Beijing Olympics broadcasting center evacuated - MSN MoneyCentral

BEIJING (AP) - Broadcast officials say the massive building housing television facilities for next month's Beijing Olympics has been evacuated due to an apparent gas leak. John Barton, the director of sport for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ...

Ohio governor declares emergency from wind damage - Washington Post

Resize JUNCTION CITY, Ohio -- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has declared a state of emergency in the county hit by a storm with winds of up to 110 mph. The storm in Perry County in east-central Ohio damaged buildings and uprooted trees and power lines ...

Starter's to open in Detroit's new Studio One Apartments - Detroit News

DETROIT -- Starter's Bar and Grill will open its third location inside Studio One Apartments in Midtown next year. Starter's Bar and Grill, which serves American cuisine, will be the first restaurant to occupy the new apartment building's first floor ...

New building to be named after La Crosse donor - La Crosse Tribune

ENDEAVOR, Wis. — The village of Endeavor’s new multi-purpose facility will bear the name of a generous donor. Ada Mills Donner, 88, of La Crosse recently gave the village $100,000 for the building. Officials in the village, which has a population ...

The Custom McMansion - Wall Street Journal

Buyers wanting one-of-a-kind custom homes without the typical high prices are finding bargains in a surprising place: with mass-market home builders. A number of big home builders are now getting into the custom-home game -- an area that was once ...

Cherish our museums. They see the bigger, civic picture - Guardian Unlimited

When Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was welcomed into Tate Modern recently by Nicholas Serota, it was a meeting of arguably the two most influential museum directors in the world. Lowry was in London to promote MoMA's ...

Japan hunts for injured after powerful quake - Hindustan Times

Rescue teams searched under dense fog and rain on Thursday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 100 people injured, some of them seriously. The 6.8 Richter-scale quake struck just after midnight on the ...