ShareThisHere is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Thursday, June 28, 2007. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484.
WASHINGTON
FEDERALLANDCLAIMS (Burr, Salt Lake Tribune) -- WASHINGTON: Lawmakers have dropped a proposed amendment and forged an agreement on more oversight of rights-of-way claims on federal lands. 250.
NATIONAL
BEARRESISTANT (Holland, Anchorage Daily News) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska: For an extra $5 a month, Anchorage residents soon will be able to lease a bear-resistant trash container that allows them to store their garbage outdoors without drawing the prying paws of the city's urban bruins. 550.
WIENERMOBILE (Quinn, Arizona Daily Star) -- TUCSON, Ariz.: Oscar Mayer Wienermobile pulled over by mistake. 200.
TOILETTALK (Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- PITTSBURGH: Inmates giving cell phone new meaning, use toilets to talk. 800.
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
GMOFOODS (Ness, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Many people know they don't quite trust food made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but they aren't sure why, or if their fear is valid. A new book, "Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food," provides some user-friendly answers. 800.With sidebar: GMOFOODS-SIDE. (Editors: This is also listed on the life sked. It will move categories a and l.)
GMOFOODS-SIDE (Ness, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Some shopping tips for consumers who want to avoid foods that contain genetically engineered food. 350. (Editors: This is also listed on the life sked. It will move categories a and l.)
INTERNATIONAL
BEETLEWOES (Hume, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- VANCOUVER, British Columbia: The small beetle that has eaten its way through about 40 percent of British Columbia's lodgepole pine forest since 1993 is developing new appetites. 500.
IN THE WEST
HIGHWAYPATROL (Portillo, Fresno Bee) -- In a bid to reduce the number of people killed in collisions between cars and large trucks, the California Highway Patrol is sending out more officers this summer to ticket unsafe drivers. 300.
SFHEALTHCARE (Knight, San Francisco Chronicle) -- As the national debate rages over how to fix the country's broken health-care system -- with 2008 presidential candidates offering up their solutions and Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" opening -- San Francisco will become the first city in the country to actually try to solve the problem itself.
MODERNDAYSLAVERY (Magagnini, Sacramento Bee) -- Sacramento, Calif., has joined 17 other cities around the country in a coalition formed to find and rescue victims of human trafficking. 600.
TAHOEFOURTH (Wasserman, Buck, Sacramento Bee) -- Confronted with a threatening wildfire, hotels, casinos and other tourist attractions in Lake Tahoe are not giving up on the Fourth of July -- and what they once hoped would be their biggest week of the summer. 650.
