Hotel guests become friends after Joplin tornado - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
28 May 2012, 4:19 am
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — "Big Fat Lies" is the name of the game. Usually, the men and women square off against each other, said Randy Stanley, who has served as a game moderator of sorts. The game, developed by Mental Floss magazine, is a deceptive ...

Family, friends Honor Fallen Vietnam Hero - PennLive.com
28 May 2012, 3:58 am
DALLAS - As Mary Nice looked up at her brother's picture on the banner declaring him a "Hometown Hero," she couldn't resist a smile, although her eyes were misty with unshed tears. "It's an honor," she said as her daughter Mary Lynn and grandson Greg ...

Concerns around slow disbursement of friends of Yemen grants to Yemen - Yemen Times
28 May 2012, 2:32 am
SANA’A, May 24 — The friends of Yemen, a group of countries including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in addition to the Gulf states, are on a tough mission to bring about political and security stability in Yemen through four ...

Monday's final pits best friends in Loyola's Charley Toomey, Maryland's John Tillman - Chicago Tribune
27 May 2012, 7:37 pm
Loyola coach Charley Toomey is fond of saying that he’s rarely surprised when he returns to his family’s home in Anne Arundel County, and Maryland coach John Tillman is sitting on his sofa watching television. In his own defense, Tillman ...

CUP: Johnson, Franchitti Are Fast friends - FOX News
27 May 2012, 7:12 am
They've got nine championships between them and a combined five victories on the single most prolific day of racing of the year. Dario Franchitti and Jimmie Johnson also share a friendship, even if it's from afar. They follow each other's races ...

Facebook Wants You to Star Your friends in Push for Lists - Mashable.com
25 May 2012, 2:53 pm
Facebook is testing a new feature called Close friends, which lets you know every action the people you add to the list take on the social network. Facebook told Mashable it began the push to some users Thursday. When you sign into Facebook, you ...

More relatives, friends caring for kids: report - YAHOO!
22 May 2012, 11:03 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Howard Dubowitz, a Maryland pediatrician and researcher who specializes in child protection issues, knows how hard it can be to raise other people's children. Over the years while talking with grandparents and others who take on the ...

Billy Bob Thornton: Angelina Jolie And I Are 'Great friends' - Huffington Post
22 May 2012, 7:21 pm
Billy Bob Thornton stopped by "Anderson" on Monday and opened up about ex-wife Angelina Jolie, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2003. "We're friends. We've always been friends," said Thornton, whose new memoir, "The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave ...

friends, family remember slain West Bloomfield teen with funny stories, tears - Detroit Free Press
22 May 2012, 9:48 am
More than 700 friends, family and classmates gathered at a Southfield funeral chapel today to mourn 17-year-old Jonathan Hoffman. Rabbi Joshua Bennett of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield told mourners not to dwell on the circumstances of the ...

Chen Guangcheng's family and friends 'still at risk' in China - The Guardian
20 May 2012, 9:25 pm
Supporters of Chen Guangcheng have warned that his family and friends in China are still at risk after the blind activist arrived in New York to begin a new life in the United States. Chen — whose daring escape from house arrest last month ...