Community festival T-shirt mocks Osama bin Laden

HOQUIAM, Wash. — A community festival near the Washington state coast is attracting attention with a T-shirt mocking Osama bin Laden.

Golfer mistaken for clown charged with DWI in New York

BATAVIA, N.Y. — A Massachusetts man whose colorful golf attire was briefly mistaken for a clown outfit has been charged in New York with driving a golf cart while drunk.

BOB MORRIS: Picking pomegranates a test of patience

Question: We are new to raising pomegranates. We have been watering them and have cut off most of the suckers but need to know when they should be ready to be picked.

Inaugural music festival to hit the street near UNLV

Roddy Belford has three days to prove to a neighborhood that community has its place among it. Belford knows it will take more to make the area around UNLV a social hub, but he’s about to kick off his mission with a party.

Appeal dismissed in Navajo Mine case

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A three-judge panel with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed BHP Billiton’s appeal over permitting for a coal mine on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.

Stocks rally after storm damage less than feared

NEW YORK — Stocks rose sharply after fears that Tropical Storm Irene would cause widespread catastrophic damage subsided along with the storm. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 220 points in afternoon trading Monday.