Bucks-Hawks postponed; North braces for storm

Bucks-Hawks game postponed by winter storm
ATLANTA (AP) — Tuesday night’s game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks has been postponed due to the winter storm that has locked down much of north Georgia. The game has been rescheduled for March 15 at Philips Arena. Ice and snow from a winter storm that hit north Georgia on Sunday night are making travel difficult around Atlanta. Portions of some roads are closed. Hawks spokesman Arthur Triche says one concern for Tuesday night was having enough staff at Philips Are...

NBA: Milwaukee at Atlanta, ppd., weather
ATLANTA, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Severe winter weather in the Atlanta area led to the postponement of Tuesday's NBA game between the Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks. A large storm has covered much of the U.S. Southeast with snow and ice, making travel hazardous. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, one of the busiest in the world, has seen hundreds of flights canceled in recent days and many roadways are closed because of slippery conditions. Both Atlanta and Milwaukee have games Wednesday, with...

Union Bosses Scheme to Be Girl Scouts Next Tagalong
The same sort of deception and unfairness by Big Labor that would have allowed union organizers to replace workplace Elections with coercion-prone “card check” is rearing its ugly head, and this time it may be Girl Scouts who pay the highest price. President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board is currently considering Roundy’s v Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades, AFL-CIO. The union is hoping to persuade the NLRB that if an employer lets one outside party onto their prem

South Fights with Chill; NYC Braces for Storm
The snow-and-ice storm that has shut down much of the South slowly rolled toward the Northeast on Tuesday, revealing a regional culture clash along the way. Up to 14 inches of snow are predicted for New York City, two feet in New England. CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports in the northeast, major cities have a snow plan. In Atlanta, the plan seems to be to wait for warmer temperatures to melt the ice and that's not in the forecast until this weekend. Across the South, communities ...

Montoya Named Special Agent in Charge of FBIs Honolulu Division
Frank Montoya Jr. was named Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Honolulu division, the bureau has announced. The former section chief in the Counterintelligence Division began his career in the San Antonio Field Office as special agent in May 1991, specializing in Violent Crime and fugitive investigations. From there, he went to work in the San Juan, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee and San Francisco field offices, overseeing various cases involving drugs, violent crime, national sec...

Melo-less Nets Tip Off Wednesday In Phoenix
NEW YORK (AP) - The New Jersey Nets continue to be discussed as a possible landing spot for three-time All-Star Carmelo Anthony. Coach Avery Johnson, though, doesn’t see his lineup changing during the team’s upcoming road trip. The Phoenix Suns are likely thankful they won’t have to face Anthony on consecutive nights. The Nets kick off their four-game trip with a matchup against the struggling Suns on Wednesday night, trying to avoid a sixth consecutive road loss. Devin H...

Fed's Beige Book: "Economic activity continued to expand moderately"
by CalculatedRisk on 1/12/2011 02:00:00 PM Fed's Beige Book: Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December. ... Contacts in the Manufacturing sector in all Districts reported that activity continued to recover, with the Richmond and Chicago Districts citing especially solid gains in orders. However, the Boston, Atlanta, and Dallas Districts noted that business remained weak for manufacturers selli...

Cancelled flights pile up in US snowfall
Airlines in the US cancelled hundreds of flights in the snowy Northeast but said travellers won't be stuck for days as they were after a Christmas weekend storm. It will be easier to put stranded passengers on later flights, which aren't as full as they were during the holidays, according to the Airlines. Travel in and out of New York and Boston was very limited on Wednesday morning. Officials at New York City area's three major airports said more than 1700 flights were cancelled. American Airli...

Ex-Philadelphia mag editor named Philadelphia Daily News editor
Today, I am pleased to announce several editorial staff changes that will move us significantly closer to becoming the most innovative, relevant and profitable regional media company in the U.S. Stan has assembled a new executive editorial team at the Inquirer and Michael Days will be his new Managing Editor. At the Daily News, Larry Platt, the former editor of Philadelphia Magazine will become the new Editor. These appointments and others mentioned in the attached Press Release put us in a stro...

Another Winter Storm Hammers The Northeast
The Northeast was getting hammered Wednesday by its second major snowstorm of the season, snarling traffic and forcing delays and cancellations at airports and causing a sense of deja vu for residents up and down the Eastern Seaboard. The storm was expected to dump as much as 20 inches in parts of Long Island by Wednesday afternoon. It comes less than three weeks after a Dec. 26 system  paralyzed airports and ground transportation for days in the region. Wednesday morning, the Port Authority of...

Overnight Snow Causing Few Problems In NJ
Rt. 17 in East Rutherford, N.J. (credit: Steve Sandberg, 1010 WINS) TRENTON, N.J. (AP/CBS New York) - A snow-weary New Jersey woke up Wednesday to up to a foot of fresh snow on the ground, schools closed, office openings delayed and flights canceled. However, unlike the monstrosity of a winter storm mess just over two weeks earlier, this one wasn’t such a Big Deal. “Being that it was overnight, they could catch up to it pretty well. There’s nothing major we’re deali...

Cycling Up 70 Percent on Londons Bike Superhighways
Figures are starting to come in from London’s investment in “cycle superhighways,” and the data make a strong argument for more robust dedicated bike infrastructure. A Transport for London study found that cycling is up 70 percent along routes where the city’s beefed-up bikeways were installed, reports Network blog Cyclicio.us. At the same time, a proposal to create a network of separated bike lanes in Toronto is sparking a debate about their usefulness. Information from ...

Iverson needs lesion removed on right leg
Former NBA star Allen Iverson plans to have a lesion removed from his right leg in the United States and intends to rejoin his Turkish team in time for the Playoffs. Gary Moore, Iverson’s longtime manager, said Iverson told him Wednesday that he doesn’t plan to retire because of the painful condition. “It has to be removed and tested to see if it’s benign or not,” Moore said by phone. “Once that’s removed, Allen is going to look to rehabilitate his leg b...

Winter storm again cancels Orlando flights
Winter weather pounding the Northeast has compounded the airline disruptions caused by Sunday and Monday's storms in the South, leading to more than 50 flight cancelations this morning at Orlando International Airport Canceled flights are affecting routes between Orlando and cities ranging from Atlanta to Manchester, N.H., plus a few routes affected by connections, to such warmer climes as San Juan, P.R., and Fort Lauderdale. The latest canceled flight lists at Orlando International are through...

Winter Storm Strikes the Northeast
A fast-moving winter storm, or a "weather bomb" as some forecasters have called it, has brought heavy snow and winds along the East Coast. The storm was expected to bring as much as one foot of snow in some places. The system has already created travel nightmares across the country. For New Yorkers, the third time was not the charm. The winter storm is the third to hit the state in less than three weeks. In the Big Apple, the goal has been to avoid a repeat that brought heavy criticism after ...

Fed: 'Economic Activity Continued To Expand' Last Month
What is this? There's more modestly good news from the Federal Reserve Board today about the health of the U.S. economy. "Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December," the Fed writes in its latest "beige book," an eight-times-a-year largely anecdotal look at how things are going around the country. "Conditions were said to be improving in the Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond Districts. ...

Blanket of ice: U.S. shivers as 49 of 50 states are hit by snow storms
The U.S. is shivering in the grips of a freezing winter with 49 of its 50 states now having snow on the ground. Two winter storms have dumped several inches of snow in some states and left flights grounded from Texas to the Carolinas. The only state to avoid the icy conditions was Florida, but even the Sunshine State suffered Flight Cancellations due to heavy fog. © Google Freezing: Only Florida, in the extreme southeast, has so far escaped snow fall as two storms cover virtually the wh...

Heavy Snow Wreaks Havoc in Northeast
(NewsCore) - Plows and salt spreaders took to the streets in America's northeast Wednesday as a major snowstorm that caused chaos in the South moved into the area Tuesday night. The National Weather Service said there was already a foot of snow Wednesday morning in parts of Dutchess County, NY, and more was expected to fall throughout the day. Electric utility National Grid said 58,654 customers were without power Wednesday morning in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as a result of the storm. Ther...

Perry urges crackdown on sanctuary cities
KSAT in San Antonio on what Rick Perry is calling a "legislative emergency". Met with applause by the largest Republican majority ever to convene in the Texas House, Gov. Rick Perry declared abolishing sanctuary city rules a legislative emergency for action in the first 30 days of the new session. "Immigration laws and their enforcement are the responsibility of the Federal Government," Perry said. However, he also said Texas lawmakers "cannot compound their failure by preventing Texas peace o...

College kids feeling passion for conference
By Steve Almasy , CNN The Passion conference is more than just a huge gathering of college-age kids, organizers say.  the recent Atlanta conference was a call for the next generation to make Jesus a focal point in their lives and to share that passion with others, they said. "Church was never meant to be an island of self-indulgence, but a missional community of Jesus-followers so in love with Him that they can do nothing else but carry His name to the world," pastor Louie Giglio sa...

'Rhino poachers' shot in S Africa
Five suspected rhino poachers have been shot dead in South Africa's biggest game park in the last four days. Park officials say that three suspects were killed in a shootout with police in the Pretoriuskop area of the Kruger National Park on Tuesday. Another two were killed near the border with Mozambique on Saturday. In 2010, 333 rhinos were shot in South Africa for their horns, which are sold in the black market for medicine and aphrodisiacs in Asia. The figure represents a rise of about...

Scott planning to return to Cavaliers next season
By Doug Doughty One day after it was announced that he would miss the rest of this season, Virginia Basketball standout Mike Scott seemed fully committed to a return for a fifth year. Scott, who soon will undergo a second operation on an injured left ankle, seemingly meets all the criteria for a successful hardship appeal to the NCAA. "I definitely wanted to come back," Scott said in a Tuesday teleconference. "As far as a professional career, I've think I had a pretty good season ...

Hohenfels' Tompkins a quick study on court
In his 13 months in Hohenfels, All-Europe senior guard Jamie Tompkins has developed a knack for getting the most of what appears at first to be a step down. First, Tompkins, who just turned 18, was faced with leaving the high-profile hoops world of Charleston, W.Va., and AAU ball there to toil in the obscurity - especially in the eyes of stateside college recruiters - of DODDS-Europe Division II Basketball in remote Bavaria. Tompkins chose to make the best of it. The former reserve in West Vir...

Nuggets Billups Forges On In Midst Of Melo-Drama
NEW YORK (AP) — After months of constant trade speculation surrounding Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets fans have pretty much accepted the notion the All-Star forward will soon be leaving. Harder to digest is the realization he might be taking hometown hero Chauncey Billups with him. Billups’ name was dragged into this Melo-drama over the weekend in the most recent round of trade chatter, a proposed three-team deal involving Detroit and New Jersey and at least 13 players. The point gu...

JCC men get 28 points from Blue to earn win
Jabriel Blue scored 28 points to lead host Jefferson Community College past Tompkins-Cortland CC 92-80 in a Mid-State Athletic Conference men's Basketball game on Tuesday. James Blue added 19 points, nine rebounds, eight assists and four steals, while Isaac Bushey had 10 points and 13 rebounds for Jefferson CC (8-8, 2-1). Jailaan Kinsey paced Tompkins-Cortland CC with 27 points. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOMPKINS-CORTLAND CC 66, JCC 55 Caitlyn Potter netted 29 points as the Panthers downed th...