1. A Woodlawn man told the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Friday that someone stole an $1,800 tool from his work trailer parked in his front yard inside a 15-minute time span.

Homework on insurance, insurance on home work (Baltimore Sun)

O perating a small business from home can free entrepreneurs from the costs of leasing space and commuting. But too many of them may short-change themselves when it comes to buying insurance.

Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work (Hattiesburg American)

Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...

Gas line cut (The Sault Star)

Tenants were evacuated from a west-end home after a gas line was cut Saturday afternoon. A trench was being dug on the front lawn of a home in the 600 block of Wellington Street West in preparation for foundation work, said platoon chief Glen Coulter of Sault Ste. [...]

Yar’Adua Resumes Work Tomorrow (This Day)

Forty-eight hours after he returned back home from Saudi Arabia where he had spent 17 days performing the lesser hajj and also attending to his health, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is expected to resume work at his desk tomorrow, THISDAY checks have revealed.