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UPI almanac for Monday, May 28, 2007.

The planet Mercury dims this month, but can still be glimpsed below Venus at dusk. Our sister planet continues to brighten, to magnitude -4.2, and is moving toward the constellation Cancer, the Crab.

Senior citizens’ menu announced The Belmont Center for Senior Citizens, 615 E. Mercury St., serves lunches during the week. The center asks that people planning to have lunch call the office at 723-7773 by 9 a.m. Meals cost $4.25 each, but any donation is acceptable.

Freddy Bryant knew his Memorial Day weekend would be a moneymaker when the mercury shot past 80 degrees on the Manasquan boardwalk. Melissa Shepherd knew it when drivers who couldn't find parking spaces near the Seaside Heights beaches ditched their cars 30 minutes away and hiked to the sand.

When a student carrying an old barometer accidentally dropped it in a high school classroom in December, "all hell broke loose," according to Larry Peterson, superintendent of the Eden Valley-Watkins School District near St. Cloud. The mercury that spilled out of the barometer brought state pollution control workers and a hazardous waste crew. School was canceled for a few days, an older spill of ...

The mercury soared Sunday to 36.1 degrees in Inukai, Oita Prefecture, and record highs for May were recorded from Okinawa to Kanagawa Prefecture, the Meteorological Agency said. Read more ...

By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. May 27--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.

By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. May 27--Zuckerberg is chief executive of Palo Alto social-networking site Facebook, which has chosen to go it alone as it competes with MySpace and other Internet giants.

After days of sizzling sun, Hamilton is cooler at 21C on Sunday. Rain is forecast for later in the afternoon and the mercury will fall further to 10C.

By GENE CURTIS World Staff Writer Jerrie Cobb had the right stuff but was the wrong sex. She passed the same physical and psychological tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts -- America's original spacemen selected in 1959 -- and was expected to become the first woman to fly into space.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

Jamshedpur, May 27: Heat wave continued to affect normal life here as the mercury raise to about 45 degrees Celsius today recording the year's hottest day.

Associated Press - May 27, 2007 11:54 AM ET MACON, Ga. (AP) - Georgia's Board of Natural Resources is scheduled to vote on adopting strict mercury guidelines in June in an effort to restrict...

The Associated Press - MACON, Ga. Georgia's Board of Natural Resources is scheduled to vote on adopting strict mercury guidelines in June in an effort to restrict the amount of the toxic metal that power plants can release in the air.

WITH India sweltering through torrid summer temperatures that send the mercury soaring each day, the country's inveterate punters have reportedly bet a staggering $900 million on the date when the relief-bringing monsoon will arrive and how much rainfall there will be.

With smoke from nearby forest and brush fires clouding the International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., I retreated to my hotel room to breathe filtered air and write this confession.

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The new vision includes R&B music, professional business dress and no clientele younger than 25. A Virginia Beach nightclub owner has agreed to buy Crabbers nightclub and the adjoining Hampton Bay Plaza and Suites on West Mercury Boulevard for $6.4 million and transform it into an upscale club for people 25 and older.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

Do you feel like you're in the hot seat? Pluto is the intimidating interrogator asking the questions, and Mercury's sweating it out. Will willful Pluto squeeze a confession out of Mercury? This can play out in our relationships, in the form of an unhelpful obsession or resistance to an idea.

_ The mercury soared to 36.1 C in Inukai, Oita Prefecture, on Sunday, while temperatures hit record highs for May in other parts of the Japanese archipelago from Okinawa to Kanagawa prefectures, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Today is Sunday, May 27, the 147th day of 2007 with 218 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include financier Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1794; social reformer Amelia Bloomer, for whom the undergarment was named, in 1818; poet Julia Ward Howe, ...

The Yolo County Sheriff's Department is searching for a man suspected of killing a female acquaintance Saturday afternoon.

UPI almanac for Sunday, May 27, 2007.

For the first time ever, Georgia is set to limit the amount of mercury that power plants can release into the air.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

A WALTHAMSTOW artist has been highly commended in the coveted Mercury Art Prize. David Sullivan showed his winning piece, a painting of a Derbyshire miner's jazz band, at the Changing Room Gallery in Aveling Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, last spring, for the 80th anniversary of the General Strike.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston on Saturday.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston today.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

After declining to file charges in a reported gang rape at a De Anza College baseball player's birthday party, prosecutor Dolores Carr writes in the Mercury News that it would be impossible to prove the case.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets. Taurasi was 11 of 18 from the field, making six 3-pointers. She had four assists.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

DELHIITES are all set for a pleasant Sunday as light showers on Saturday evening brought the mercury down. The maximum temperature in the Capital was 38.4 degrees celsius, three degrees below normal and the weatherman has forecast the possibility of rain or thundershowers for Sunday. The Met Department recorded Saturday s rain at 0.9 mm. The rain was caused by the western disturbances, which have ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets. Taurasi was 11 of 18 from the field, making six 3-pointers. She had four assists.

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Kolkata, May 26: A Heat wave killed two people in drought prone Purulia district as extreme humidity made life miserable in most of the districts of West Bengal as mercury level soared during the day.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets. Taurasi was 11 of 18 from the field, making six 3-pointers. She had four assists.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston today.

A WALTHAMSTOW artist has been highly commended in the coveted Mercury Art Prize. David Sullivan showed his winning piece, a painting of a Derbyshire miner's jazz band, at the Changing Room Gallery in Aveling Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, last spring, for the 80th anniversary of the General Strike.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston today.

Mercury Real Estate Advisors LLC, a Greenwich, Conn. investor that sought to have Barnwell Industries Inc. sell off Big Island land, has cut its ownership stake in the Hono-lulu-based company significantly in share sales this week.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

Diana Taurasi scored 37 points, including 10 during a key three-minute stretch of the third quarter Friday night, to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the visiting Houston Comets.

SCOTS are set to shiver over the bank holiday weekend as the May chill continues. There is even a forecast for snow on high ground above 1500 feet. The mercury will plunge to a bracing 9C (48F) on the east coast, with the west only slightly warmer.

The birthday cake rolled into the locker room, with "In Penny We Trust" iced across the top. Penny Taylor couldn't eat the whole thing, even if it was for her 26th birthday.

The Mercury's to-do list included a mission and a milestone. Milestone accomplished. Diana Taurasi collected her 2,000th WNBA career point and then some without stopping to take a bow or even a breather Friday night at US Airways Center.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

Today is Saturday, May 26, the 146th day of 2007 with 219 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include English Gen. John Churchill, ancestor of statesman Winston Churchill, in 1650; entertainer Al Jolson in 1886; actors John Wayne (born ...

Today is Saturday, May 26, the 146th day of 2007 with 219 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

Diana Taurasi scored 37 points, including 10 during a key three-minute stretch of the third quarter Friday night, to lead the Phoenix Mercury...

Ah, Memorial Day. A time when the mercury begins to rise -- and so does the intensity of the fall election season.

PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets. Taurasi was 11 of 18 from the field, making six 3-pointers. She had four assists.

A new government-corporate program could remove a significant amount of mercury from Idaho, a state already concerned that the substance is polluting waterways, contaminating fish and jeopardizing public health. The Nati

Diana Taurasi collected her 2,000th WNBA career point Friday night at US Airways Center in the Mercury's 111-85 victory against the Houston Comets.

The Comets gave up 61 points in the second half and looked weak on transition defense while losing 111-85 to the host Phoenix Mercury. Phoenix got 42 of its points off the fast break.

BOISE - A new joint government-corporate program could remove a significant amount of mercury from Idaho, a state already concerned that the substance is polluting waterways, contaminating fish and jeopardizing public health.

Associated Press - May 26, 2007 12:55 AM ET PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets.

PHOENIX (AP) - Diana Taurasi scored 37 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets. Taurasi was 11 of 18 from the field, making six 3-pointers. She had four assists.

PHOENIX -- Diana Taurasi scored 37 points, including 10 during a key three-minute stretch of the third quarter Friday night, to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the...

SCOTS are set to shiver over the bank holiday weekend as the May chill continues. There is even a forecast for snow on high ground above 1500 feet. The mercury will plunge to a bracing 9C (48F) on the east coast, with the west only slightly warmer.

Diana Taurasi scored 37 points, including 10 during a key three-minute stretch of the third quarter Friday night, to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 111-85 victory over the Houston Comets.

A Bethany, Okla., woman was injured Friday evening in Taney County when her vehicle ran off the roadway and struck several trees, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Emily Beer, 21, was driving a 1993 Mercury on M 76 two miles east of Branson when her vehicle ran off the road, according to the patrol's report. Beer was reportedly wearing her seat belt and was taken to Skaggs Hospital in Branson.

The Mercury Mariner gets a face lift for 2008 and looks bigger from the front now with this new approach, but it's still easy to get into, so it fits quite well in the compact sport utility segment.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

THE Tricity witnessed a dust storm, accompained by mild rain, this evening. It was a welcome relief to the residents, who have been reeling under the effect of heat and soaring temperature. Heavy dust storms with speed ranging from 46 kms to 65 kms per hour was witnessed around 3 pm, forcing commuters to stop their vehicles as it also effected visiblity. The storm, accompained by light rain ...

By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho May 25--BOISE -- A new joint government-corporate program could remove a significant amount of mercury from Idaho, a state already concerned that the substance is polluting waterways, contaminating fish and jeopardizing public health.

Animal Help Foundation has rescued close to 300 dehydration-hit birds, langurs this April IT is not just humans who face a hard time battling the ever-soaring mercury levels in summer. Animals and birds, also part of the urban set-up, too, find it hard to survive in summer, mainly due to lack of drinking water sources. With the rise in temperature, black kites, pigeons, crows, mynahs, parakeets ...

In the burning heat of summer, it s the night that brings respite with the cooling illumination of the stars. This June, the night brings an ensemble of celestial objects with it. On the night of June 2, all the planets of the solar system will be visible. The inferior planets, those that lie between the Earth and the Sun, Mercury and Venus, will be visible for longer than usual. Dr N Rathnasree, ...

About three dozen students and several adults at Waverly Elementary-Middle School had to be decontaminated Friday after the release of a small amount of mercury.

PORTLAND (AP) -- Those getting an early start to the holiday weekend got a treat Friday with the mercury climbing into the 90s in parts of Maine.

Waverly Middle School has now been closed because of a Mercury spill.

A young California woman posed as a Stanford University student for months, living in dorms, eating in dining halls and pretending to worry about exams.The woman, who graduated last year from Troy High School in Orange County, even maintained a Web page where she told her family and friends about the trials of freshman year, The San Jose Mercury News reported.Exactly 68 days left until SUUUMER ...

It felt a lot more like midsummer than the end of May. On Friday afternoon, Boston broke the high temperature record for this date. By 3:00 p.m., it was 92 degrees in the city -- one degree above the mark set in 1932. It was even hotter west of Boston -- where the mercury hit 93 in Taunton by midday Friday.

30 from Waverly Elementary/Middle to be decontaminated, school says Baltimore firefighters are at the scene of a mercury spill at Waverly Elementary/Middle School.

Baltimore firefighters are at the scene of a mercury spill at Waverly Elementary-Middle School. Mike Hellgren Reports On The Mercury Spill

Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston on Saturday.

Baltimore firefighters are at the scene of a mercury spill at Waverly Elementary-Middle School.

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Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

A hot sun gave no respite to the people in North India as the region continued to sizzle under persisting warm conditions with mercury touching the 43-degree mark in Rajasthan's Churu and Sriganganagar.

Rather unflattering NASA Image of the Day We're not sure what John Glenn will make of it, but NASA's Image of the Day is currently showing a rather unflattering 1960 snap of the seven original Mercury astronauts:…

MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School students are back in school today after efforts to clean up Tuesday’s mercury spill concluded Thursday aftern...

The month of June will present the best views of Mercury and Venus for the year as both planets reach their highest points in the western evening sky at sunset.

It's still hot and humid in Hamilton on Friday. It's sizzling at 23C in the morning. The mercury is expected to climb to 29C later in the day. The UV index is at 7 or high.

GAMA 2007 service awards, presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL, recognized outstanding contributions to industry and the public interest. The 2007 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Richard Hannan, Chairman of the Board, Mercury Instruments, Inc. Werner Specht of Thomas & Betts Corp. received the GAMA Technical Service Award, and Thomas Donohue of the U.S. Chamber ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston on Saturday.

The month of June will present the best views of Mercury and Venus for the year as both planets reach their highest points in the western evening sky at sunset.

PROVIDENCE -- The state Department of Health is giving people the chance to get rid of old mercury thermometers. The department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston on Saturday.

LEESBURG — Thursday was just like any other day at Plaza Lincoln Mercury on U.S. Highway 441 in Leesburg, except for one glaring difference. Salesmen waited in rocking chairs, as is their custom, for people interested in a new automobile to roll up and peruse the lot.

Sorbent Technologies Corporation today announced that it has received another order for a power plant mercury control system.

Today is Friday, May 25, the 145th day of 2007 with 220 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

Brain melting metal madness

A Ridgedale man and a Hollister man were injured yesterday in a two-vehicle Stone County collision, Missouri Highway Patrol said. A 1997 Ford Taurus reportedly hydroplaned, crossed a center line and struck a 1997 Mercury Mountaineer headon. The crash was reported before 4 p.m. on Indian Point Road just south of Silver Dollar City. Ford driver Bernie W. Mooney, 28, of Ridgedale was taken to Cox ...

TODAY (Friday, 25 May) the Mercury launches a campaign to get Hertfordshire's air ambulance off the ground.

Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently do the reverse, pulling minute amounts of the toxic metal out of ambient air.

Stepped up patrols will accompany this weekend's sunny holiday skies to keep motorists safe. Just in time for Memorial Day, the mercury is expected to hover in the mid-80s and even push 90 this weekend.

A message to the masses from Phoenix Mercury coach Paul Westhead: The world is not coming to an end. It may have felt like it at times during Wednesday night's ugly 100-87 loss at Seattle.

In response to D Wright's letter (Council needs to do more, Mercury last week) I would like to explain to residents how to dispose of bulky items of rubbish.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

School is back on for students, teachers and administrators at Marquette High School Friday. The school's been closed for two days after authorities discovered a mercury spill on Tuesday in a few areas. Officials say everything's been cleaned up and the facility is now safe.

Today is Friday, May 25, the 145th day of 2007 with 220 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

1. "Good Directions," Billy Currington. Mercury.

On Monday, the sun moves into the first of the air signs, Gemini. Represented by the twins and ruled by quicksilver mental superstar Mercury, those born under this sign are fast-paced individuals with a predilection for communication in all its forms.

Officials in a Somerset County town anxiously waiting for the federal government to remove a stockpile of hazardous mercury said yesterday they were hopeful it will be gone some time this summer.

May 25, 2007 (Associated Press) CHICAGO - The chief executive officer of the Mercury Finance Co., the collapse of which cost investors $2 billion a decade ago, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for wire fraud and lying to a bank.

With the mercury headed into the 80s and Dalton’s Jessi Carmichael pitching at her future home field, the Bulldogs had even more factors working in their favor for Thursday’s Division IV regional semifinal against Vienna Mathews.

Hampton Police say a 36-year-old Newport News woman paid for drugs by prostituting her young daughter. They say the woman brought the girl to a hotel in the 2100 block of W. Mercury Boulevard late Friday or early Saturday.

By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

Time to get rid of those old mercury thermometers. The state health department is holding a thermometer exchange in Cranston on Saturday.

Summer vacations have set in just as the mercury is soaring higher. To beat the heat, the cash-rich city is making a dash for the cooler climes. According to city travel agents, Europe seems the favourite holiday destination, though a considerable number of people also prefer India s hills. And amidst all this holiday packing, there is also a class that prefers to spend their vacations indoors ...

In reading about the problems surrounding the disposal of energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs because of their mercury content, I was reminded of the bliss of ignorance.

By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0524-Global-warming-enlarging-San-Francisco-Bay-scientists-say Global warming enlarging San Francisco Bay, scientists say Julie Sevrens Lyons San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0524-AMD-subpoenas-Intel-s-lawyers AMD subpoenas Intel's lawyers Ryan Blitstein San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0523-Hewlett-Packard-settles-with-SEC Hewlett-Packard settles with SEC Therese Poletti San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0524-Hewlett-Packard-probe-by-SEC-is-settled Hewlett-Packard probe by SEC is settled Therese Poletti San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

Lauren Jackson is healthier than ever. So too is Seattle's offense.

AUSTRALIA'S Lauren Jackson scored 31 points to lead the Seattle Storm in setting a club record for points in a game in its 100-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury yesterday.

HOWELL --Howell High School was locked down for about 90 minutes this morning due to a mercury spill from a broken thermometer. Classes resumed about 11 a.m.

MARQUETTE — As efforts to clean up Tuesday’s mercury spill at Marquette Senior High School continue, and classes were canceled for a second day, two m...

(AP) -- The chief executive officer of the Mercury Finance Co., the collapse of which cost investors $2 billion a decade ago, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for wire fraud and lying to a bank. John Brincat, 70, who admitted he lied to disguise the company's steep losses, also was ...

Hottie Bryce Avery, a.k.a. The Rocket Summer, is ready for launch. A lot of people, understandably, are making a big stink about Dan Hunter, a.k.a. PlayRadioPlay, the shiny, happy 17-year-old local singer-songwriter whose MySpace page probably gets more hits than U2’s. (Does U2 even have a page?

It's going to feel like July in Hamilton today. Weather forecasters are predicting the mercury could hit 32, beating the old record for today of 30. The UV index is going to be 8, which is high. You should stay out of the sun between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

SEATTLE -- Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox added 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in their 100-to-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury Wednesday night.

BENTON COUNTY — As the mercury on the thermometer slowly creeps up, Benton County students are counting down the days until they are out of school. (Benton County Daily Record)

The Transmission was serviced at 65,000 miles. The A/C system went twice. The motor mounts broke at 70,000 miles. Three Alternators up to 85,000 miles.

Joe Nolette sells from a neighboring lot after the Lincoln-Mercury site in Leesburg is damaged. A day after a fire ravaged much of Joe Nolette's Plaza Lincoln-Mercury dealership, he was back selling cars.

When it comes to Onondaga Lake, science becomes a political issue. New data often sparks new pleas to regulators or government representatives. That's happening now, after scientists revealed this week that mercury is on the rise in Onondaga Lake fish.

FOND DU LAC Sponsors of the 2007 Mercury Marine National Walleye Tournament say they have adopted a wait-and-see attitude as to the implications of a deadly fish virus found in Lake Winnebago.

John Brincat Sr., 70, former chief executive officer of Mercury Finance Co., was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud investors of almost $2 billion in the 1990s. Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer levied no fine so that money can go to restitution.

Green Bay set a record high for May 23.

When it comes to Onondaga Lake, science becomes a political issue. New data often spark new pleas to regulators or government representatives. That's happening now, after scientists revealed this week that mercury is on the rise in Onondaga Lake fish.

A Springville man was killed in a one-car wreck in St. Clair County on Wednesday. State troopers identified the victim as 71-year-old James Hintson. He was driving a 1995 Mercury Marquis when the car crashed about one mile east of Springville on Alabama 174. The wreck is still under investigation.

Seattle's Lauren Jackson wanted a foul called. The referee signaled traveling. And Diana Taurasi used the situation to insert a little trash-talking.

An Idaho environmental group is calling on federal regulators to investigate a Nevada gold-mining company for allegedly tampering with its mercury emissions and underreporting them.

Today is Thursday, May 24, the 144th day of 2007 with 221 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini.

SEATTLE — Lauren Jackson scored 31 points and Betty Lennox had 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise single-game record for points in its 100-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night.

Lauren Jackson scored 31 points as Seattle cracked 100 points for the first time in their history in their 100-87 WNBA victory against the Phoenix Mercury.

In the world of corporate fraud, the name John Brincat Sr. is not as familiar as WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers or Enron's Jeffrey Skilling.

Driving along the Eisenhower Expressway about 10 p.m. on a June night in 1997, James Doyle pulled his new Jeep off the highway and used his cell phone to call 911.

SEATTLE -- Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox had 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in their 100-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night. Seattle easily covered the sprea...

Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox had 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in their 100-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday.

LAUREN Jackson scored 31 points as Seattle cracked 100 points for the first time in their history in tonight's 100-87 WNBA victory against the Phoenix Mercury.

SEATTLE - Lauren Jackson is healthier than ever. So too is Seattle's offense. Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox had 22, and the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a 100-87 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night.

Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox had 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in their 100-87 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night. Janell Burse added 13 points and a career-high 19 rebounds, just one short of Jackson's team record held by Jackson, and Sue Bird also had 13 points for the Storm (2-0). Cappie Pondexter led the Mercury ...

Two residential burglaries were reported Tuesday evening. A home in the 1000 block of West Mercury was entered sometime that day and a $400 iPod and $800 in coins were reported missing.

MONROE TWP. Without knowing how much the project will cost, the township has agreed to extend municipal water lines to Timber Lakes, where private wells tested positive for mercury about four years ago.

SEATTLE -- Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox had 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in their 100-87 victory over the Phoenix...

Associated Press - May 24, 2007 12:44 AM ET SEATTLE (AP) - Lauren Jackson scored 31 points, and Betty Lennox added 22 to help the Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game in...

Local radio station operator Lost Coast Communications Inc. has been named a finalist for the Radio Mercury Awards for Best Radio Station Produced Radio Spot.

Cassini acquired this view of Titan on April 13, 2007, following a flyby of the Mercury-sized moon. Titan's equatorial dark regions are visible in this view, along with faint, dark lineaments (linear features) in the otherwise bland-looking terrain of the north.

Hampton Police have arrested a 36-year-old Newport News woman. They say the woman brought her daughter to a hotel on the 2100 block of W. Mercury Boulevard either late Friday or early Saturday.

CHICAGO (AP) - A 10-year prison sentence was handed the chief executive officer of Mercury Finance Company, whose collapse cost investors two billion dollars a decade ago.

ABU DHABI — The monthly report of the National Authority of Meteorology in Abu Dhabi (NAMAD) is anticipating the mercury to hit 49 degrees by June.

Marquette High School will remain closed on Thursday. Officials made that decision late Wednesday afternoon. Marquette High School was closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday.

By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0523-Chip-makers-Intel-AMD-racing-for-tech-edge Chip makers Intel, AMD racing for tech edge Mark Boslet San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. May 23--Advanced Micro Devices subpoenaed arch-rival Intel's lawyers Tuesday as part of an antitrust suit, according to court filings.

By San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0523-Race-to-be-first-to-45-nanometers Race to be first to 45 nanometers San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0523-Gay-San-Jose-couple-settles-bias-case-against-adoption-site Gay San Jose couple settles bias case against adoption site Howard Mintz San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

By Elise Ackerman and Jack Davis, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0522-Google-puts-3.9-million-into-Brin-s-wife-s-biotech-start-up Google puts $3.9 million into Brin's wife's biotech start-up Elise Ackerman and Jack Davis San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. SJ-0523-Cisco-to-buy-surveillance-software-firm-BroadWare Cisco to buy surveillance software firm BroadWare Ryan Blitstein San Jose Mercury News, Calif.

The chief executive officer of the Mercury Finance Co., the collapse of which cost investors $2 billion a decade ago, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for wire fraud and lying to a bank.

CHICAGO (AP) - A 10-year prison sentence was handed the chief executive officer of Mercury Finance Company, whose collapse cost investors two billion dollars a decade ago.

Zipping through a cultural summer... By Felicia Feaster.Where the visual arts and theater are concerned, summertime can often slow down and take on a languorous syrupy rhythm in keeping with Atlanta's hothouse humidity and hellfire mercury. Galleries may scale down to reflect the summer plans of owners and visitors, but museums rev up to anticipate the tourist rush, and theater serves up a passel ...

Marquette High School remained closed Wednesday as a crew worked to decontaminate two areas that were the subject of mercury spills on Tuesday. A 15 year old student, whose name has not been released, was identified by authorities as the person who had brought the mercury to school and spilled it.

10 easy steps toward a more cultural summer... By Felicia Feaster.Where the visual arts and theater are concerned, summertime can often slow down and take on a languorous syrupy rhythm in keeping with Atlanta's hothouse humidity and hellfire mercury. Galleries may scale down to reflect the summer plans of owners and visitors, but museums rev up to anticipate the tourist rush, and theater delivers ...

Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash -- fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants -- may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently do the reverse, pulling minute amounts of the toxic metal out of ambient air.

These are the stories for Wednesday, May 23, 2007. We'll have an update on the mercury spill that happened yesterday at Marquette Senior High School. Watch your TV6 Early News tonight to find out what officials are saying caused the spill to happen.

Marquette School Superintendent Jon Hartwig announced late Tuesday that Marquette High School will be closed Wednesday, following the discovery of a mercury spill in an outside area adjacent to the high school.

This week's Commontary™ comes to us via 27-year-old chef Bobby Tessler. He says the day he bought a $12,000 1999 GMC van from Dave Sinclair Lincoln-Mercury, his nine-year-old stepson discovered a hypodermic needle under the seat. Dealer James Sinclair says he bent over backward to make things ...

The owner of the Plaza Lincoln-Mercury dealership said he hopes to reopen by this afternoon after a fire Tuesday destroyed most of his building on U.S. Highway 441.

Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2007 with 222 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern systematic botany, in 1707; Austrian physician and hypnotist Franz Mesmer in 1734; ...

Monrovia-based Prolacta Bioscience has raised $12M in a funding round, the firm said today, in a round led by Alta Partners. The round also included DFJ Frontier, Arcturus Capital, DFJ Mercury, Funk Ventures, Phillip Capital, Gideon Hixon Fund, and Draper Associates L.P.... (more)

Wisconsinites can pay now to remove mercury from the air and fish or pay later through reduced mental capacities of state residents, according to many speaking at a hearing on mercury emissions Tuesday in Eau Claire.

I’ve never got Kate Moss. I accept she’s beautiful (magnanimous of me considering I look like a jacket potato baked on Mercury), but just not in that stratospherically ‘other’ way of Linda Evangelista, say, or Naomi Campbell.

Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently do the reverse, pulling minute amounts of the toxic metal out of ambient air.

Rep. Kent Williams has announced a water quality meeting Thursday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at the Doe Elementary School in Johnson County to discuss the tests for mercury levels found in fish in Watauga Lake. Rep. Williams said he had met more than once with TDEC to determine the source of the mercury and what can be done to control it.

DMN Newswire--2007-5-23--3ple-Media, the Mobile Multimedia infrastructure company, has added Image, Audio and Video Transcoding functionality to its Mercury Mobile Multimedia Platform.

MARQUETTE — A 15-year-old male Marquette Senior High School student has been identified as a suspect in a mercury spill at the high school Tuesday aft...

Marquette High School is closed Wednesday following the discovery of a mercury spill.

MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Police have detained a resident of the town of Biysk, in the Siberian Territory of Altai, as he tried to sell 34 kilos (74 pounds) of mercury in Moscow, a spokeswoman for the federal anti-narcotics service said Wednesday.

Doctors once thought they could cure disease by feeding patients poisons like arsenic and mercury, or literally draining their lifeblood away. A contemporary could have argued these doctors caused so much more harm than good, the world would be better off without them.

LEESBURG - At least a score of firefighters fought a smokey blaze Tuesday at the Plaza Lincoln-Mercury dealership on U.S. Highway 441 before bringing it under control about two hours later.

Marquette School Superintendent Jon Hartwig announced late Tuesday that Marquette High School will be closed Wednesday, following the discovery of a mercury spill in an outside area adjacent to the high school.

The eThekwini municipality has backtracked on its plans to rename nearly 200 streets by extending the deadline for objections and inviting further submissions, the Mercury newspaper reported on Wednesday.