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Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- China Southern Airlines Co. and the nation's other carriers flew 15 percent more passengers during last week's national holidays after the Beijing Olympics and natural disasters curbed travel earlier in the year.
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Two Chinese dissidents are among this year's Nobel Peace Prize contenders, prompting moves by leaders in Beijing to pre-emptively counter possible negative attention on their human rights record.
Chinese authorities launched an investigation Monday into an industrial landslide that buried a village in northern China, amid claims that officials initially downplayed the scale of the tragedy, a state news agency reported.
With a stellar performance from the U.S. men’s volleyball team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Marion Chlebana, the founder and director of the Texas ThunderVolleyball Club, hopes to take the excitement from the games to begin the area’s first boys volleyball program.
Several great high school athletes and teams have graced Burlington County during the past 50 years. The Burlington County Times has had the privilege of being present for their triumphs. It is difficult to sort through the cast of characters and the memories to produce a sampling of the top sports stories.
Our worries. They're crescendoing like the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth": Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression.
BALTIMORE — An unheeded whistle resulted in a penalty that helped fuel the Titans for victory over the Ravens.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Barry Switzer hasn’t seen a game in Reynolds Razorback Stadium in a very long time.
Larry Probst, chairman of the largest video games publisher, is taking on the Olympic Games. Probst was named board chairman Thursday of the U.S. Olympic Committee, replacing Peter Ueberroth, whose four-year term expires this month.
Olympic gold medalists Ryan Lochte can now workout on a central Florida street that bears his name.
If you've been swimming, you probably tried it at least once: dive into the water and see how far you can get without taking a stroke. Coast past 62 feet and you could have earned a gold medal at the 1904 Olympics.
Stephanie Brown Trafton made her golden dream come true on Aug. 18 when she earned the gold medal in the women’s discus at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
WINDSOR LOCKS — Marching to the pounding drumbeats of the Olympics theme song, students at South Elementary School opened their 2008 Olympic games Thursday morning.
Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, has the nation's top-ranked football team. Many credit the squad's success to the town's large Tongan population — and the large players it produces. The team is at the core of two communities that believe in football and family.
More than 30,000 fans herald Michael Phelps' return to Baltimore area W ith cascades of shrieks and the pounding of oh-so-many teenage feet, they heralded his coming. At the center of the herd, rolling down York Road, was a National Guard Humvee with a lanky young man waving from its open roof.
ST. LOUIS -- Top names in international cycling will headline the second annual Tour of Missouri professional bicycle race that gets under way Monday.
(Editor's Note: Hammond's Erica Bartolina had her Olympics dream ended quickly Friday with three consecutive misses at her first height of 14-1. Today, after a few days to reflect, Bartolina checks in from the Beijing Olympics.)
- - - I walked in the Closing Ceremony (Sunday) night. It was a great experience, a great show and great closure to the Olympic Games.
BEIJING — The Lady Lion duo of Erica Bartolina and Christine Amertil had mixed results on the first night of track and field competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics as Amertil finished second in her 400-meter dash qualifying heat, but Bartolina could not clear 4.30m and recorded no mark in the qualifying rounds of the women’s pole vault.
Hammond residents Erica and Mike Bartolina are realistic about Erica's chances in the women's pole vault competition Friday night at the Beijing Olympics.
The Southeast Louisiana Roadrunners are making their way to the Motor City, looking to churn out individual titles during the 2008 AAU Junior Olympic Games.
