By STICKLEY, Marcus Parents could soon start being prosecuted for taking their children out of school for a holiday, a Nelson principal says. Primary schools have been reinforcing attendance rules with parents after receiving reminders from the Education Ministry to do so.

By Anthony DeCurtis As an actor in films like "Hustle & Flow,""Crash" and "Iron Man," Terrence Howard has played characters whose calm demeanor conceals a suppressed rage that is the result of dreams deferred, denied or realized on only barely acceptable terms.

LAS VEGAS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Fremont Street Experience premieres "Don McLean's American Pie" Viva Vision light and sound show with a weekend-long 4th of July celebration free to the public, 4 p.m.-midnight July 3-5 in downtown Las Vegas.

By Chris Hansen Orf, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. May 17--Don McLean in concert When: 7:30 p.m.

By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Jun. 20--PALMER -- A newly composed state agriculture board Tuesday threw out members of a creamery board overseeing the Matanuska Maid dairy, installed itself as the creamery board and canceled a decision to shutter the state-owned company.