Cards chat Q-&-A with Joe Strauss

Baseball writer fields queries from Cards fans AND the "VillageIdiot."

Elephant Sanctuary hires new CEO

HOHENWALD — The Elephant Sanctuary has announced the appointment of a new CEO to run the not-for-profit wildlife refuge in Lewis County.

Nichols to serve 18 years for baby daughter's death

Few eyes were dry Tuesday afternoon in Circuit Judge John H. Gasaway's courtroom during the sentencing of Cortni Lee Nichols, who was convicted of murdering her infant daughter.

Accident at Russia’s Kursk Nuclear Power Plant reveals blatant disregard of safety standards: Is the Russian nuclear ...

ST. PETERSBURG – Incidents of various degrees of severity are not uncommon at Russian nuclear power plants (NPPs), but when repairs take longer than a month – as was the case with Reactor 1 of Kursk NPP, which was scrammed on July 22 and only went online on August 31 – concerns arise that serious damage must have occurred. A scrutiny of what happened at Kursk NPP seems to indicate the ...

Manufacturing enters a new age

Nearly 38,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky over the past 10 years, but this industry is far from dying. Waves of retirements - and a high-tech shift - means workers, not jobs, will soon become scarce.