By THALIA I. LONGORIA, Scripps Howard News Service

Americans overwhelmingly oppose an Olympic boycott, according to a recent poll.Seventy-nine percent do not want the United States to skip this summer's Beijing Olympics, while only 9 percent support a boycott, according to a poll conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. Another 12 percent don't know or didn't answer.

WASHINGTON -- Dressed in a polar bear costume, Adam Eidinger wanted to protest more than the war in Iraq.On the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, hundreds of protestors descended Wednesday on downtown Washington D.C. Eidinger's fluffy white bear suit was his way to stand out and promote his message of how the war is affecting global warming.

On a big spring-break night, Inertia Tours would take about 1,500 college students across the Texas border into Mexico for a pub crawl in Matamoros.Chad Hart, president of the Austin-based tour agency, said the crawl was always a popular draw for students to sign up for his company's South Padre Island vacation package.

Journalist Bonnie Erbe received the 2008 Media Award this week from the Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council. The award was established in 1999 to honor journalists for exemplary coverage of the changing workforce and the changing family.

Mere days before her sixth birthday, Samantha Runnion was snatched from her front yard in Stanton, Calif., sexually assaulted and brutally murdered by a man who had viewed child pornography on his home computer.