As the sole bugler for the southern region of New York's Military Forces Honor Guard -- part of the state National Guard -- Louis DiLeo travels five days a week from cemetery to cemetery, playing at funerals of military servicemen and women and veterans. He started three years ago and hasn't missed a day since. About 1,800 veterans die each day, most of them from World War II.
read moreA body found in a Georgia landfill is that of missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson. Sheriff Rick Beseler said that the identification was based on clothing on the body and a birthmark that matched an "odd-shaped" mark on Somer Thompson's left shin. Investigators followed garbage trucks from the neighborhood where Somer disappeared on Monday to a landfill in Georgia where they discovered the body after searching through 100 tons of garbage.
NASA's "comeback kid" has done it again.
After astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis made a risky servicing mission in May, the Hubble Space Telescope is back and better than ever, once again capturing astonishing images of the cosmos and sending them back to Earth
read moreDominick Dunne, a best-selling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair, died today at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause of death was bladder cancer, said his son Griffin Dunne.
Dunnewho joined Vanity Fair in 1984 as a contributing editor and was named special correspondent in 1993famously covered the trials of O. J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and Phil Spector, as well as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He wrote memorable profiles on numerous personalities, among them Imelda Marcos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Blow, Adnan Khashoggi, and Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. His monthly column provided a glimpse inside high society, and captivated readers.
...By all means take a look at San Antonio....SA is one of the leading communities in the nation for job growth and real estate market, and I never ran out of things to do. Zoo, museums, Sea World, Six Flags, Schlitterbahn, Missions, the River Walk, etc. Great choice. Now if it weren't so god awful hot....
#64 | Posted by SpokaneJim at 2009-11-18 11:30 PM
...but SA, just 70 miles away, is also very nice and is much more affordadable.
#84 | Posted by goatman at 2009-11-20 05:50 AM
Don't know if you guys will even see this post now as this thread is off the Front Page, but if you do I'd appreciate some advice.
I'd been looking on Craig's List lately in their section for Apts/housing for rent in San Antonio, TX. There's many available but I'm totally unfamiliar with the city.
Could either of you (or anyone else who might know) do me a favor and tell me what parts of San Antonio I do not want to look in for an apt. or house to rent?
I didn't want to waste my time checking out apts/houses to rent in some crime and/or gang-infested part of town. Your advice would at least help me narrow down which areas to look in and which parts of town to stay away from.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll check back later to see if anyone could answer my question.


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Just go straight to my userpage.