Q: We built a second home in North Carolina in 2003. The kitchen cabinets were manufactured to resemble beadboard, but the material is synthetic; we think it's called thermofoil. The cabinets have now started turning from white to beige, and they no longer match the framing. We were told by the cabinetmaker that the company that manufactured this material has gone out of business, and nothing can be done.
Because there are many doors and drawer fronts, it would not be feasible to have new ones made. Read More...
The University of Maryland hired Gary Williams yesterday as basketball coach, hoping the 44-year-old alumnus will bring the school a competitive and turmoil-free program.
Williams, who spent the last three seasons as head coach at Ohio State and could have stayed on, signed a five-year contract in the afternoon, following a night flight from Columbus and almost four hours of negotiations to settle the financial aspects of the deal that will pay him about $400,000 a year. Read More...
CHICAGO, JULY 21 -- Even while in federal custody, Jeffrey Erickson had a certain swagger. In an interview last March, the accused bank robber bragged about how easy it would be to escape from authorities in charge of security at the federal courthouse here.
"I was not impressed with their officer security," Erickson told the Chicago Tribune. "Chicago and the DEA are a lot better."
No one could have guessed how accurate he was: Late Monday afternoon, as he was being led back to jail from his trial on serial bank robbery charges, Erickson somehow slipped out of his handcuffs, wrestled a revolver from a deputy U. Read More...