Latest Swansea Stories
Cambridge House of Swansea, a BMA affordable assisted living community, is hosting an Easter Pie Social on March 28. The community, which is located in the St. Louis Metro East area, serves seniors of all incomes, including those on Medicaid. Bradley, IL (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 Cambridge House of Swansea, a BMA affordable assisted living community in the St. Louis Metro East area, is hosting an Easter Pie Social at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 28. The community, which is located at 3900...
NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Welsh screen icon Richard Burton would have turned 87 on November 10(th). It's hard to imagine that vital, carousing, temperamental soul in mellow old age. Harder still to imagine the world-acclaimed actor as a family man worrying about his daughter's wounded heart, as a thoughtful and voracious reader of all manner of subjects, and as an insecure man with 'self-esteem issues,' who, nonetheless, could paint vividly mocking pictures of...
Judy L. Cates of Swansea, IL has been honored by American Registry in its selection of America's Most Honored Professionals. SWANSEA, Ill., Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announcing Judy L. Cates' receipt of the highly selective, professional recognition award, America's Most Honored Professionals. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111229/DC28225 ) To qualify as a Most Honored Professional, honorees must be publicly recognized for professional excellence with multiple...
NYACK, N.Y. and SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At the historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, Portrait Plasma Skin Regeneration returned as a technology discussed at the advanced symposium, Controversies & Conversations in Laser and Cosmetic Surgery, directed by Drs. Kenneth A. Arndt and Jeffrey S. Dover of SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill, MA. In the session titled, "Does the choice of wavelength energy sources and/or use of fractionation make a...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The debate over which of the three greatest rock bands--Beatles, Stones and The Who--is the greatest has raged for decades. But there has never been any argument over which of the three has been the greatest band in concert. The Who has reigned o'er them all. Now, 22 recordings of the band's biggest and best-known hits--most of them never widely available or unreleased and 20 of them newly mixed by the band and its production team--have been collected...
After stealing about $1,154 in liquor, two burglars decided to celebrate and got so drunk they fell asleep instead of escaping, police in Swansea, Wales, said. Burglars Keith Cullen and Paul Wiggins stacked up the stolen booze outside the store and then went in to have a drink. Police found them asleep in the store the next morning, The Sun newspaper reported. A Swansea prosecutor said closed circuit television recorded the entire theft of the Kuehne Nagle Drinks Logistics depot. Police said...
Ex-Wales soccer player John Hartson received a tweet of support from cycling star Lance Armstrong as Hartson battles for his life following emergency surgery. The 34-year-old former striker, or forward, for the Glasgow, Scotland, Celtic and London West Ham United and Arsenal football clubs was in critical but stable condition and receiving round-the-clock care aiming to stabilize his condition at a hospital in Swansea, Wales, after being diagnosed with testicular cancer that spread to his...
A group of 2,510 people in Wales set a world record by gathering at a nightclub while they were all dressed as Smurfs.The participants, dressed as small blue characters with white hats and pants, nearly doubled the previous record during the event at the Oceana nightclub in Swansea, which was organized by the costume shop Jokers' Masquerade, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.Organizers said the event eclipsed a previous record of 1,253 people in Smurf costumes at a Castleblayney, Ireland,...
Police in a Welsh city were looking for the owner of a long-closed Indian restaurant after receiving money from a diner who did not pay the tab in 1996. The anonymous letter was sent to a police station in Swansea with three 20-pound notes enclosed (almost $90), Sky News reported Saturday. The total sum for the meal and drink was under 10 pounds, the letter said. However, I have decided to pay a larger sum as a way of compensation. I actually forgot that I didn't pay the restaurant owner for...
A British government efficiency computer designed to save taxpayers $87 million ended up costing them $124 million instead, investigators say. An investigation by members of the House of Commons public accounts committee found that a Department for Transport effort to gain efficiencies by installing a new computer system was so bungled that it ended up actually costing much more than the hoped for savings, the British tabloid The Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Installed at a Swansea,...
