Asbestos found in school?s flooring
Asbestos is found in the floor tiles of a Burrillville school.

Second tenant to open in new shopping center
A second business has decided to locate in the new shopping mall at the corner of Maple Street and Maple Valley Drive. Flooring Systems will be opening a new office there around the first of February.

Recreation Digest
BOWLING Bismarck Mandan USBC BA 78th Annual City Championships Team Event 1. K&K Flooring 3,266. 2. Tobacco Row #2 3,258. 3 Mandan Moose 3,208. Low Pay: 3,190. Scratch: Tobacoo Row #2 3,084.

Real Estate Close-Up: Miami
Despite record foreclosures, despite double-digit home price declines, and despite scary job losses, Miami's commercial real estate market has rolled with the punches _ until now. "We're in a better place than where people thought we would be because of the...

Grand view in grand style
Contemporary meets Old Hollywood in Granville Towers' opulent penthouse The Granville Towers, a French Normandy-style classic, is only seven stories. But the view from this penthouse -- with windows in every room -- spans the San Gabriel Mountains, the downtown skyline and Catalina Island.

Clark-Pleasant cuts $8M from school project
The Clark-Pleasant School Board cut about $8 million from its $60 million plan for a new middle school during a work session Thursday.

Real Estate Close-Up: Miami
Despite record foreclosures, despite double-digit home price declines, and despite scary job losses, Miami?s commercial real estate market has rolled with the punches - until now?.

State Farmers Market Restaurant Temporarily Closes Beginning Sunday
The State Farmers Market Restaurant will close Sunday, Jan. 11 for repairs and renovations but will reopen March 7.

House fire displaces Princeton Township family
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- Flames engulfed a house on Marion Road West in Princeton Thursday night, destroying the house and leaving little but rubble inside.

Home Calendar
A look at the week's home calendar events.

In tough times, you can remodel with paintbrush
Tough economic times may have put many a home renovation on the chopping block. But don't hang up your design dreams just yet.

It takes a team to beat a mouse
Although paperwork would suggest otherwise, we do not own this farm. Mice do.

Sports Guy: Award-winning picks for Round 2
Before making his picks for the divisional playoffs, Bill Simmons hands out some hardware for Round 1's best performances.

Several bids on new jail approved
Despite financial concerns, Cole County Commissioners on Thursday approved bids for work on several parts of the new county jail project. Officials with Septagon Construction, the jail project managers, went through the 122 bids and made recommendations.

New director for residence
A Chatham native has been appointed executive director of St. Andrew's Residence and St. Andrew's Terrace in Chatham. Carolynn Barko is also in charge of [...]

Park house to be raffled for charity
One lucky winner will be moving into a new Sherwood Park house valued at $1.3 million in the spring. Just who that will be has [...]

Glamour decorating keeps to budget
Remember flocked wallpaper? It's back. But it's not your mother's wallcovering. Nor is bamboo, which designers are using not just as environmentally friendly floor covering, but on walls, too.

Sanford No. 1 in Maine for home foreclosures
PORTLAND (AP) - Sanford is only the eighth largest community in Maine, but in terms of home foreclosures, it ranks No. 1.

Chosing commode a matter of style
"New toilets have raised things to a whole new level," says Cheryl Sych, a designer at Plumbers Equipment in Ross.

All the comforts of home, including the kitchen sink
MOST Victorians are familiar with Jeff's Shed, the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, but few would know about Geoff's Shed in Warrnambool. Tucked away behind a family home in Nicholson Street is the two...