Challenges in the news - 02/04/2008

Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered football program that led him to take the coaching job at Southern Methodist, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this season.

Giving voters a choice and a chance to cast a vote for change was behind the decision of Philip Gray to launch a primary challenge against longtime County Commission incumbent Jim Caldwell.

A federal appeals court Monday revived a legal challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law, saying school districts have been justified in complaining that the law required them to pay for testing and other programs without providing sufficient federal money.

Supreme Court justices indicated Monday they are deeply divided over a challenge to the way most states execute prisoners by lethal injection, which critics say creates an avoidable risk of excruciating pain.

ST. MATTHEWS -- The 2008 general election is almost a year away, but one Calhoun County candidate is already mounting his second challenge to Sheriff Thomas Summers.

NAGPUR — Popular yoga guru Ramdev has accepted the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) challenge to cure cancer patients and allow clinical trials of his treatment within three years.

Carnival Cruise Lines launches a major new advertising campaign today that includes several catchy television spots -- and, no, they don't star Kathy Lee Gifford singing "Ain't we got fun." Here's a challenge: Can you name the new song in...

Mountain State University is posing a challenge to their students, faculty and the general public but it's not in the classroom....it's at the gym.

SCHOOL Soccer Port Moresby has been challenge to start to prepare its team for the Oceania Under 12 Football Festival in Noumea, New Caledonia, in May or forget the trip.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing yesterday to lawyers who are challenging the use of lethal injections to carry out executions in the United States.

We have applied for a matching City grant of $10,000 and we have commenced a memorial brick Tribute Walk solicitations which you will hear more about later. The challenge is indeed large, but the Granada Hills Rotary Club, the GHSNC and citizens of Granada Hills respond to a challenge.