Crasnick: Baseball and a brother's lossThursday, July 17, 2008 @ 1:38PMMitch Canham's baseball future is as bright as the San Diego sun, as long as he can see through the clouds of the recent losses of his mother and brother, writes Jerry Crasnick.
City Council wrangles with tough issuesWednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 1:13PMJunction City Council met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, July 14. Seven citizens had ex-pressed an interest in filling the unexpired term of Alderman Place 1, created by the resignation of George Wright.
Passing fancyTuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 11:24PMWith sales of antiques down - partially due to higher gasoline prices - Jeannine Holt decided early last week to close Jeannine's Antiques
Exxon maintains it doesn't owe interestTuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 4:58PMJUNEAU -- Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting to avoid paying interest on the $507.5 million judgment the U.S. Supreme Court ordered it to pay for the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Increasingly popular caviar raises cancer concernsThursday, July 10, 2008 @ 2:47PMAs demand for paddlefish caviar has grown, health officials have become uneasy about a variety of toxins found in the eggs, including mercury, chlordane and cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. But advocates say the level of contaminants is below federal safety standards and that most consumers don't eat enough of it to suffer any ill effects.