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OTTAWA - Western Canada is likely to bear the brunt of a looming medical-isotope shortage, experts warn.

When a leak first shut down Canada's isotope-producing reactor last year, the resulting shortage of radioactive material was most acutely felt in Eastern Canada.

A packed board meeting inside the Sierra College theater last week offered a glimpse of the many kinds of students California's community colleges serve:

Every day, "Misty" finds out that another pedophile has been caught with images of her. He could be a pastor, a cop or a mechanic busted with pornographic pictures taken when she was 8 or 9 years old. In each case, another person is making her a victim again and again, said her attorney James Marsh.

The bad news continues for Minnesota's moose.

The population of the iconic animal in northeastern Minnesota has declined again, based on the latest aerial survey this winter by the Department of Natural Resources.

WASHINGTON - Graceland will help the Newseum look at Elvis Presley as a groundbreaking media phenomenon that changed the way celebrity is covered.

CHANDLER, Okla. - Mickie Hatfield said she and her husband moved from Edmond to rural Lincoln County eight years ago for a slower pace of life and better peace of mind. Her biggest worry was snakes, so she learned to use a shotgun.

These days snakes are the least of her troubles, she said, because now she has eight sex offenders as neighbors.

SAN FRANCISCO - A high-profile California insurance company that is backing a controversial insurance measure on the June ballot has engaged in practices that may be illegal, including deceptive pricing and discrimination against consumers such as active members of the military and drivers of emergency vehicles, according to a state report obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle.

WASHINGTON - One of the emerging trends in this hyperpartisan era of politics is the enhanced view senators have of their ability to be the one person who can make or break the legislative agenda.

Johan Guillaume left Haiti when he was 14, but Haiti never left Guillaume. First as a high school and college student in New York and then as a first-year medical student at Stanford University, he planned to use his education to someday help his homeland.

TOLEDO, Ohio - Scantily clad dancers were the draw at a downtown men's entertainment club over the weekend for an event that raised nearly $1,000 for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

"Lap dances for Haiti" was the way Marilyn's on Monroe billed Saturday's affair.

Although the billing may be misleading -- lap dancing is illegal in Ohio -- the intention isn't.