A two-state committee working to protect water supplies on the South Carolina-Georgia border that come from the Savannah River basin has urged the Army Corps of Engineers to reduce the flow from several reservoirs upstream to levels not normally set until mid-December. But as Georgia became one of the nation's fastest-growing states, its capital grew to more than 4.5 million people, and the '50s-era reservoir simply could not keep up. After years of eyeing Atlanta's increasing thirst,...

The freeze, along with the bank accounts of Ivory Coast's Coffee and Coca Marketing Agency and the Control and Regulatory Fund, comes as part of a fraud investigation ordered by Ivorian President Laurent Gbabgo into the three bodies that handle tax levies on the country's cocoa. dollar, safe-haven buying and stronger oil prices - cautioned that the "market risk is that the FOMC doesn't cut the fed-funds rate next week. News that Ivory Coast's public prosecutor froze the bank account of the...

But in an eerie echo from the past, it turns out that the dyed-in-the-yarn, tightly-woven denim invented here at the height of the Depression is outlasting the mills that made it. Just last week came news of another round of layoffs at the sole surviving denim mill, the massive White Oak, in its heyday the largest, busiest denim loom in the world. Often, they're found stuffed in the crevices of rafters and floorboards, in place of insulation to keep out the wind and rain. The cloth version...

FBR officials flout rules for foreign training trips ISLAMABAD (October 28, 2007): Tax officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) have flouted rules for availing foreign training programs including scholarships/fellowships through direct nominations from various foreign missions. FBR officials flout rules for foreign training trips ISLAMABAD (October 28, 2007): Tax officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) have flouted rules for availing foreign training programs including...

The theme for this year's event is "Television Classics", and participants are invited to come dressed as their favorite television character. Games, crafts, face painting, hay rides, a cake walk and more are planned, along with pumpkin decorating, cake decorating and costume contests. For those seeking a more chilling experience, haunted houses will also be in abundance in the area each night. Director of Institutional Advancement To increase the financial support for the College through...

The fact that the region's only steel industry museum commemorates Carnegie's failure to resolve the bloody Homestead Strike is a sign of how controversial his legacy remains. The steel mills that once lined those rivers are mostly gone, and the curtains of soot they spewed have lifted to reveal a vibrant 21st century city. At age 33, Carnegie confided in his personal ledger that to continue devoting his life to "the amassing of wealth must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery,"...

Sandridge Partners, another farming entity, filed the lawsuit claiming the three board members voted to block Sandridge from using water it's entitled to because it would result in a loss of water to Paramount and Starrh. The two farming giants have three of the five seats on the water district's board of directors. Attorneys representing the water district and the three board members, William Phillimore and Robert Baker, executives for two Paramount business entities and Larry Starrh,...

The proposed southern portion of Texas 130, meant to ease traffic on Interstate 35, will be built a few miles west of Lockhart, and developers are already eyeing nearby land for residential projects. Few are predicting that housing prices in Lockhart will skyrocket in the near future. Prices are moderate, but that might not be the case for long. And Lockhart might also get its first downtown condominiums if the recent buyer of a four-story brick commercial building near the county...

The United States has argued that it sufficiently overhauled its cotton program when it scrapped two export credit guarantee programs and last year repealed the so-called Step-2 cotton-marketing program that made payments to exporters and domestic mill users as compensation for buying higher-priced American cotton. The United States has argued that it sufficiently overhauled its cotton program when it scrapped two export credit guarantee programs and last year repealed the so-called Step-2...