Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories 12-year-old's African plant could garner world record By RICHARD PAYERCHIN, Sandusky Bureau Chief 11/08/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly BERLIN TOWNSHIP -- A young gardener could set a world record with a flower that this year has grown almost twice as tall as she is. Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories 12-year-old's African plant could garner world record By RICHARD PAYERCHIN, Sandusky Bureau Chief 11/08/2007 Email to a...

On the flensing floor, the men blessed it with rice wine -- then hacked through blubber and sinew with long-handled knives, slicing vermilion flesh from the massive spine. When people here speak of tradition, they mean family-owned company boats targeting small game just 20 miles from the shore, rather than the Japanese factory fleets, which range as far afield as the Antarctic and pull in a total of more than 1,000 whales per year. Even though the 1986 international moratorium on...

They all mean the same thing, which is that all of those new diesels come with an exhaust stream technology that employs urea to help break down nitrogen oxides. ET to answer your questions on every aspect of the automotive industry -- from buying your dream car to the future of the internal combustion engine. While I lament the loss of jobs and the personal difficulties those losses will cause, I must acknowledge that all of those cuts are necessary and long overdue. I love your chats and...

Bangladesh Cyclone Death Toll at 2,400 BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,400 on Monday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas. Bangladesh Cyclone Death Toll at 2,400 BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,400 on Monday and relief officials warned the figure could jump...

Originally scheduled to be closed by the end of this year, the final production of tillage and fertilizer equipment has delayed that until at least March 2008. CNH is shifting production to an underutilized plant in Canada, and of the 222 workers told they d lose their jobs, just over 100 remain, spokesman Tom Witom said. Witom said that the final production is because of market demand, while almost everyone else has heard the Saskatchewan plant is having trouble with its new workload. The...

LAKELAND . More than 600 union workers at three Mosaic co. fertilizer plants in Polk County solidly approved Friday a new three-year contract that provides for at least 3 percent annual wage increases and preserves the current pension system. Workers at Mosaic's four Polk phosphate mines and other fertilizer plants are covered under separate contracts negotiated by other unions. But the contract also removes caps on the employee contribution to health insurance coverage beginning in 2010,...