Motels Report Record High Vacancies
Once the choice for truckers, construction workers and lovers with a secret, the small, low- budget motels along the highway have, like many businesses, fallen victim to a sluggish economy. Motel owners say their vacancy rates are at all-time highs.

More Bed Bugs Spread Across Central Ohio
HEALTH ALERT: More than a dozen motels and apartments have been hit hard by bed bugs and more outbreaks are expected. Get details.

Homeless for the holidays
COEUR d'ALENE -- Each morning, this mom wakes up and wonders what else will go wrong. Homeless since August, she and her husband and their two young children have been living in motels trying to survive and stay together.

Downturn: Berlin Turnpike Motels Report Record High Vacancies
Vyto Treciokas will cut you a deal on a room at the Terra Motel on the Berlin Turnpike, but he won't rent by the hour.

Why NBA defenses don't stay in a zone
Why don't NBA teams use more zone defenses? Charley Rosen says there are many reasons, including marksmen like Ray Allen.

Provident Bank to aid Route 1 revitalization in Howard County
Provident Bank has signed on to a Howard County loan program aimed at revitalizing Route 1. (PBKS) (BBT) (MTB) (PNC)

Editorials from around Pennsylvania
MANAGING GROWTH A REASON FOR REGIONALISM:

53 occupants kicked out of St. Petersburg hotel
ST. PETERSBURG (Bay News 9) -- Five o'clock was literally closing time Wednesday evening at the JMS Hotel on 34th Street South in St. Petersburg.

The Garden City Telegram
The Online Edition of the Garden City Telegram features local and national news, sports, videos, local classifieds and obituaries. GCT serves southwest Kansas and is located in Finney County.

Contract worker reported missing in PA
Port Arthur police are asking for the public?s help in locating a missing Delaware man who was working construction in the Port Arthur area. Michael Jodean Bailey, 31, was last heard from Nov. 19, and his family, located in Delaware, fear something has happened to him.

Meyers: Slumping economy grabs anglers' attention
Headlines all over the country have trumpeted the current dour economic condition as the harbinger of a new frugality.

Alabama Tax Collections Fall Flat
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's tax collections are nearly flat through the first two months of the fiscal year, as Alabamians earn more but spend less...

Councilors defer tax increase
OBJECTIONS to the exemption from amusement tax of establishments covered by the proposed ordinance raising amelioration tax to P10 from P1 per customer led the Cebu City Council yesterday to defer approval of the measure.

Money matters at local food pantry
When it comes to donating, Curtis Viator stresses the advantages of giving money over actual food items.

Smoke-free mandate set to begin Jan. 1
ONTARIO ? Oregon smokers will be compelled to pay careful attention to where they light up starting Jan. 1 when the state?s  new Smokefree Workplace Law goes into effect.

Helpingthe needy in Hunterdon County
Local compassionate organizations that provide food to individuals and families in need say they will be able to meet area need for Thanksgiving.

Life beyond the cities
DESPITE its vastness, Australia's attention is focused in narrow areas.

Hotel tax down; restaurant tax up slightly
Convention and Visitors Bureau director Terry Cook admitted he was a little puzzled with Harrison?s collections from its hospitality tax on restaurants and hotels and motels.

Can-do attitudes
?Muscles ? wow!? Sara Waeckerle yelled in encouragement as she shuffled around Stevens High School janitorial staff and fellow students as they loaded heavy boxes onto carts.

Voters OK fund transfer
NEWRY - About a dozen voters at Monday's special town meeting OK'd transferring $15,842 from capital projects to a roads account to cover a ledge-blasting cost overage regarding Sunday River Road.