Dorris L. Johnson BIRMINGHAM - Dorris L. Johnson, 83, a native of Newton County, died Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, at his home in Birmingham. He served in World War II for two and a half years and was an engineer for the 245th Engineer Combat Battalion.

Edith M. Barnum Sept. 8, 1925-Feb. 22, 2009 Former Gresham resident Edith M. Barnum, 83, died Sunday, Feb. 22, at her home in Milwaukie. A visitation will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at Bateman Carroll Funeral Home, 520 W. Powell Blvd. A celebration of life will be at 1 p.m. ...

There has been a sad ending to the story about a whale languishing in the waters off Whangaparoa Peninsula north of Auckland.

Make your winter carp fishing far more productive! From improving bait digestion, to flavours, special digestible ingredients, refined techniques and specialist winter methods of fishing baits are all discussed. Many bait making lessons gleaned from commercial winter feeds too! By a bait making expert and a highly successful big carp and catfish catcher...

Theres no place like Ocala Florida. If you want to make your fishing vacation more pleasant by remembering that it is a fishing vacation, make it a point that you are prepared to enjoy the whole experience, which includes kicking back and enjoying your friends, your surroundings, and your brief respite from the daily cares of your life. But some of the people who spend their vacation do it not simply to relax themselves from their stressful days but they go for bass fishing for a purpose. There enters the tournament, the competition of big bass fish fever caught by many anglers.

The Liberal National Party says it would do a better job than Labor of managing the economy and creating jobs.

Enver Larney www.enver.net When did you first become interested in art? At around the age of three. I grew up under apartheid South Africa. Art was a means out of a tough situation which required immediate address. Even then, I had to be careful of what I produced. What style of art do you use most? Impressionism. I was attracted to Impressionism because it stood independently alone and challenged the order of the day and societally accepted mores and norms. Even today

President Barack Obama is on the wrong side of the argument over expanding offshore drilling. His administration has promised to put limits on energy development along the nation's coasts. We believe in the opposite - utilizing our own domestic resources as much as possible to help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Reducing fishing capacity and limiting access to shrimp fisheries is likely to mitigate overfishing, bycatch and seabed destruction, some of the major economic and environmental side-effects of shrimp fishing, according to a new report FAO published during the week.