Obituaries: ; Obit

Today's Obituaries Blake, Dorothy P. Butts, Timmy R. Campbell,Shirley E. Dennis, William P. Dunbar, Margaret I. Ellis, Robert V.Holstein, Rabon Hopkins, Edna J. Johnson, Betty V. O'Leary, SisterA. Pence, Mason Rhodes, Bradford C. Roberts, Paul D. Roush, WaldenF. Shockey, Denzil W. Starcher, Roy F. Stec, James A.

Dorothy Persinger Blake

Dorothy Persinger Blake, 78, of Smithfield, Va., died Oct. 3,2009. Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Simons-ColemanFuneral Home, Richwood. Interment will be at Memorial Gardens,Calvin. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until the time of the serviceTuesday at the funeral home.

Timmy Ray Butts

Timmy Ray Butts, 36, of …

MEETINGS.(Capital Region)

Stillwater School Board

Tuesday, April 7

Approved warrants for the capital project.

Recognized student Chris Stewart for attaining the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.

Recognized Richard Talbot, Math League adviser, and his students for work this past year.

Upcoming: Next meeting, 7:30 p.m. April 21

Ballston Town Board

Tuesday, April 7

Approved use of four voting machines and the services of a voting machine custodian by the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake schools for the May 19 annual election.

Approved attendance by the highway superintendent at a June 1-3 highway school in …

49ERS QB CHARGED WITH RAPE.(SPORTS)

Byline: Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Jim Druckenmiller's already uncertain future with the San Francisco 49ers took a disturbing turn Friday when the backup quarterback was indicted on a rape charge. Druckenmiller denied the allegations.

Druckenmiller took part Friday in the opening of the team's three-day mini camp and coach Steve Mariucci said he would be permitted to continue practicing with the team while the criminal case goes through the courts.

Druckenmiller is accused of assaulting a Virginia Tech student in early March when he returned to Blacksburg, Va., for a visit. The indictment was unsealed Friday by the order of a …

Paradigm Genetics Inc. (Biotech People).

Michael Liebman, Ph.D., has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of Paradigm Genetics Inc. (Nasdaq: PDGM) of Research Triangle Park. Liebman is the director of biomedical informatics at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the …

Online encyclopedia provides rich resource [http://www.mhsc.ca/encyclopedia ]

It is not often that a quality product comes without a cost. An exception is the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (CMEO).

Several years ago, the Canadian Mennonite Historical Society deemed that an update of the Mennonite Encyclopedia would be too costly and opted for an electronic alternative.

The Committee of the online version includes Bert Friesen, Manitoba (chair); Sam Steiner, Ontario (managing …

Big winners: gubernatorial races. (U.S. Senate Election: Big Winners 2002).

 BIG WINNERS: Gubernatorial Races  Winning Candidates in Competitive Contests with National Significance (Most consultants who did related independent Expenditure/Issue ad work, as well as those who provided purely technical services as a vendor, are not included in this list, but are included in the alphabetical firm listings)  WINNING CANDIDATE         CONSULTANTS  Sonny Perdue (R-GA)       The Tarrance Group - Polling;                           Creative Direct - Direct Mail;                           Rob Simms - General; The                           Stoneridge Group - Direct Mail,                           Internet; Strategic Perceptions -                           Direct Mail; Watson Consulting -                           General  Robert Ehrlich (R-MD)     The Stevens & Schriefer Group … 

Landrieu Examines Disaster Recovery Efforts and Future Reform Needs.

Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., today held a hearing on disaster recovery efforts in Galveston, Texas, one year after Hurricane Ike devastated the region and four years after Hurricane Rita. Prior to the hearing, Senator Hutchison and Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas joined the Senator for a tour of the Island and its small businesses to review recovery progress (see also U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship).

The hearing and tour compared the federal, state and local governments' coordinated response to Hurricane Ike with the response three years earlier to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The response to Ike improved due to reforms spearheaded by …