Western Conference Finals Game 1 Halftime Update: Derek Fisher is the ghost that keeps haunting - CBS Sports
27 May 2012, 8:48 pm
After 24 minutes of Game 1 in the Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder, it's a tight one, to put it mildly. The Thunder lead by one, thanks to some unlikely contributions. The breakdown. Ginobili is 4-7 from the ...

Flag of his father: A Vietnam veteran wants to return a bloodstained Japanese flag his father took as a trophy during World War II. - San Jose Mercury News
27 May 2012, 7:29 pm
On Memorial Day, veteran Charley Trujillo still has too many haunting memories of his war in Vietnam for peace of mind, even after all the therapy over all the years. But this year he has discovered an unusual war memory, one that has touched ...

Casseroles, Pots And Pans Protests In Quebec, Stir Memories In Chilean-Montrealers - huffingtonpost.ca
27 May 2012, 4:02 pm
MONTREAL - The deafening clangs of pots and pans on the streets of Montreal have evoked haunting memories for local restaurateur Pedro Gonzalez — and it has nothing to do with dish duty. Quebecers have turned up the volume during evening demonstrations ...

River Phoenix Returns From The Grave In haunting Film - PerezHilton.com
26 May 2012, 1:08 am
Has it really been 20 years?? The film River Phoenix was three weeks away from completing when he overdosed and died outside of The Viper Room will soon see the light of day. Dark Blood features Joaquin Phoenix's older brother as an unstable ...

Sound of My Voice’: haunting film from fascinating Brit Marling - Buffalo News
25 May 2012, 6:39 am
Brit Marling has, in short order, become one of my favorite people in movies. She has, at 30, written and starred in two films that, at the very least, have done one utterly remarkable thing: They each had an ending that screwed your head around ...

Pick of the week: haunting, gorgeous “Oslo, August 31st” - Salon
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
“Oslo, August 31st” is, as the title suggests, an evocation of one day in the Norwegian capital, as experienced by a troubled young man who’s facing the end of summer and the end of his youth. It’s a marvelously constructed personal ...

haunting images of dozens of dead children in Syria, among 90 killed in new regime attack - Washington Post
23 May 2012, 8:00 am
BEIRUT — Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria’s 14 ...

Jeff Gerritt: Decision to close Mound prison in Detroit is haunting state - Detroit Free Press
23 May 2012, 2:23 am
Last year, Mound Correctional Facility on Detroit's east side held more than 1,000 inmates -- most of them from the Detroit area. The state closed the prison in January, however, sending those inmates to prisons throughout Michigan, including ...

The haunting photographs of early 20th century American child workers that helped change labour laws - Daily Mail
22 May 2012, 11:24 pm
Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, sociologist Lewis Hine documented the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. He travelled around 50,000 miles a year ...

Two harrowing US military rescues offer haunting portrait of Afghan war - The Christian Science Monitor
22 May 2012, 2:06 pm
Special Operations Forces were pinned down in the violent southern region of Kandahar when Air Force pararescuers got the call to come to their aid. The Air Force’s 34th Weapons Squadron’s Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) team, comprised of ...