| Parish hopes to reopen improved office annex
ST. FRANCISVILLE — West Feliciana Parish Police Jury officials said Thursday they hope improvements made in recent weeks would allow them to reopen the parish’s courthouse annex Monday. Jury President Bert Babers and Parish Manager Ambrose Sims said the jury will monitor the air quality in the building through the weekend and again Monday morning. "All things being equal, we hope we can reopen Monday," Babers said after meeting with a consulting engineer the jury hired last month when workers in the building began complaining of illnesses. Investigations into possible causes for the illnesses showed a buildup of carbon dioxide in the building, as well as dirty ductwork in part of the building’s heating and air conditioning systems. A year ago, dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide made workers ill and forced the jury to close the building until the jury sealed an exterior opening in its boiler room wall near the boilers’ exhausts.
Outlook roundup: NeuStar, Diebold
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- NeuStar Inc., a provider of clearinghouse services for communications companies, said Wednesday it expects to earn at least $1.29 per share during 2008, short of analyst expectations. NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Diebold Inc. will cut 5 percent of its work force as part of a plan to save $100 million, the maker of ATMs and voting machines said Wednesday. NEW YORK (AP) -- Apparel maker Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. on Wednesday raised fiscal 2008 earnings predictions due to a lower tax rate. DALLAS (AP) -- Lennox International Inc., a supplier of heating, ventilation and air conditioning products, maintained its 2008 adjusted earnings outlook Wednesday. HARTSVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- packaging products maker Sonoco Products Co. on Wednesday forecast first-quarter earnings below Wall Street expectations.
Civic center ‘beginning to jeopardize park'
The Benton Community Park District has its back to the wall in its efforts to manage the Benton Civic Center.The group has been managing the aging facility for nearly two years. The civic center is in need of a new heat/air-conditioning system and new carpeting. Also, the gravel parking lot is in poor repair and needs to be asphalted.The problem is money - or a lack thereof. .
MIDEAST: Bush Faces Major Choice Amid Escalation
This is potentially very dangerous," Bassel Saloukh, a political scientist at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, told IPS in a telephone interview. "If the Americans take this to legitimate a strike against Iran or Syria, then I think it will escalate with devastating consequences."
For the past two weeks, Washington has mostly stood on the sidelines as Israeli forces have carried out military operations in Gaza, including the destruction of a U.S.-financed power plant and several other infrastructure targets, in what has so far been a futile quest to press Hamas to release an IDF corporal seized by militants during a raid on an Israeli border post in late June.
Those operations, which have so far resulted in the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians, as well as one Israeli soldier, have worsened what was already a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza in what Arab governments and some human rights groups have called a disproportionate act of "collective punishment" against the civilian population.
Village youths succeed where police fails
Vigilant squads catch eight transformer thieves red-handed in Issewal village
Jupinderjit Singh
Tribune News Service Issewal (Hambran), February 20
What the police could not do for months to prevent thefts of transformers, a group of youths of this village, all soldiers, has done in just six days. .
Lawrence eatery makes magazine’s list
Brown said she wants it to be more energy efficient and sustainable. A couple of ideas she mentioned were more eco-friendly to-go containers and a more efficient water heating system. Karen Black, co-owner of Local Burger, said she expected the new restaurant to go up in the Kansas City area. —Edited by Sasha Roe .
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