March 17, 2008
Late breaking news
The artist may have helped illustrate the only known copy of a legendary Renaissance chess treatise.
HAMILTON A check for $663 may not seem like a lot to some, but for 88-year-old Bernice LoBuono, it's a large portion of her income.
ROME (AP) — Leonardo da Vinci drew everything from war machines to anatomy sketches. Now it seems he may have also been an early illustrator of the chess puzzle.
Experts say the Renaissance genius may have illustrated the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise recently recovered in the library of an aristocratic family in northern Italy.
HAMILTON A check for $663 may not seem like a lot to some, but for 88-year-old Bernice LoBuono, it's a large portion of her income. It also was the amount taken from the widow's pension check for an insurance plan she never authorized.
Just when it starts to get easy raising kids — no more high chairs, no more sippy cups, no more car seats — God sends along puberty. This, of course, is the point where parents turn into idiots.
Usually at this time of year, the number of seniors calling the York County Area Agency on Aging with questions about their income taxes begins to dwindle.
The Pontiac Public Library is accepting donations of "gently used" books, magazines, DVDs, VHS tapes, CDs, puzzles, puppets and other items from now until their used book sale April 10-12, said Youth Services Librarian Katherine Nolan.
Experts say the Renaissance genius may have illustrated the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise.
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