Modesto Bee – So gifts in the past have included flowering bonsai trees. Or, if Uproar executives are aware that a particular client has been having a hard time, the gift could be a spa certificate. Many company owners hope that a gift will result in more business Read more

Allentown Morning Call – Theft — Reported Thursday by Michael Harris of 1702 Sherwood Court; $1,000 worth of bonsai trees and pots stolen from his porch. Theft — Reported Tuesday by Gary Lutz of Bath; $2,000 floor buffer stored by maintenance company he works for at Aharts Read more

dBusinessNews.com – For two consecutive weekends, visitors can view artwork, Japanese textile displays, classical dance performances, Yosakoi performance with more than 125 dancers, martial art combat, elaborate ikebana/bonsai/suiseki exhibits, origami exhibits and Read more

Detroit Free Press – You can’t just go into the forest and cut down the trees.” Frank Ettawageshik, chairman of the Little Traverse Bay tribe near Petoskey, said the agreement gives the tribes certainty that their hunting, fishing and gathering rights under a 1836 treaty Read more

MSNBC – It’s all these $400,000 houses with no yard, no trees and no coverage. They just throw them up,” said Frank D’Angelo. Beltrandi says regulations are forcing builders to construct bigger houses. “People keep saying the houses are getting bigger and Read more

Dallas Morning News – But the Corps of Engineers has strict guidelines on the planting of trees in a levee. The practice isn’t prohibited, said Col. Martin, the Fort Worth commander, but the city and the NTTA would have to convince Army engineers that the trees could be Read more

FOX News – Militants hanged the 15-year-old boy from a tree Sunday in a village in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world’s No. 1 poppy-growing region. “The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were Read more

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – activist Mos Def, who had urged Oct. 1 be turned into a day of protest about the jailing of black students in Jena, La., after a racially charged incident there nearly a year ago in which white students allegedly hung nooses in a schoolyard tree. That Read more

Free Lance-Star – Two weekend accidents claim lives Date published: 10/2/2007 Motorcycle rider dies of injuries after hitting tree A Stafford County man riding his motorcycle on Oak Ridge Drive Saturday afternoon ran off the side of the road and died at Mary Read more