101 'Big Checks' From Publishers Clearing House Arrive at Most Welcome Time (Broadcast Newsroom)
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. , May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- With polls showing the economy to be Issue #1, Americans are especially glad to be receiving tax rebates from Uncle Sam this month.

5-way scramble for GOP 2nd District race (Alamogordo Daily News)
ROSWELL -- With three-term incumbent Republican Rep. Steve Pearce chasing a U.S. Senate seat, it's a five-way scramble for the GOP nomination in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.

May 16, 2008 (The Virginia Gazette)
News item: Former Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson worked out for six major league scouts Thursday in hopes of making a comeback after being released by three teams over the past three years.

Lackawanna Avenue Renovations Celebrated (WNEP 16 Pennsylvania)
The 500 block of Lackawanna Avenue near the Mall at Steamtown in Scranton is undergoing renovations and Wednesday even the governor was in town to celebrate it.

TOM WALSH: UAW's wrath sends a signal (Detroit Free Press)
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, not normally very talkative with news media, was a virtual chatterbox on Detroit radio airwaves in recent days, huffing and puffing about the injustices being heaped upon brave, striking UAW workers by the greedy bosses at American Axle & Manufacturing.

Phil Sheridan: Flyers' formula: Time and space (Philly.com)
PITTSBURGH - With all this talk about time and space, you half expect Albert Einstein to turn up at the morning skate.

Partnership is a chamber of confusion (Orlando Sentinel)
Jacob Stuart, who has led the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce for more than 20 years, has made a big deal out of forming a new group that he helms, called the Central Florida Partnership.

Big checks ahead for Penguins (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Some commercial real estate agents estimate the land at the Mellon Arena site could be worth as much as $70 to $100 a square foot, or between $85.3 million and nearly $122 million.

Big checks ahead for Penguins (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Some commercial realtors estimate the land at the Mellon Arena site -- near the confluence of Downtown, Uptown and the Hill District -- could be worth as much as $70 to $100 a square foot, or between $85.3 million and nearly $122 million.

Ground broken for new Del Norte clinic (Alamosa Valley Courier)
DEL NORTE — With the spirit of the architect of Del Norte’s vision of providing first-rate health care for the people on the western side of the San Luis Valley lovingly hovering over the proceedings, ground was broken for the Haug Memorial Rural Health Clinic Saturday.