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Wood County authorities said an Oklahoma man piloting a crop-dusting helicopter crashed after a bee got sucked into the cockpit and stung him.Deputy Ted Ashbeck said the chopper was only four feet off the ground, and the pilot was unhurt when the tail...
The Modesto Bee is offering buyouts to all its full-time employees, the newspaper’s second round of buyout offers this year.
As it turned out, Sameer Mishra provided more than just comic relief at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He ended up winning the title.The 13-year-old from West Lafayette, Ind., who often had the audience laughing with his one-line commentaries...
Matthew Evans heard the bell, slumped his shoulders, lowered his head and slowly walked offstage. He stayed in the comfort room for more than a half-hour, and his eyes were still red when he emerged, his hopes of winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee...
The little red-and-white maple leaf flags in the audience didn’t wave in triumph one single time Friday. The semifinals of the Scripps Nationals Spelling Bee turned into a major Canadian wipeout.One by one, every speller from British Columbia to Quebec...
Thomas North sounded a little groggy Tuesday morning, having experienced what he called a “pretty erratic” sleep pattern during his first 24 hours in the United States.Who could blame him? Of the record 288 competitors in this year’s Scripps National...
At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.The attacked occurred Monday in Tapachula, Chiapas, after one of the policemen hit the bees’ hive...
Oregon farmers are hoping that the state’s premier academics will help them figure out what is causing a sudden decline in the bee population that’s hitting home in the Pacific Northwest.Bees are critical for the pollination of signature Oregon crops,...
The Sacramento Bee on Monday named a new publisher to guide the newspaper as it struggles with declining revenue and tries to extend its reach on the Internet.Cheryl Dell, president and publisher of The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., will replace Janis...
The Scripps National Spelling Bee announced Tuesday it would allow northwest Missouri’s top speller to participate in the national competition, even though she was disqualified last week.”After further consideration, we’ve determined that Morgan Brown...
In UK, city dwellers are being encouraged to keep bees. A flower show has been organised to motivate people for the same and improve the dwindling population of bees in the country. Bees have lost some of their natural habitats in the...
It is previously ‘proven’ that bees cannot fly. So, to learn the forces actually at work during honeybee flight, Michael Dickinson, an insect flight expert and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena, California, US decided to investigate it. As a result,...
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People walk into the Sacramento Bee newspaper, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, Sacramento, Calif. The Sacramento Bee is offering voluntary buyouts to a majority of its full-time employees in the latest round of cost-cutting at the newspaper. Sacramento-based...
