| All-Star coaches looking for a few good boys, girls
Ron Bevars' quest to find what he called "12 angry young men" will begin tonight at Georgetown College. That's when tryouts for the Kentucky All-Star basketball teams will start, and Bevars will be the head coach for a Bluegrass State squad that is trying to snap a five-game losing streak in its annual summer series with Indiana. .
House Democrats, NRA Seek to Strengthen Background Checks for Gun ...
Like most lawmakers, Boucher wore a maroon and orange ribbon on his lapel Friday, set aside as a day of remembrance for the Virginia Tech tragedy. Dingell would not comment on the talks Friday, nor would the NRA. "This is not the time for political discussions, public policy debates or to advance a political agenda," the group said in a statement. However, another gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, is adamantly opposed to the legislation. It said the measure would allow the government to trample privacy rights by compiling reams of personal information and potentially bar mentally stable people from buying guns. "The thing that most concerns us about this is our friends at the NRA are supporting it, and that could give Democrats cover in the election," said Larry Pratt, a spokesman for the group.
NYC holds vigil in honor of Va. Tech victims
As twilight fell on Washington Square Park Thursday night, about 200 people, many of them Virginia Tech alumni, lit candles and held a moment of silence in honor of the massacre victims and in solidarity with the mourning survivors and families.
A candle brought up from the Blacksburg, Va., campus was the first to be lit and its flame was passed hand-to-hand on the warm spring evening until all of the candles were glowing.
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NYC tries out underwater energy turbines
NEW YORK (AP) -- The murky rivers around New York City bring to mind many things -- garbage, chemicals, perhaps mobsters' bodies. Clean energy is not one of them.But the state is trying to change that thinking.It is teaming up with a Virginia company to use the East River for a unique experiment in renewable energy: Six giant turbines are being placed underwater in a $7 million project to harness the energy of the tides and produce electricity.One of the 16-foot-diameter, windmill-like turbines is already operating, supplying power to a grocery store and a garage on Roosevelt Island. The other turbines are being installed over the next two weeks.
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