Colleen Rice organized a garage sale at her home in Lodi on Saturday as part of her group's fundraising effort. Garage sale grinch can't stop relay. But the women's joy soon turned to tears. MEDINA COUNTY -- They found items, donated their time, and raised about $500 for cancer research, but now, the efforts of some Medina County women seem wasted. But someone soon came to the Relay's rescue. The Medina County Relay for Life will happen at the Medina County Fairgrounds, starting at 10:00...

Officials at three foreign-owned import companies operating in Havana, who refused to have their names published for fear of economic repercussions, said the communist government itself still imports the vast majority of American goods. The companies say they have no direct knowledge of sales in Cuba, and that the amounts involved are small and would be impractical to stop. And obviously for the tourist industry it's important for the foreigners who visit Cuba to see products that they...

For generations, the Drayton family lived in luxury, thanks to slaves who built their Lowcountry plantations, cooked their food, cleaned their homes, groomed their horses and planted the rice that made them rich. As director of Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, the Draytons' ancestral home and modern-day tourist attraction, Nelson is leading what some experts call the most ambitious examination of plantation slavery ever undertaken by descendants of former slave masters....

This uber-funky establishment's toilets are visible from the bar and are designed to be a talking point, according to general manager Dan Rice. De Nom in Darlinghurst- a bar flush with funds after offering memberships at $10,000 each- certainly has the city's most lavish lavatory. When you flush, the painting on the wall- a replica of an artwork "from the loo Louvre''- rises to reveal the washbasin. The cubicles at De Nom are designed to look like sitting rooms, complete with canopied...

His invention gives up to seven hours of light on a daily solar recharge and can last nearly three years between replacements of three AA batteries together costing 80 cents. in a sweltering refugee camp here in western Ethiopia, a group of foreigners was making its way past thatch-roofed huts when a tall, rail-thin man approached a silver-haired American and took hold of his hands. The man, a Sudanese refugee, announced that his wife had just given birth, and the boy would be honored with...