| Anger at Pembrokeshire's "poor" train service
A 22-year-old Kilgetty man has demanded an apology from Arriva Trains Wales for poor train services which have frequently left him unable to get to work. Ben Large depends on public transport to get to Pembroke School where he works as a cover supervisor. Since October he has missed a morning's work on five separate occasions due to the train not turning up. Ben has never needed to own a car and has only found the train system to be problematic after returning to Pembrokeshire. He said: "I have personally incurred a loss of earnings because of failures in the system where the promised alternative transport is either ridiculously late or non-existent. "What's laughable about it is that they've now raised their fares." He added: "It's disgusting coming from a public service, especially when the Government is trying to persuade everyone to go green'.
Mementos of MLK's secretary up for sale
Now most of those items are for sale in a real antiques shop, Paris on Ponce, a rambling emporium in a former mattress factory near City Hall East in Midtown Atlanta. "These things were precious to Dora," says Latimore, taking a seat in a corner of the floor reserved for McDonald's possessions: tables and chairs and marble-topped furniture and gilt-framed mirrors and dozens of plates and cups blossoming with pink floral patterns. "She liked her flowers, that's for sure," says shop employee Shane Garner. McDonald's image smiles from a 1969 newspaper article displayed on an easel. It shows her at home with many of these same treasures, under the headline "Dinner With Dora." "She never got married," Latimore says. "Dr. King told her that some people weren't supposed to get married, and she was one of them." Latimore met McDonald in 1965 when she went to work for the King family as a baby sitter and later as personal assistant to Coretta Scott King.
Mother Earth Mother Board
Over the course of two months, photographer Alex Tehrani and I hit six countries and four continents trying to get a grip on this longest, fastest, mother of all wires. I took a GPS receiver with me so that I could have at least a general idea of where the hell we were. It gave me the above reading in front of a Chinese temple around the corner from the Shangri-La Hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which was only one of 100 peculiar spots around the globe where I suddenly pulled up short and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing here?" You might well ask yourself the same question before diving into an article as long as this one. The answer is that we all depend heavily on wires, but we hardly ever think about them. Before learning about FLAG, I knew that data packets could get from America to Asia or the Middle East, but I had no idea how.
Web Site Sells North Korean Luxury Goods
They're potentially just a click away. North Korea, known more for nuclear saber-rattling than its consumer products, is offering overseas shoppers the chance to buy hundreds of its goods via the Internet. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. Those who keep a close eye on North Korea say the move is likely a bid by the perpetually impoverished country to earn cash and also raise awareness about what it has to offer. The Web site — available in Korean, English, Chinese, Russian and Japanese — also sells bicycles, commemorative stamps, roller skates and uniforms for Taekwondo, a Korean martial art. It includes a shopping cart icon and says credit cards are acceptable. But, much like the North Korean economy, the site doesn't work very well.
Kaufman County sheriff candidate indicted on oppression charges
Frankum called it "dirty tricks" in January when a warrant was issued for his arrest in a separate case based on allegations that he had stolen police equipment from his former department. Mr. Frankum, who was expected to turn himself in on Monday, did not return calls for comment. David Montague, spokesman for the Tarrant County district attorney's office, confirmed Monday that a grand jury on Feb. 7 indicted Mr. Frankum on three counts involving two complainants, whom Mr. Montague declined to identify. Mr. Montague said he did not know when the original complaints that led to the indictments were made or whether they originated with an agency other than the district attorney's office. All the incidents allegedly happened between February and August 2006 while Mr. Frankum was employed by the Police Department in Pelican Bay, a town of about 1,600 northwest of Fort Worth in Tarrant County.
Cultura club holds consecration service
Liner conducted the business meeting. Annette Bedgood reported on the club's Christmas project, which consisted of providing food, clothing and toys for two needy families. Submit anecdotes or items about local people to Jes' Ramblin', c/o The News-Star, 411 N. Fourth St., Monroe, La., 71201; or e-mail them to accent@thenewsstar.com. .
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