Rum-runners' stash seized by RCMP (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)RCMP in southern Newfoundland found $14,000 worth of smuggled Caribbean rum Thursday morning.

Neighbors frustrated by blight in Rum Village (22 WSBT South Bend)SOUTH BEND — Paul Duda and his Rum village neighbors are tired of cleaning up.

Cruzan Rum Celebrates Its Caribbean Heritage Through New Advertising Campaign (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)DEERFIELD, Ill.----Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. [Fortune Brands, Inc. ], the leading American spirits company and Cruzan® Rum, the fastest-growing rum brand among the top five brands in the U.S., today announced a new advertising campaign that showcases the U.S.

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.

Local Author Takes a Presidential Plunge (Syosset - Jericho Tribune)Local author, researcher, and scuba diver Adam Grohman, who has searched for submarines, rum runners, shipwrecks, and other interesting aspects of our local maritime history, has recently completed his research into President Theodore Roosevelt's historic plunge beneath the waters of Oyster Bay aboard the Plunger submarine in August of 1905. “Theodore Roosevelt,” Grohman commented, “was a ...

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.

'House Bunny' Anna Faris' Bali wedding (Zap2It)Rumors of Anna Faris' Hawaiian wedding were false ... and were topped by the reality of her actual wedding."The House Bunny" and "Scary Movie" star exchanged vows with actor fiancee Chris Pratt in Bali on July 9, People reports.Faris, 32, and Pratt, 30, were most recently seen in public Tuesday night at the Malibu Reef Check Partnership, a partnership between Malibu Rum and the Reef Check ...

After long ban, some Cubans sample tourism luxury (Reuters via Yahoo! News)Floating, cocktail drink in hand, in the pool of a five-star hotel in Cuba, Alexis basks in a holiday experience that for years was out of reach for him in his own homeland.

Autism diagnosis takes too long: N.L. parents (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)Advocates for children with autism say Newfoundland and Labrador is failing to reduce wait times for diagnosis. Parents say they're still waiting 10 to 14 months to have their children assessed.

What ice-cream reveals about you (Adelaide Now)OPTIMISTS prefer rainbow or strawberry, users of social network websites choose cookies and cream and people who keep a close eye on their wallets opt for vanilla.

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