NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago. That did not mean the state survived the storm without damage. A levee in the southeast part of the state was on the verge of collapse, and officials scrambled ...

Telegraph.co.ukUN: Georgians effectively blocked from homesThe Associated Press - 3 hours agoTBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Russian troops remaining in Georgian territory are effectively preventing Georgians from returning to their homes, a UN representative said Saturday.Video: Russia takes a stand RussiaTodayRussia says it implements ceasefire agreement XinhuaRTT News - Reuters UK - Arizona Republic - International Herald Tribuneall 6,656 news articles

Scratching For ScholarshipsThe Morning News, AR - 19 hours agoBy Dan Craft FAYETTEVILLE - Scratch off the silvery coating on a quick-pick card or match the numbers on a lottery ticket, and you could win something. ...

John McCain said the Republican National Convention may be postponed as federal officials said Hurricane Gustav was gathering to a devastating Category 5 as it headed toward star-crossed New Orleans. "It just wouldn't be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster," McCain told Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday," in an interview taped for tomorrow. "So we're monitoring it from ...

Times OnlineMushrooms cause second mid-air emergency for Ryanair jetTelegraph.co.uk - 1 hour agoA Ryanair holiday jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a jar of mushroom soup leaked from an overhead locker onto a passenger causing a freak allergic reaction.SOS and O2 aboard Ryanair aircraft Times OnlineAA jet makes emergency landing at LAX Texas Cable NewsReuters - guardian.co.uk - Bloomberg - AFPall 1,013 news articles

BBC NewsZimbabwe: Mr Speaker, Hooligans in the HouseAllAfrica.com - 9 hours agoA VISITOR would have been forgiven for mistaking it for a high school gathering going by the raucous behaviour, infantile interjections and heckling that went on as President Mugabe delivered his address during the official opening of the First Session ...Robert Mugabe plunges Zimbabwe into crisis with plan to ignore MDC Times OnlineZimbabwe opposition denounces Mugabe's govt plans AFPThe Associated Press - Aljazeera.net - ...

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year and a half, you probably know about the discussion and approval of the UA no-tobacco policy, which doesn't outline any punishments for violators who are caught smoking on campus. And, just like it seems, the problem lies within the vagueness of the policy - UA students are either ignoring their new tobacco-free campus, or they're very confused.

The upcoming November election is going to be quite a showdown and not just here in Fayetteville. Besides mayoral elections in cities across Arkansas, voters are going to be asked to adopt a state-wide lottery and to keep them gays away from our children…you know…because their icky gay disease might rub off on the unsuspecting, otherwise-homeless little tots. Last month when signatures were first turned in, the count of valid names was about 4,000 short. ...

Daily Star - LebanonSudanese Passenger Plane Hijacked, Lands in LibyaVoice of America - 36 minutes agoBy VOA News A Sudanese passenger plane carrying at least 100 passengers and crew has been hijacked and diverted to a town in southeastern Libya.Sudan says airliner hijacked in southern Darfur The Associated PressSudan plane hijacked to Libya CNNAljazeera.net - CNN International - Daily Star - Lebanon - Telegraph.co.ukall 288 news articles

House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of "Drill here! Drill now!" Pelosi paused and asked the group, "Right here?" Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: "Can we drill your brains?" More on Democratic Convention

We made new shirts and we'll be giving them away during Razorbash on Wednesday, August 28th along with the old t shirts and other prizes including the first volume of the KXUA local compilation album!The Razorbash is held in the Union Mall. Look for us in the middle.

Students will remain largely unaffected by the UA's new tobacco-free policy due to its lack of enforcement. As of July 1, 2008, the University is entirely tobacco-free; meaning no tobacco product of any variety can be used on campus. This policy applies to students, faculty, visitors and staff.

The Fox News Channel has taken out an ad in Monday's Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and trade publication Multichannel News highlighting recent findings from a study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which found that Fox News' audience is more balanced along party lines than either CNN's or MSNBC's. The ad, exclusively obtained by the Huffington Post, targets CNN specifically, inserting the word "partisan" into CNN's "CNN = Politics" ...

We’ve all heard of Bigfoot, right? (PS - Turns out that Bigfoot “corpse” turned out to be a hoax). But did you know that Arkansas has a mysterious, lesser-known creature of it’s own? Yup, the Fouke Monster is Arkansas’ very own monster legend. Although some claim that the Fouke Monster (Named after Fouke, Arkansas, the area where it was first sighted) first appeared in the 1940’s, the first real reports of the beast surfaced in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind. In a yearlong review of levee work here, The Associated Press has tracked a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and legal fighting, along with economic and engineering miscalculations since ...

Net Applications Global Internet Usage Market Share shows iPhone usage is surging...

U of A Spurns Initiative To Lower Drinking AgeKHBS/KHOG 40/29, AR - 6 hours agoFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A group of more than 100 university presidents across the country is calling for the drinking age to be lowered from 21 to 18. ...