubs from 1934 to 1938, making his first records …

Che Guevara fuera del Parque Central

Hablando con la Verdad

Siempre hemos afirmado que los malos no triunfan sino donde los buenos se cruzan de brazos. En funci�n de tal concepto el resultado obtenido por organizaciones como Cuba Independiente y Democr�tica (CID) de California y la Uni�n de Presos Pol�ticos del Norte del pa�s quienes enviaron carias a las autroridades de la ciudad de New York, y a las autoridades electas m�s representativos del Congreso de los EEUU donde protestaron la infamia al tiempo que el insulto inaudito a la libertad, de plantar en el parque Central de New York, la estatua del mercenario y asesino argentino-cubano, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, apodado El Che. Quien es tristemente recordado en …