Dolores Feature

Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato are must-sees during Mexico 's bicentennial

DOLORES HIDALGO, Mexico -- As often as I've traveled in Mexico , and as long as I've known that Diez y Seis de Septiembre is the holiday marking Mexico 's independence from Spain, I've never fully realized what a charming, if perhaps obscure, town serves as the birthplace of the country's most important occasion.

Dolores C. Hoover, gardener and designer, dies at 76

Accomplished gardener and designer had been arranger at Valley View Farms in Baltimore County Dolores C. Hoover, a retired floral designer and avid gardener, died of congestive heart failure Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was 76 and lived in Monkton.

Gallardo glovework doing Spain proud

Dolores Gallardo was a rock between the sticks for Spain in their opener against Japan and is hoping for more of the same, as FIFA.com found out.

Hearings slated this month on Board of Regents makeup

Senate Education Committee Chairman Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, said Tuesday she will hold confirmation hearings this month to discuss the makeup of the existing Tennessee Board of Regents.

Senate hearings scheduled on Board of Regents appointment

Senate Education Chairman Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, announced that the Senate Education Committee will hold hearings on Sept. 28 and 29 regarding the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Phyllis Diller, Fast Pass Spokeswoman

Before San Francisco evolved into a city best known for eating food from a truck in Dolores Park , we used to have the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, renowned stand up comedy, affordable housing, film production companies in Treasure Island, and national treasure Phyllis Diller hawking the Fast Pass. Spot Us came across this ad at a Mission Street pawn shop. We like it. Brassy, yes? And look! It ...

Spider veins cause for concern

Q. Is there anything that can be done for spider veins? -- Dolores, Highland Park, Ill. A. Spider veins can make your legs and even your face look like you've been to a cut-rate tattoo artist. These hair-thin, dilated veins just beneath the skin don't actually resemble the creepy-crawlies they're named for. They're more like red, blue or purple sunbursts or tree branches. Any way you describe ...

Jury hears testimony in Rita Hunter trial

Attorneys on Tuesday gave two different versions of events leading to the arrest of Dolores Forste in the first day of a trial in which the California woman is suing Rita Hunter, former Jasper County public administrator. Forste is arguing that she was the victim of malicious prosecution by Hunter when she was arrested in November 2007 after taking her mother, Emma France, home with her while ...

Dolores Park's popularity stirs controversy

There is a community debate over Dolores Park and how its popularity has skyrocketed.

Focus: Dancing towards divinity

SEPTEMBER RAIN falls on the dilapidated buildings of Brookside in Pila, Laguna. Inside a basilica, seven white-robed women with flowers in their hair dance in a circle. Their gestures are all their own, personal expressions of the moment. Some sway like the eucalyptus leaves rustling outside the building; others flap their arms and gesticulate to a beat only they can hear. Feet, both bare and ...