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DEERFIELD BEACH — A man who family members said was an avid golfer died Friday after he was shot at a golf course Thursday evening during a robbery attempt. The Broward Sheriff's Office is searching for the men who shot Lataurus Randall, 35, of Deerfield Beach, in the back near the 17th hole of the Deerfield Country Club, just north of Hillsboro Boulevard and east of Interstate 95.

<p>WASHINGTON -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated Afghanistan war, has told the Army that he will retire.</p>

LAKEVILLE, Mass -- Police along with the Secret Service are investigating after a local country club discovered a swastika carved into the green. Lakeville County Club workers discovered the vandalism early Monday morning. Carved into the green on the 18th hole was a swastika next to President Barack Obama's name. The vandals snuck in at night and carved their message of hate, according to the owner of the country club. "We don't know if they did it with some type of cleated shoe, or they had some type of tool and this time of year to have that happen, it's...

CHILMARK, Mass. – President Barack Obama played tennis with his wife and golf with his buddies Monday, starting his first vacation in office on Martha's Vineyard, a picturesque island known as a refuge for the wealthy and privileged. Obama began the day with a workout at his rented retreat, then tennis with Michelle Obama, White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters traveling with the president. Obama later played golf with UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf and Chicago physician Eric Whitaker, both friends. White House aide Marvin Nicholson was also in the foursome. White House officials have stressed that the...

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has taken a swing at golf as the latest threat to revolutionary progress. In a national television address two weeks ago, Mr. Chavez denounced golf as a "bourgeois sport" for lazy elitists. Now officials in Venezuela are moving to close two of the country's best-known courses, in the cities of Maracay and Caraballeda, in order to make way for either public housing, parks or an extension campus of Bolivarian University. Mr. Chavez's regime is closing an average of three golf courses per year, and there are only about 20 left in the country. Leftists have long...

MELBOURNE (AFP) – The world’s longest golf course, stretching along 1,365 kilometers (848 miles) of desert highway with holes at 18 towns and service stations, is to open in Australia this year, organizers said Tuesday. The Nullarbor Links, which will span two time zones and measure more than the entire length of Britain, is expected to be completed next month and will host its inaugural tournament on October 22. “We’re very excited about it. It’s been a long time coming and a lot of effort,” project chairman Don Harrington told AFP. “This is the longest golf course in the world....

CARLSBAD — The Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously yesterday to cover the municipal golf course's $1.6 million deficit for 2009, saying it was too early to change the financial strategy for the year-old course. Expenses for the course, The Crossings at Carlsbad, are expected to be $8 million versus $6.4 million in revenues. The budget anticipates a drop in course play revenue to $3.2 million from $3.4 million because of the declining economy. The city's finance director, Lisa Irvine, said that the course's $2.5 million in food and beverage revenues for 2009 will be higher than the $2.3 million earned...

Escaped golf-course grass frees gene genie in the US 09 August 2006 Andy Coghlan A nondescript grass discovered in the Oregon countryside is hardly an alien invasion. Yet the plant - a genetically modified form of a grass commonly grown on golf courses - is worrying the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) enough that it is running its first full environmental impact assessment of a GM plant. It is the first time a GM plant has escaped into the wild in the US, and it has managed it before securing USDA approval. The plant, creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera, carries a...

Golf course is Promised Land First Presbyterian's new home was revealed in a dream, but not all consider it heaven sent ____________________________________________ To the Rev. Dan Chun, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu, it was nothing short of, well, a miracle. For years, Chun's church had been searching for a new, affordable location with adequate parking for its burgeoning congregation. And then, Chun told his congregation last month, it came to a church member one night in a dream. There was Chun preaching a sermon in an unlikely place: the clubhouse of Koolau Golf Course. Map art Now,...

Millions drained at golf course Durango Hills audit finds ill management By J.M. KALIL REVIEW-JOURNAL A city of Las Vegas public golf course projected to produce a $500,000 annual profit when it opened in 2002 has instead hemorrhaged $3 million over the past two years, according to an audit released Thursday. City Auditor Radford Snelding's 31-page review of Durango Hills Golf Club paints a picture of a grossly mismanaged public facility that was overseen until July by a superintendent who used the course's employees and equipment on his sideline business during their regular work hours.

A high school chemistry teacher was arrested after students claimed he taught his class how to make a bomb, authorities said. David Pieski, 42, used an overhead projector in class to give instructions in making explosives to students at Freedom High School, including advising them to use an electric detonator to stay clear from the blast, an Orange County sheriff's arrest report said. In Pieski's classroom in Orlando, authorities found a book labeled "Demo," which includes the chemical breakdown for a powerful explosive, the arrest report said. One student said he set off an explosive device at a golf course...

<p>An al Qaeda suspect in custody in Belgium told American investigators he saw members of the terror organization training snipers in preparation for attacks on U.S. soil, a source told The Post last night.</p> <p>One of the planned attacks targeted U.S. senators on a golf course.</p>

Sheriff investigating golf-course hijinks By DONNIE JOHNSTON Date published: 10/23/2003 A Fauquier County sheriff's deputy has resigned and two others have been "severely" disciplined after they allegedly shot up a golf cart during a tournament at a Culpeper County golf course last week. Culpeper County Sheriff Lee Hart confirmed yesterday that his office is conducting a criminal investigation of the incident and will let Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Close decide whether to prosecute. The alleged shooting occurred on Monday, Oct. 13, during a birthday celebration for the wife of one of the officers at South Wales Golf Course near Jeffersonton, Fauquier...

Senate OKs 2-cent gas tax By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau April 10, 2002 Email this story. The Senate’s passage of gas-tax bills puts RSA’s proposal for a golf complex and luxury hotel in Colbert and Lauderdale counties one step closer to becoming a reality. File photo by TimesDaily Photo Editor Matt McKean MONTGOMERY - The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation allowing governments in Colbert and Lauderdale counties to increase gasoline taxes to pay for a proposed economic development project. The Senate, on a 16-1 vote, approved a bill by Rep. Nelson Starkey, D-Florence, that will give the Lauderdale County Commission...