The brainchild of Matthew Hranek, a photographer and lifelong hunter who’s been raising pigs with his neighbor in Sullivan County, N.Y. , William Brown is a lifestyle-porn company for those of us without houses like this. Full Article at The New York Times

THE might of the trade union movement was not crushed by a wrecking ball from the Thatcher government but by a deeper transformation in society, a leading academic argued yesterday. Full Article at Wales Online

A man charged with the murder of two apprentice jockeys who died in a fire at a flat in North Yorkshire has appeared in court. Peter William Brown, 37, from Malton, North Yorkshire, appeared at Leeds Crown Court via video link from prison in Hull. Full Article at BBC News

Billy Bunter, William Brown, Captain Haddock, Obelix, Asterix, Humphrey Appleby... the list is long of what George Orwell once called first class characters who have provided endless enjoyment without quite belonging to what is often referred to as... Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph

Southwest Baptist University's Provost Search Committee has recommended William Brown to be the university's next provost, according to a news release from SBU President C. Pat Taylor. Brown has accepted the offer, the release said. Full Article at The Springfield News-Leader

BARTOW - A judge sentenced 23-year-old William Brown today to two life sentences for killing a gay student in a crime that prosecutors say was motivated by his sexual orientation. Full Article at Tampa Bay Online

A GRIEVING family say it took the death of their sick father, found critically injured in the grounds of a top cancer hospital, to tighten up security. Full Article at Manchester Evening News

"A Christmas Carol" has decked the stages of the Goodman Theatre for 32 years, and I've seen about two dozen editions of it by now. Full Article at Chicago Sun-Times

Southwest Baptist University's Provost Search Committee has recommended William Brown to be the university's next Provost, according to a news release from SBU President C. Pat Taylor. Brown has accepted the offer, the release said. Full Article at The Springfield News-Leader

Acclaimed Chicago actor Larry Yando commands the stage as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, "Goodman Theatre's annual Christmas gift to Chicago" (Daily Herald) for over three decades. Full Article at Broadway World

CAHOKIA -- While television cameras rolled Thursday, a village worker claimed Mayor Frank Bergman attacked him three days ago, made a blatantly racist statement during the last election and "taught me all that I know," about what a county prosecutor... Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

Join us on Follow us on KSDK -- A Cahokia village trustee is accusing the mayor of shoving him following Tuesday's night's Cahokia Village Board meeting. Full Article at KSDK | St. Louis

METRO VANCOUVER — A Red Scorpion gangster facing new gun and drug charges was a Hells Angels associate when he was arrested and charged in July 2005 as part of the massive police undercover probe that targeted the notorious biker gang. Full Article at Vancouver Sun

Employees at Hawker Beechcraft's Salina plant say they've been told the plant will likely close in April or May -- and that local officials did nothing to try to keep the plant here. Full Article at Salina Journal Online

In 1942 Richmal Crompton wrote: “The noise was deafening but Miss Swinton did not mind noise: while the evacuees were sliding down the staircase on tin trays or swinging like squirrels from tree to tree in the garden to the accompaniment of... Full Article at Times Online

A HAVERIGG inmate who made “serious threats” to a probation officer has been given a further four-month jail term. Full Article at News & Star

by Joseph Erbentraut EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor Thursday Nov 5, 2009 While the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law last week at the White House, he stood among a crowd of many... Full Article at EDGE Boston

BARTOW — A Polk County jury Tuesday convicted William Brown Jr. of first-degree murder in the killing of a 25-year-old gay man in 2007. Full Article at Orlando Sentinel

Bartow, Florida - Jurors are watching a 40 minute video tape of defendant William Brown, Jr. being interviewed by detectives after the murder of 25-year-old Ryan Skipper. Full Article at 10Connects.com