Oxford Heights Community Watch to meet. The Oxford Heights Community Watch group will meet in the former council chambers in the Midgett Building today at 7 p.m.

Blood drives. The Greater Albemarle Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold blood drives at Roanoke Bible College, today from 10 a.m.

Scooter rider, 87, dies of injuries

AN elderly man has died from injuries he suffered when he was struck at a pedestrian crossing in Brisbanes bayside last Wednesday.

Amgen Tour to bring flurry to Solvang

The Amgen Tour of California returns Thursday to San Luis Obispo and Friday to Solvang, bringing with it top international bicyclists, worldwide media coverage, thousands of cowbell-equipped spectators - and a number of road closures.

The Tour of California, the nation's largest and most competitive professional cycling tour, is a 650-mile, eight-stage race, similar in format to the Tour de France.

The race, which began Sunday with a prologue time trial in Palo Alto, will continue south near the California

coastline until it finishes in Pasadena on Sunday. In prior years, the route has been lined with thousands of spectators each day.

Thursday's fourth stage will be a long, scenic 135-mile ride along Highway 1 starting at 10 a.m.

Kaufman County sheriff candidate indicted on oppression charges

Frankum called it "dirty tricks" in January when a warrant was issued for his arrest in a separate case based on allegations that he had stolen police equipment from his former department.

Mr. Frankum, who was expected to turn himself in on Monday, did not return calls for comment.

David Montague, spokesman for the Tarrant County district attorney's office, confirmed Monday that a grand jury on Feb. 7 indicted Mr. Frankum on three counts involving two complainants, whom Mr. Montague declined to identify.

Mr. Montague said he did not know when the original complaints that led to the indictments were made or whether they originated with an agency other than the district attorney's office.

All the incidents allegedly happened between February and August 2006 while Mr. Frankum was employed by the Police Department in Pelican Bay, a town of about 1,600 northwest of Fort Worth in Tarrant County.

2008 Bonnaroo lineup announced

At the same time, Over the Rhine hoped to transcend the nitty-gritty torch song, offering listeners a tantalizing glimpse of something spiritual.

Coastal Post Online

The West Marin Medical Center in Point Reyes Station is one of the things that makes present West Marin what it is for the rest of us. Dr. Molly Bourne has been one of the best things around West Marin. Not just because she is a really nice lady, but because she embodies what is good and true here in West Marin. She IS what medicine SHOULD be all about. She was always open to new ideas and added her creativeness to our need for health care. She cares and takes more than the proscribed 10 minutes allowed by Managed Care, per patient. She seemed to actually know each of us as a human being. She is/was a gift to West Marin. One we are losing.
Molly Bourne got broad-sided by Managed Care and the crazy reality of our nation's for-big-profit-to-stockholders health system. An excellent and caring physician is leaving us because the overall system of health care in this county is a travesty of unfairness to doctor and patient alike.

Trust fund set up for slain man’s family

So far a total of $10,000 has been collected; $5,000 from Progenics Cord Blood Cryobank, $4,000 from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto) and $1,000 from the Toronto Alliance Church. “We are very fortunate to be able to establish a bank account through Scotiabank. We believe that this is a community that supports each other," said Dale Chung, president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto) with the help of Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow, who translated his comments.Chow, the wife of Toronto-Danforth MP and NDP leader Jack Layton, encouraged people to remember that Mao was a father like any other who just wanted the best for his family.“Mr. Mao worked day in and day out to stack fruit in the cold for his children. I believe that his hope is really to support his family," she said, pointing to the generosity of Torontonians towards the Zhang family following the murder of their nine-year-old daughter Cecilia.“I urge people to donate and support the two young people in front of me." Chow added that politicians are looking at banning handguns, creating youth employment programs and putting more cops on the street but that “in the meantime, let's work to make sure Mr.

DVD reviews

The second collection of Joan Crawford films is even better than the first, covering a wider range of her career and unearthing more than the usual suspects. The earliest of the films is the pre-Code "Sadie McKee" (1934), with Crawford climbing up the social ranks and having romances along the way. The latest film in the five-disc collection is "Torch Song" (1953), with Crawford as a bitter Broadway star who comes under the spell of a blind piano player. It's total, crazy camp and irresistible. In between, there are good entries that cover Crawford's prime, such as "A Woman's Face" (1941), about a scarred woman whose life is transformed by plastic surgery, and "Strange Cargo" (1940), a religious allegory co-starring Clark Gable. Finally, there's "Flamingo Road" (1949), with Crawford as a city woman who finds herself stuck in a small Southern town.