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The Leon County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate a robbery that occurred Saturday at the IGA store, 9019 Woodville Highway. The robbery occurred about 10 p.m. when two men with handguns approached two people as they were leaving the store and demanded money. The victims had no money, but the armed men made them go back into the store. The men stole cash and some items from the store and left. No one was injured. A deputy and his dog tracked the robbers for about 20 yards and then discovered a fresh set of tire tracks. One man was wearing a black ski mask, and the other had on a blue bandanna. Anyone with information can call LCSO at 922-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 574-8477. Teen charged with making false emergency calls: A 13-year-old Fairview Middle School student has been charged with making false 911 calls involving the Leon County Sheriff's Office and the Tallahassee Police Department, LCSO spokesman Rob Reisinger said Monday.
KCS leader a candidate for other jobs
Little, 52, was hired as Kokomo-Center superintendent in July 2001, at a salary of $100,000. Since his arrival in Kokomo, all three of his children have graduated from Kokomo High School.Little has a three-year contract that expires June 30, 2011, and the board has always voted to extend it an additional year each June. His annual salary is $127,000.Board member Joe Dunbar said this is not the first time Little has been considered for jobs in other districts."Certainly he's deserving of any kind of promotion he might receive. We would miss his leadership," Dunbar said. Dunbar was not on the school board when Little was hired, but had worked with him when Little was director of elementary education for the Kokomo-Center Schools, from 1993 to 1996. Dunbar served as director of secondary education during that time.He said Little's strengths as an educational leader are many."He's ethical, he's honest, he's a good [public relations] person.
Gearing up for spring? Some fish are already biting
The calendar is inching toward that day when the weather and opportunity come together for the first fishing trip of 2008. In the meantime, we sort through the news bits that have crossed my desk in recent days. Here's something interesting. The saugers are reported to be biting down on the Ohio River. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife communications officer Jamey Graham e-mailed an advisory from her Akron office indicating the action was outstanding. “Anglers are hammering sauger," she said. White jig are recommended. Tim Stevens, the division's field officer in Jefferson County, reported that the action has been good around the New Cumberland and Pike Island locks and dams, as well as creek mouths' murky-to-clear-water breaks. Stevens said that in addition to the saugers, some nice walleyes also are hitting.
Myers will start Phillies’ opener
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Brett Myers will be the Phillies' opening-day starter on March 31 against the Washington Nationals at Citizens Bank Park. Cole Hamels will pitch Game 2 against the Nationals. Though Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said today that Myers was chosen for matchup purposes, it wouldn't be surprising if the club awarded Myers the start for loyalty reasons. The Phils moved Myers, last year's opening-day starter, from the rotation into the bullpen early last season. Myers fell in love with the closer's role, but the Phillies returned him to the rotation this spring after acquiring closer Brad Lidge in a trade with the Houston Astros. Hamels went 15-5 with a 3.39 ERA last season, his first full season in the majors. Myers won a career-best 14 games as a starter in 2003.
With petrol at $2 a litre, life's tough for motorists
But from April, it jumped thrice to reach $1.840 in July. It climbed to $2.030 last week. This surge in petrol prices brought on by rising crude oil prices - which reached a record of US$98.62 (S$143.11) per barrel last week - has forced some motorists to re-think the way they use their cars. Of the 30 motorists with whom The Sunday Times spoke, more than half said they avoid making unnecessary car trips. Ms Huang Li Min, 29, a tutor, said that, instead of driving, she now takes a 10-minute walk to the provision shop near her Ang Mo Kio flat. Sales executive Alan Ang spends 10 minutes every morning planning his route before leaving his house in Toa Payoh. He makes at least four trips a day to see his clients. The 31-year-old, who reckons he saves $20 monthly by planning his journeys, said: 'I'll try and schedule all the meetings in one area around the same time.
Death of a GIANT
Instead, he borrowed some money from a friend and emigrated to Saudi Arabia in search of a better life. There, Hariri started off as a mathematics teacher in Jeddah, then became an auditor for an engineering firm before setting up his own subcontracting company, CICONEST, in 1969. CICONEST made good money during the Saudi construction bubble that accompanied the oil boom of the 1970s, building hospitals, hotels and residential palaces for the Saudi royal family. Hariri was able to build and deliver the Massara Hotel in Taif in a record-breaking six months, which endeared him to the Saudi royals, who granted him citizenship in 1978. In the late 1970s, with an increase in his cashflow, he purchased Oger, the famed French construction company, and went on to become a favorite companion of King Fahd, who had assumed the Saudi throne in 1982.
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