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Selling a stolen drill press while on probation sent a man to jail for 120 days. Timothy Charles Baxter, 38, of Sarnia pled guilty Thursday in Sarnia court to defrauding a store, violating a probation order and possession of break-in tools and ...

Someone picked up scissors and snipped our mentalities. Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like ...

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has appointed Charles Austen Angell as its new board chairman. On May 1 he began his two-year term along with six new directors. "We're living in one of the most exciting eras of design with ...

Award-winning South African playwright and director Charles J. Fourie's latest play SACRIFICE featuring famed local stage and film actor Peter Butler will be staged at the New Africa Theatre from 29 May to 8 June. The production with supporting ...

Boot up: Google I/O, Android profit share, Thorsten Heins v PCs, and more Charles Arthur, guardian.co.ukGuardian A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google I/O: the liveblog >> Guardian Technology Amanda Holpuch ...

Director Baz Luhrmann tells Charles McGrath about his attempts at delivering a close re-interpretation of the 1925 novel NOT to sound idiotic or pretentious, but I never start these things to be controversial, Baz Luhrmann said recently in his ...

Rethink Robotics today announced the launch of the Baxter Research Robot, a humanoid robot with two arms powered by a revolutionary new Software Development Kit (SDK) that will allow researchers to create a wide array of custom applications for ...

Baxter Theatre Centre Thirty five-star reviews and seven top theatre awards later, Mies Julie comes full circle and returns home to the Baxter for a limited season in June. The Baxter Theatre Centre's smash-hit play Mies Julie, written and directed ...

Editor's note: Michele Weldon is an author, assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University and a leader with The OpEd Project. (CNN) -- Believing that celebrity and success -- even attractiveness -- guarantee immunity from domestic ...