http://www.richmondregister.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 01 May 2008 09:21:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_122092213.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_122092213.html Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_121153233.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_121153233.html As headlines about a struggling economy pour in, parents worried about their wallets are waiting longer to register their children for summer camp and more are asking for financial aid.Day camp directors said parents are making decisions a month or two later than usual as they determine their summer finances, said Peter Surgenor, the national president of the American Camp Association. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:27:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_114142823.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_114142823.html Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas?That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_107140825.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_107140825.html Take the University of Kentucky's journalism survey and get a chance at winning a gift card worth $250, $100 or $50. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:08:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_086080953.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_086080953.html This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:33:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_079073128.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_079073128.html When Ann Kahn was growing up, her family took the same summer vacation every year — a trip to Yosemite. But things are different for her daughter, Ashley. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:33:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_056143406.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_056143406.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney’s face.Two of the most imaginatively twisted minds in modern film, Joel and Ethan Coen, completed their journey from the fringes to Hollywood’s mainstream on Sunday as their crime saga “No Country for Old Men” won a leading four Academy Awards, including best picture. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:45:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_008104610.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_008104610.html If you would like to leave a long, rambling message with no apparent point, please hang up now.If you are calling to verify that your e-mail has been received, please go outside and do five laps around the block.If you’d like to leave five numbers and the different hours of the day you might be reached at those numbers, please quit your job, begin taking daily Bikram yoga classes and move to Santa Fe. Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_357191150.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_357191150.html Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_304110958.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_304110958.html Leftover candy? Who has leftover candy? Ok, so maybe you don’t have any leftover candy. But if you do — or if it’s just all the stuff you’re kids wouldn’t eat — here are some recipes you can make with the leftovers. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_282140220.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_282140220.html Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:43:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_267104353.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_267104353.html For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place as Niagara Falls’ most famous funambulist. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:40:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_267104206.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_267104206.html The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list.The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix. But some lawmakers think it is a hassle to expect people to re-register their phone numbers every five years. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:26:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_255082655.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_255082655.html The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV’s Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:21:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_255082131.html http://www.richmondregister.com/fyi/local_story_255082131.html Indiana officials and methadone clinic operators defended the clinics’ practice of giving drug addicts take-home doses of methadone, telling a legislative panel the doses help patients re-establish normal lives.