Emergency shelters hurting after early onslaught of winter weather

Emergency shelters hurting after early onslaught of winter weather

By Danny Valentine and Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writers Wednesday, December 29, 2010 TAMPA â€" Forced to open earlier and more often this season than in the past, emergency cold weather shelters across Tampa Bay are facing blown budgets and a shortage of supplies just weeks into winter. As a break from the cold weather arrives today, the shelters are using the moment of warmth to take stock ...

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New York struggles through massive airport backlog

Associated Press writers Deepti Hajela, Chris Hawley, Meghan Barr, Samantha Gross, Sara Kugler Frazier and Dave Skretta in New York; Beth DeFalco in Asbury Park, N.J.; Stephanie Nano in Newark, N.J.; Carla K. Johnson in Chicago; Kate Brumback in Sudbury, Mass.; Amanda Lee Myers in Phoenix; Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia; and AP business writer David Koenig in Dallas contributed to this report.

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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Book Publishers See Their Role as Gatekeepers Shrink

Writers are bypassing the traditional route to bookstore shelves and self-publishing their works online. By selling directly to readers, authors get a larger slice of the sale price. Joe Konrath can't wait for his books to go out of print. When that happens, the 40-year-old crime novelist plans to reclaim the copyrights from his publisher, Hyperion Books, and self-publish them on Amazon.com ...

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