Wanted: fun-loving folks for full- and part-time positions in retirement resort and RV park. Fixer-upper projects, landscaping, light carpentry, repairs and lawn care are part of the job in a laid-back, family-oriented environment. Work 10 hours a week each for a couple, or 20 hours for an individual, in return for a site with full hookups.   ON THE JOB - A group of happy workampers at Dollywood, a family theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. ... [full story]

Re: Long-sought ID Thief Apprehended Following Chase     Allow me to set the record straight....as i am the only one that knows the truth about everything...and also the only one willing to post my name..Maggie Mae??? The identity theft charges you all are referring to is a business deal went bad with a former board member and shareholder of my corporation. We had about a 4 year business relationship where Shirley Newman invested roughly $150,000 into my ... [full story]

Barely one hour into a morning hike, Malcolm Sargent, international authority on mosses and liverworts, fell to his knees in Singing Woods Nature Preserve near a family of ancient white oaks. He dropped his head to the ground and peered through his hand lens at a verdant mass on the early spring forest floor.   A LOOK UP CLOSE - Dr. Malcolm Sargent, a world-renowned authority on moss and lichens, takes a close look at a ... [full story]

He's the man who gave all of us our name - Homo sapiens, a scientist whose presence is as near as the garden out the back door. Yet, for many, Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus may be an obscure personage last dredged up as an answer on a high-school exam.   KING OF KINGDOMS - Carl Linnaeus established a naming system for plants and animals. At right is his 1737 illustration of Browallia. CNS Photo ... [full story]

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Coast Guard has been unable to find a whale carcass reported early Friday by a fishing boat just outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Bernadette Fees, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Game, told the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times that searchers also didn't see the kind of bird activity that would be expected if a dead whale was in the area. The fishing boat reported the ... [full story]

Ashley West talks fluently about vitamin C, dietary protein and sugar overload. Then she shakes her head and admits that until recently she ate Hershey's chocolate bars for breakfast. That touched off a lively 7:30 a.m. discussion at West's table in the cafeteria at Peoria's Manual High School in Illinois among 13- and 14-year-olds who just months ago breakfasted on Twizzlers, Now and Later bars, Froot Loops and Cheetos hot chips.   BETTER BREAKFASTS - Brian ... [full story]

MOSCOW - A top official in the Russian Interior Ministry claimed Friday investigators found links to an attack on a regional capital and Western intelligence agencies. The battle in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a semi-autonomous republic in the North Caucusus, killed 35 police officers and 12 civilians on Oct. 13, 2005. The next day, police struck back, killing 92 rebels. Russian Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelyov said that the ringleaders are believed to have been ... [full story]

MADRID - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she thinks democratic states are obligated to support the opposition in Cuba as the Castro era ends. En route to Spain following a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in Germany, said it's important to convince Cuba's leaders the world will not accept a "transition from one dictatorship to another." Rice said the United States and Spain are on different sides of the Cuba issue and she ... [full story]

Cakes that slide off the table, skunks threatening the flowers, candles melting in clumps! What is a bride to do when a disaster strikes her wedding? Calm down, say readers and experts in the field.   WEDDING DAZE - When it comes to weddings, you have to keep a sense of humor. CNS Illustration by Eri Hashimoto.  "When it comes to weddings, you have to keep a sense of humor. Don't get caught up in 'perfect' because ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. effort to put anti-missile defenses in former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe does not signal a new Cold War, President Bush said Friday. Bush met with foreign reporters as he prepared to leave for the G8 meeting in Germany and visits to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Italy. "Our message to -- and my personal message to Vladimir Putin is -- there's no need to try to relive the Cold War," the ... [full story]