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"It's that time of year again!" Lake Superior State University "maverick" word-watchers, fresh from the holiday "staycation" but without an economic "bailout" even after a "desperate search," have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year's list may be more "green" than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from "Wall Street to Main Street" say they love "not so much" and wish to have erased from their "carbon footprint." Environmental buzzwords are getting the axe this year. "Green" and "going...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Hardly looking 'metrosexual,' a 'shocked and awed' Lake Superior State University Word Banishment selection committee emerged from its spider hole with its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. LSSU has been compiling the list since 1976, choosing from nominations sent from around the world. This year, words and phrases were pulled from more than 5,000 nominations - a record. Most were sent through the school's website: www.lssu.edu/banished. Word-watchers pull nominations throughout the year from everyday speech, as well as from the news, fields of education, technology,...

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY ISSUES 2003 LIST OF BANISHED WORDS SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – ‘Make no mistakes about it,’ Lake Superior State University issued its 28th annual ‘extreme’ List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness, which the world needs ‘now, more than ever.’ LSSU has been compiling the list since 1976, choosing from nominations sent from around the world. This year, words and phrases were pulled from a record 3,000 nominations. Most were sent through the school’s website: http://www.lssu.edu/banished. Word-watchers pull nominations throughout the year from everyday speech, as well as from...

A former Grand Rapids street preacher, whose fire-and-brimstone style led to him being exiled from his hometown, is embroiled in the case of a Texas mother accused of drowning her five young children. Letters written by West Catholic High School graduate Michael Peter Woroniecki and his wife to Andrea Yates may have contributed to Yates' downward mental spiral, according to "Breaking Point," a book by a Texas author who researched the case. Jury selection continues this week in the trial of Yates, 37, of Clear Lake, Texas. She is charged with capital murder after confessing to drowning her children in ...

Lake Superior State University Issues 2002 List of Banished Words SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Lake Superior State University released its 27th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use, and General Uselessness. The compilation draws from hundreds of nominations received from all over the world by mail and through the Internet. LSSU forms a committee in December to review the year's entries and decide which of them will be included on the list. Word-watchers pull nominations from everyday speech, as well as from the news, fields of education, technology, advertising, politics, and more. The complete ...

Police, FBI, Hazmat crews, even the Secret Service were all called to a metro storage facility today because of what was inside. The renter of the storage facility had not paid the bill in weeks. Police went inside and found boxes of money, possibly millions of dollars, covered with white powder. The folks at Colonial Storage in Doraville, which runs "Store Your Stuff" on Longmire Way, say the renter of the unit, a man with an Middle Eastern sounding name, had fallen months behind on his rent. He owed $400. They couldn't contact him. So they opened up the unit, ...