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MENOMONIE, Wis.- Workers at a Wisconsin bar said Milwaukee Bucks fans were distracted from a game by a pair of real bucks crashing through the front doors. Employees at the Stout Ale House in Menomonie said a number of basketball fans were watching the Sunday playoff game between the Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks when the two deer broke through the doors of the bar and restaurant about 12:30 p.m., Chippewa Valley Newspapers reported Tuesday. "They crashed right into the front door and knocked it right off its hinges," said Ale House Vice President Dave Burg. "One of the deer...

GQ has a feature this month on Milwaukee Bucks' star Brandon Jennings in which Jennings expresses his desire to date the singer Ciara and his amazement that President Barack Obama knew who he was. You can find the whole story here. Jennings talks about his love of Twitter, which got him into a little trouble a few months back, and his love for Carnevor, the Milwaukee restaurant. Jennings tells writer Davy Rothbart that he met Obama during a stop in Washington. "I couldn't believe he even knew who I was," Jennings said. "He razzed if the older players were still...

Rob mItchell is running for Congress in the 8th District of Pennsylvania. See, www.Rob4Congress.com "It's a Matter of Trust!"

The fed, Under Obama's personal direction, has begun printing mo money. No word yet as the China's reaction. Click here for more to this story

We need suggestions for good solid rock n roll (preferrably American) songs to upload onto our sound system for the opening and ending of the Apr. 18 Bucks County Tea Party in Upper Makefield, Pennsylvania. Steppenwolf's "Ride With Me" and "It's Never Too Late" are two good choices, but we need more. Any help?

Since I have retired I have discovered that I have a fair amount of money. I also have a fair amount of assets in property but that is outside of the issue I need advice about. I am dealing with a small bank and I would like to crank up the interest rate on the IRA's, now and near future say 6/1/08. What arguement am I going to use to twist the Board of Directors collective arms to get an acceptable return.

On Feb. 1, Houston’s Republican political elite will gather at the Houstonian, the city’s stateliest hotel, for a fund-raiser for former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Yankee-loving, gay-friendly, Italian-American Presidential aspirant. It’s an odd setting for him. The hotel’s lobby is decorated in the style of a Texan hunting lodge, with wooden beams, taxidermy and elk paintings. Guests have spotted armadillos, rabbits and raccoons on the woodsy grounds. A suite at the hotel long served as the first President Bush’s official residence (for tax and voting purposes). But these days, Mr. Giuliani has been getting comfortable with Lone...

FARMINGTON (AP) --A hunter and his father are paying the price for violating hunting laws and boasting about it on an Internet message board, the state Division of Natural Resources said Thursday. Robert Daniel ''Murphy'' Kane II, 26, and his father were fined after the DNR was tipped off Jan. 23 to the posting, which included photos, on an outdoors-related message board. In the posting, Kane bragged of killing two bucks on the first day of the 2006 buck season, said Sgt. Roy Cool of the DNR's Law Enforcement Section District 1 office in Farmington. The legal limit is one...

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AMBER ALERT 08/31/06, BUCKS CO., BLK HISP F, 3 YOA, 39” 35 LBS, BLK HR, BRN EYES, PINK SHIRT PINK PANTS, NO SHOES, ABDUCTED APPROX. 0911 BLK MALE, 19 YOA, 6’5” 170 LBS., BRN EYES, BLK HAIR, NO SHIRT, BLUE JEANS, 1997 RED BUICK SDN, PA REG FXY9677 The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for the Bensalem Police Department, Bucks County. Bensalem Police are searching for Jiane FITZPATRICK, a black hispanic female, age 3, 39” tall, 35 pounds, black hair with pink barrettes, brown eyes, wearing a pink shirt and pink long pants, no footwear....

MANY governments, including some that claim to be leading the fight against global warming, are harbouring a dirty little secret. These countries are emitting far more greenhouse gas than they say they are, a fact that threatens to undermine not only the shaky Kyoto protocol but also the new multibillion-dollar market in carbon trading. Under Kyoto, each government calculates how much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide its country emits by adding together estimated emissions from individual sources.....

As congressional Republicans wrangled over deportations, detentions and other get-tough measures on illegal immigration, another Republican spent this week hugging newly naturalized immigrants and enthusiastically hosting Mexican President Vicente Fox. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is charting a different political course from conservatives in Washington this election year, emphasizing tolerance and pragmatism over a hard-line border lockdown. "He is trying to deal with immigration not just from the loud voices on the left and the loud voices on the right, but to find a place where you can deal with the whole breadth of the issue," said Matthew Dowd, Schwarzenegger's chief campaign...

I found a copy of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West" for $9.99 at Family Fare. Widescreen & special features. W00t. BUT. My glee was made sad when I saw the SECONDARY STICKER (in other words... a sticker placed upon the shrink-wrap): "DISC MADE IN MEXICO" haha. ah hah

Critics of U.S. border security policy already contend the nation's borders are porous -- lacking in sufficient manpower and technology -- yet the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars to help secure other countries' boundaries. More than 1,000 Customs and Border Protection officers and agents are deployed to Iraq, Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico to train military and law enforcement personnel in securing their borders, tracking people through rural terrain, and anti-terrorism, according to the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Over the past 10 years, nearly $400 million was allocated to Mexico from the...

DOYLESTOWN, PA (AP) A computer failure may mean that some Bucks County gun owners won’t get their renewal notices before their permits expire. Sheriff Edward Donnelly says he thinks no more than a few dozen renewal notices have gone out late. But Andrew Barniskis, the legislative chairman for the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association, says he thinks the problem is more widespread. Barniskis says he brought the problem of late renewal notices to Donnelly’s attention more than a year ago and was assured the problem would be fixed. Gun permits must be renewed every five years, and the sheriff’s...

Departing congressmen cash in for big bucks By MATT STEARNS Posted on Tue, Dec. 21, 2004 Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - For many congressmen and senators, Congress is something like the Eagles' song "Hotel California": Members check out, but they never really leave. With the 108th Congress now passed into history, another Washington tradition is playing out this month as departing members of Congress, rather than returning home, trade their years of service for big paychecks from lobbying groups, investment banks and law firms. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is sifting among offers. Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., will join one of...

<p>WASHINGTON - Conservatives wait warily as President Bush makes final decisions about his election-year budget, three years into an administration on whose watch spending has mushroomed by 23.7 percent, the fastest pace in a decade.</p> <p>While Bush has emphasized repeatedly the need to rein in spending, overall federal expenditures have grown to an estimated $2.31 trillion for the budget year that started Oct. 1.</p>

NOTICE OF PROPOSED CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND HEARING THEREON William D. Hoffman, et al vs American Express Travel Related Services com. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda, Case No. 2001-011881 Litigation began on 9/6/01 when plaintiff Hoffman filed a complaint.....alleging that Amex engaged in false advertising and unfair biz practices with respect to airflight, baggange, etc programs by saying insurance premiums would only be charged when the cardmember flew. Charges are that they didn't refund premiums when cardmember didn't fly or when flights were cancelled, etc.

George Karl is out as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. General manager Larry Harris announced the decision Sunday. "It was pretty clear on both sides that this was the way to go," Harris said. "We felt we needed to get someone in there this year and for years to come."

Ohio State, Tressel Agree to New Contract Jun 16, 4:12 PM (ET) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel signed a new six-year contract Monday worth at least $1.3 million this season and escalating to $1.8 million in the final year. The new deal comes after Tressel led Ohio State to its first national championship since 1968 with a 31-24 double-overtime win over Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. The contract, which replaces a deal that would have expired after the 2005 season, includes a base salary of $285,700 that increases to $405,300 in the final year. Tressel...