ShareThisThursday, June 14, 2007
Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Wednesday, June 13, 2007. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives, visit our Web site at www.shns.com.
GOOD NEWS:
ASPIRINGBAKER (Sylva, Sacramento Bee) -- Meet Alison Preston, aspiring baker. While most folks are sleeping, she grapples with upward of 600 pounds of dough. 700. With photo: SH07F123ASPIRINGBAKER.
BARBECUERPAL (Ortiz, Sacramento Bee) -- Barbecue fans are going to love this: An inventor has devised a way to measure gas in a propane tank. 800. With photos: SH07F124BARBECUERPAL, SH07F125BARBECUERPAL.
NATIONAL
ROBBERNAMES (Cason, SHNS) -- VENTURA, Calif.: For bank robbers, after three strikes you get a nickname. Here's a special agent who chooses the monikers. 550.
PARISEATS (Finz, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Hotel heiress Paris Hilton reportedly is rejecting most of her jailhouse rations, but contrary to popular belief, food fare in the slammer these days is far from gruel and water - at least in California. 700.
TATTOOS (Shepard, SHNS) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Though they say it's a year late, New Mexico National Guard members are glad to receive an apology for the Army's investigation into alleged gang tattoos while they served in Kuwait. 350.
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
POISONBYPROXY (Blake, Toledo Blade) -- For months, the reasons Carrie Weaver's young son remained sick baffled doctors and specialists. Then, police stepped in, and his mother was arrested and charged with poisoning by proxy -- a disorder known as Munchausen by proxy syndrome. 900. With photos: SH07F130POISONBYPROXY, SH07F131POISONBYPROXY.
MEDICAL (Bowman, SHNS) -- The Medical Journal. If you're looking for Marcus Welby and lots of feel-good chatting from your doctor, you're likely to be disappointed, a new survey shows. But you'll probably get a handshake, at least. 750.
INTERNATIONAL
STEAKFARM (Alphonso, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- You can pick your own strawberries from the farm or even some tomatoes. And now, if you live in Saskatchewan, you can also choose your own cow. 500.
MEDIOCRECANADA (Scofield, Toronto Globe and Mail) --TORONTO: Canada's failure to innovate is spilling over into the economy, environmental protection, health care, education and poverty eradication -- turning the country into a land of stifling mediocrity, according to a harsh new report card. 650
IN THE WEST
CAL-GAS (Kasler, Sacramento Bee) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif.: A month ago, gasoline prices set records in California. Now they're down considerably -- and likely will continue dropping for a few more weeks. 350.
SMOKINGBAN (Walsh, San Francisco Chronicle) -- BELMONT, Calif.: Belmont has moved a step closer to adopting a sweeping ordinance that would ban smoking in multiunit housing -- the most far-reaching effort in the nation to protect residents from the dangers of secondhand smoke. 550.
WARMING (Warchol, Salt Lake Tribune) -- DEADWOOD, S.D.: Top climate scientists offered Western governors an assessment on the impacts of global warming that sounded like something out of the Old Testament: drought, wildfire, floods and pestilence. 500.
DONOTRESUSCITATE (Ellis, Fresno Bee) -- CLOVIS, Calif.: School district refuses to honor do-not-resuscitate order for 9-year-old. 800.
SUGARDADDIES (Goldman, Las Vegas Sun) -- LAS VEGAS: There are 143 Sugar Daddies and 626 Sugar Babies online in Nevada, and they're not apologizing for it. Welcome to SeekingArrangement.com. 800.
