Nixon's chosen cocktail and other things you didn't know about rum (The Japan Times)* Captain Morgan was a real person. Sir Henry Morgan was a rather bloodthirsty 17th-century Welshman who blurred the line between privateer and pirate, plundering ships in the Caribbean. * Vice Admiral William Penn, whose son later founded Pennsylvania, was the first captain to make rum a daily ration on his ship. By the late 17th century, a sailor with England's Royal Navy received half a pint ...

The Coppell Police Department responded to the following incidents (Coppell Gazette)3:39 p.m. Theft reported in the 600 block of Phillips Drive. Unknown suspect stole victim's wedding ring. 1:03 p.m. Hit and rum accident reported in the 100 block of N. Moore Road . Unknown suspect backed vehicle into unattended motorcycle and left without leaving information.

36 Hours in Bermuda (International Herald Tribune)Four hundred years ago, an English sailing vessel was shipwrecked on this mid-Atlantic archipelago, giving birth to an island nation that's now in full-swing party mode.

NJ woman charged with stealing man's liquor after he collapsed, died during fight (Daily Record)NEW BRUNSWICK — A homeless woman has been charged with endangering and robbing a man of a bottle of rum after he collapsed and died on a city street during a fight.

For some Dominican players, steroids worth risk (AP via Yahoo! Sports)A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as "the cradle of shortstops." Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind tin shanties and on fields cut from sugar plantations. Bernardino Jimenez was one of those kids. He became a victim of his own dream. Desperate to lift his family out of poverty, the lanky infielder put himself in the hands of an agent who...

Go beyond the beach in the Dominican Republic (CNN)You've got your spot on a lounge chair angled into the hot Caribbean sun, with tall, slender palm trees jutting out over your head. As you gaze at the calm turquoise waters and sip that refreshing rum drink, you may ask yourself, "What more could I possibly want?"

Seven Tiki Takes Spiced Rum into Uncharted Waters (Beverage World)Miami – From the South Pacific comes Seven Tiki Spiced Rum, a Fijian rum with spices and other natural flavors. This premium spiced rum is made from the molasses of choice Polynesian sugar cane, exotic spices and virgin water drawn from deep beneath the Fiji's volcanic highlands.

Malibu-area search fails to find missing woman (Los Angeles Times)Ground, air crews hunt for clues in the mysterious disappearance of the South L.A. woman, 24, after she was released from a sheriff's substation in the predawn hours of Sept. 17. Mitrice Richardson is afraid of the dark and always has been, says her mother, Latice Sutton, who remembers that quirk when she thinks about her daughter's release from a jail cell at a Los Angeles County sheriff's ...

For some Dominican players, steroids worth risk (AP via Yahoo! News)A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as "the cradle of shortstops." Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind tin shanties and on fields cut from sugar plantations.

Distiller eager to join Bourbon Trail (The Cincinnati Enquirer)OWENSBORO - Kentucky's Bourbon Trail has brought visitors from 43 states and seven countries to the state this year to tour the eight participating distilleries.

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