Attention Business/Financial Editors (Amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars, except share and per share data, or as indicated) MONTREAL, May 16 /CNW/ - TSX:WPO: World Point Terminals Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce its results for the first quarter of 2008. Center Point completed one...
MONTREAL, May 16 /CNW/ - TSX:WPO: World Point Terminals Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce its results for the first quarter of 2008. General World Point Terminals Inc. ("World Point") and its subsidiaries (the "Company") own and operate 14.5 million barrels of liquid bulk storage and...
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A jury has acquitted a former photographer for The Galveston County Daily News on charges that he interfered with police by refusing to stop taking pictures of an arrest. Nick Adams took the photographs during Galveston's Mardi Gras celebration in 2007. He says the jury's...
Impaired near-range vision may speed older adults’ rate of mental decline as they age, study findings suggest. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston found that among more than 2,000 elderly Mexican Americans, those with significant impairments in their near vision...
Published May 14, 2008 SURFSIDE BEACH — Waddling ashore from the choppy seas Tuesday afternoon, an endangered sea turtle dropped her motherly cargo — a nest of 109 eggs — all under the protecting eyes of the village’s mayor, public works director and police officers. After all, the large Kemp’s...
Coin dealers examining gold find off La. coast May 14, 2008 - A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two largely forgotten U.S. Mints in the South, coin experts say. Last year, four Louisiana residents...
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Summer is weeks away but pesky jellyfish are already making their way to Galveston beaches.Galveston Island Beach Patrol chief Peter Davis says the warmer the water, the higher the likelihood that a sting will occur. Patrol staffers on Sunday treated 100 jellyfish stings....
A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A+ (Superior) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “aa-“_ of American National Insurance Company (ANICO) (Texas) (NASDAQ:ANAT), the lead life insurer and the ultimate parent company...
John Whyte MD, PhD., Director of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network's Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, will receive the Robert L. Moody Prize during the eighth annual Galveston Brain Injury Conference May 14-16, 2008, at the Moody Gardens Hotel and Conference Center on Galveston Island,...
The disappearance of cash and drugs from the Galveston police property room has prompted the dismissal of 16 cases and a Texas Rangers audit of 2,100 other cases. ... Local officers began a criminal investigation after about $18,000 in cash and an undisclosed amount of...







