Rum Rises From the Cocktail Shaker to Challenge Scotch, Bourbon (Bloomberg)Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Rum is going up in class. More often seen in the company of its proletarian partner Coke, the sugarcane-based liquor is mixing instead with the elite sipping spirits, the single malts, XO cognacs and aged bourbons.

Toilet sex attack soldier jailed (BBC News)A soldier who carried out a barrack room sex attack on a male colleague is jailed for two years.

A Look Back:Prohibited or not, the booze kept flowing (Daily Pilot)Decades before the Prohibition era brought smugglers to Newport's beaches, their boats laden with barrels of whiskey and rum, the city had a problem with unlicensed drinking establishments called blind pigs.

Idyll off the coast of N.B. and Maine has unique and bustle-free history (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N.B. - If a visitor was asked to describe in just one word the feeling they get from New Brunswick's Campobello Island, they would probably say serene.

Who owns our whisky? (Sunday Herald)Diageo is cutting 900 jobs at Kilmarnock and elsewhere, and Indian-owned Whyte & Mackay is axing 100 more. But does it matter that conglomerates and firms outside Scotland own most of the whisky industry?

A declaration of war on graffiti :Council member wants to start group to combat vandals on the west side. (South Bend Tribune)SOUTH BEND -- On Monday, on the wall of the West Side Democratic Club, President Barack Obama was sporting an Afro haircut, courtesy of a graffiti vandal who also wrote unprintable swear words in black spray paint.

Poipu, on Kauai's dry south end, is a no regrets' vacation choice (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)POIPU, Hawaii -- Poipu is postcard perfect Hawaii, guaranteed. ...

It's dessert and a show with flambe on the menu (Rapid City Journal)Want to get your party started? Try setting a banana on fire.

The USA's Yesterdays: Steven Crane: A badge of courage, personified (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)Hal Malehorn Sixty-one years ago this autumn I began college, where I enrolled in freshman composition. I had as my instructor Miss Miriam Fackler. From the first class session, Miss Fackler set about teaching us hapless “freshies” the proper way to write English, and among other things, stressed brevity. (“Murder your darlings !” she scribbled liberally in red along the margins of our papers.)

COPS AND COURTS (The Morning Journal)Lorain man arrested for traffic violations, marijuana possession

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