Kiwi's violent meltdown sparked by Aussie mocking of accent - New Zealand Herald
27 May 2012, 10:07 pm
The 44-year-old Griffith man, who immigrated to Australia from New Zealand, allegedly assaulted and intimidated a WIN Television employee after the station aired a satirical ad for furniture seller Knockonwood, the Area News reported. It features two birds ...

Dario Franchitti unflappable at Indy - ESPN
27 May 2012, 7:08 pm
"Jackie Stewart brought him up right," she said of the three-time Formula One driver who mentored Franchitti, grandson of an Italian restaurateur who immigrated to Edinburgh. And, "Jim Clark is looking down on him," she said of the driver who ...

Riverview Cemetery is Jefferson City’s newest Landmark - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
27 May 2012, 4:49 am
Many public servants are memorialized at Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City. Some survived the Civil War, others immigrated here after that dividing point in Missouri history and others were pioneers long before the 1860s. But the recently ...

HIGH-STAKES COMPETITION: High Point girl heads for National Spelling Bee - High Point Enterprise
26 May 2012, 11:20 pm
Well, consider that while her parents – Aminu and Sitina – met and married in the United States, they immigrated here from Ethiopia. Neither of them spoke good English during Nejat’s formative years, and in fact they spoke different regional dialects ...

Pilipinas Global Network launches new Filipino TV Channels in the U.S. - Examiner
26 May 2012, 11:38 am
Many newly immigrated Filipinos along with long time residents still yearn to see their own on TV. Now they can as the Philippines fastest growing broadcast network in the Philippines, TV5 launching two international channels Kapatid TV5 and Aksyon TV ...

Halifax doctor gives needy Bolivian children a chance - Globe and Mail
25 May 2012, 4:33 pm
The Reason: To improve the lives of impoverished children in Bolivia. When Ivar Mendez immigrated to Canada from Bolivia as a teenager, his homeland was never far from his heart. Even after becoming a renowned neurosurgeon and chair of the Brain Repair ...

Divers searching for St. Scholastica student missing in Lake Michigan find body - Chicago Tribune
25 May 2012, 12:15 pm
Lexie Adu, 15, whose family immigrated from Ghana and who was born in the United States, disappeared just before 6 p.m. Thursday as she swam at Loyola Park Beach. She was with two other girls from the West Rogers Park Catholic high school ...

When Wayne was a Whippersnapper: James Robison - Daily Record
23 May 2012, 2:52 am
James Robison was born on Feb. 17, 1787, in Franklin County, Pa., and in 1813 immigrated to Wayne County, temporarily settling in embryonic Wooster while he began construction of a sawmill on the Little Killbuck Creek in the southeast corner of ...

Vaccarezza's Victor - by Esther Marr - Bloodhorse.com
22 May 2012, 12:04 pm
In the early 1970s, about 10 years after Carlo Vaccarezza had immigrated to the United States from his native Genoa, Italy, he found himself walking hots and serving as a groom at Aqueduct during the New York racetrack’s frigid winter meet.

Jewish Man Murdered in Yemen - Arutz Sheva
22 May 2012, 9:41 am
The man has been identified as Aharon Zindani. Zinadi had made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel from Yemen, but later returned to Yemen. In 2008 Torah teacher Moshe Nahari was shot dead in Sanaa. The murderer was a Muslim man who killed Nahari in ...