By Sarah Peters Collegian Staff Writer Participants in Phi Delta Phi’s second annual Date Auction sat on black leather couches under the bright lights of the stage of the 797 Lounge, nervously waiting for the auction to start. Once the auction began, however, they loosened up, showing off their best poses, blowing kisses to the audience and taking bows in an attempt to increase the bidding, eventually...

Six Morris area churches will collect canned food and water until the end of the month to send to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and other local groups are planning various relief efforts. St. Matthew of the Apostle in Randolph is helping to organize the collection, which can be made there and at all the participating churches beginning Saturday and ending Jan. 31. In addition to St. Matthew, Our Lady of the Mountain...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and leaders of the nation’s largest African American fraternities enter National Mentoring Month 2010 with a bold action plan to significantly increase the number of black Big Brothers, beginning this year. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100108/PH34380 ) The plan is the result of Big Brothers Big Sisters African...

BY ADRIANA JANOVICH YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Jogging in the mornings, go man go Works out in the health spa, muscles glow” – “Macho Man,” the Village People, 1978 YAKIMA, Wash. — Not so young. Not so serious. Not so fast. Sure, they’re getting up there. Most are baby boomers, and a couple have already retired. But don’t let their name fool you. The members of the Not So...

December 24, 2009 12:05 PM Police investigate report of officer posting photo of dead body on FacebookBourne police impound vehicle suspected in fatal hit-and-runRival MS-13, 18th Street gang members face charges after weekend stabbing in South EndWestport couple arrested on drug dealing chargesSuspect in New Bedford, Dartmouth store robberies arraignedN.H. man awaiting trial in New Bedford case convicted of...

CHENOA — Nothing will be able to stop Ellie Barth now. An AmTryke therapeutic tricycle was presented Tuesday to 6-year-old Ellie of Chenoa, who has cerebral palsy. “We wanted to present a bicycle for a child in the Prairie Central community for Christmas,” said Chad Allen, senior deacon of Tarbolton Masonic Lodge 351. The fraternity held a pancake and sausage meal in October to raise $450 for...

Published on Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 The ripple effect of Marissa Norwood’s ”Legacy of Kindness” is already at work. The 12-year-old Akron girl — whose calling hours and funeral are today — battled a malignant brain tumor for 21/2 years and endured multiple surgeries and therapies before her death last Saturday. But she believed in doing good things for others in the precious time she had...