You’ve got to admire feisty Glen Cove, aka “Moscow on the Sound,” where the locals have been living with the Soviet menace since the era of mutually assured destruction.

With nuclear warheads poised to annihilate New York in the early ‘60s, defiant denizens lined the streets and pelted Nikita Khrushchev’s limo with tomatoes. It’s unclear if the Soviets filed a formal protest.

I’m sure this happened sometime after the annual St. Rocco’s Feast, where tomatoes are too preciou… (View original article)

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A NEW 20-point plan has been drawn up in a bid to save Paignton’s historic Oldway Mansion.

The building, once the home of the Singer family, has been lying empty for more than three years since the last Torbay Council staff moved out.

Torbay Council’s agreement with would-be developers Akkeron to redevelop the site collapsed last year and a new ‘working panel’ has been established to find a solution to the problem posed by the building, which was cre… (View original article)

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband may soon be forced to leave the couple’s Bel Air home.

Following the death of Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, her ninth husband will soon find himself forced to leave the six-bedroom villa Gabor called home for four decades. According to property records, Gabor and her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, sold the Bel Air home in September of 2012 for $9. Why? Real estate records confirm the couple participated in a deferred transaction, meaning … (View original article)

ST. MARYS, Ga. — Baseball great Ted Williams was once asked why he left the Florida Keys where he had lived for many years. It was time to go, he said, when you couldn’t make a left-hand turn. He was referring to the traffic on U.S. Highway 1.

I know what he means. And that’s one of the reasons I like St. Marys, a backwater Georgia town on the north bank of the St. Marys River, where you can still make a left-hand turn. There is no such thing as rush hour. It might be 10 minut… (View original article)

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and his family will leave the White House and shift in a luxurious mansion after his presidential term comes to an end on January 20.

It is said that Obama and his family plan to stay in this $5.3 million mansion after inauguration day until his younger daughter Sasha graduates. She has a couple of years to leave the school in Washington DC.

The luxurious brick mansion is located in the upscale DC neighborhood of Kalorama, just two mil… (View original article)