The Best Kept Secret
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Soda Distributors to End Most School Sales
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - NEW YORK - The nation's largest beverage distributors have agreed to halt nearly all sales of sodas to public schools _ a step that will remove the sugary, caloric drinks from vending machines and cafeterias around the country. The agreement was

May 3, 2006
Allentown Morning Call - PODCAST: The Morning Call News Minute for Wednesday, May 3 (MP3): A 39-year-old woman died and a man was critically injured in an overnight fire at the O Donnell Apartments in Phillipsburg. Another 14 of the 77 residents evacuated from the six

The squeaky wheel deserves the grease
Bonner County Daily Bee - 1989 -- Innocently agreeing to pick up a coworker at his home in East Detroit, not knowing that home was a crack house. Aggravating factor: I was wearing a turtleneck. 1992 -- Bombing down a long, steep hill in Billings, Mont., on my bicycle

ONLY ON 9: Hazardous House
El Paso News - Wednesday, May 3, 2006 For years an abandoned house off Ladrillo and Hudspeth has been a major headache for neighbors. "It's a lot of trash, weeds, trees they're all growing back again. It's dangerous, very dangerous," says resident Josefina

House OKs Energy Price-Gouging Punishment
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - WASHINGTON - The House approved criminal penalties and fines of up to $150 million Wednesday for energy companies caught price gouging as lawmakers responded to public anger over high gasoline prices and huge oil industry profits. The legislation