Taber Auto Body saw so many crumpled fenders, smashed hoods and dented doors last year that owner George Taber boosted the number of employees on his payroll by 30 percent and increased the size of his shop by 50 percent. A new report estimates that the countys population will double by 2035 and projects local roadways will be far more congested than transportation experts had originally thought. Owners and managers of local auto body shops say they are seeing unprecedented levels of...

Visitors can tour farms on tractors, taste fresh produce and find out what kind of food is produced close to their homes. Farmers hope the open day, organised by environment organisation LEAF, will raise awareness of farming and food. If you ask where milk comes from, they usually say a cow, but if you then ask where beef comes from they get confused that some animals are bred for different reasons. MANY children in Cheshire have no idea whether carrots grow on trees or in the ground,...

Where was Barack Obama? The moment was perfect last week for the Illinois senator and champion of bipartisanship to step forward and help save the compromise immigration bill from a premature death. But Gringo Americans have even more clout in the end--and they are truly upset about the whole issue of porous borders and amnesty for their violation. All he needed to do was switch his vote to oppose an amendment whose passage was going to shatter the Senate coalition that negotiated the...

coli last year, touched off renewed debate about food safety when investigators linked the illnesses to peanut butter made at a ConAgra Foods inc. plant in Georgia. The CDC said the rate of new infections has tapered off and it urged people to immediately discard any remaining jars of Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter with a product code beginning with 2111. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had linked 288 cases of food-borne illness in 39 states to peanut butter consumption....

To stanch an outmigration of doctors eyeing greener pastures and to lure recruits to Louisiana, the state has developed the Greater New Orleans Health Service Corps, a program that offers incentives of up to $110,000, including student loan repayment and income guarantees, to doctors, dentists and other medical professionals willing to work in post-disaster conditions. To stanch an outmigration of doctors eyeing greener pastures and to lure recruits to Louisiana, the state has developed...