National Budget for 7.18.07
GateHouse News Service National Budget For 7.18.07 editions
Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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News
GUN-TURN - CHICAGO: The city of Chicago, which has been plagued with fatal shootings this summer, is staging its third annual gun turn-in. Residents can surrender a firearm at 23 locations on Saturday - no questions asked - and receive a $100 gift card. RAMSEY/CHICAGO BUREAU/moving this evening/Category: Illinois News
WOMEN ON A MISSION - Eight mothers with addicted children will drive 14 hours from Boston to join national demonstration outside Virginia courthouse Friday where OxyContin makers will be sentenced. Updating recent overdose deaths. Enterprise, Maureen Boyle, 18 inches, 6 p.m.
TEXTING TEENS - The New York cheerleader who swerved and hit a truck in an accident that killed her and her friends had a cell phone that was getting and receiving text messages just before the crash. MESSENGER POST, News
Sports
NADEL COLUMN: Writing tonight from the Cubs-Giants game - maybe something about Bonds./late posting/MIKE NADEL/columnist/Categories: Illinois Sports, Columns and Cubs.
BOXING COMEBACK - After two years off, and some major changes in his life that he admits included a lot of growing up, Nick Morganelli Jr. returns to the pro ranks Wednesday night. Patriot Ledger, Miller, 20 inches, on wire now
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Opinions
EDITORIAL - MAKEUP DAYS: Some days are just a little easier for editorial writers. For instance, when some spot-in-the-road in Vermont kicks our cosmopolitan city's behind to win the premiere of a cartoon movie ... And, of course, when the governor uses $600 in state funds to pay for a makeup artist to pretty him up for his State of the State and budget speech./editorial/Springfield/moved Monday night/category: Illinois Opinion
EDITORIAL - CONGRESS PLAYS WITH CHENEY'S PURSE STRINGS: No doubt it's empty rhetoric, just a little flex of muscle for show, but the move by some Senate Democrats to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney's office for thinking he's America's czar, immune to the proletariat's pestering of him from the threadbare seats its members occupy in Congress, is a delicious bit of theater nonetheless./editorial/Peoria/moved Monday/category: Illinois Opinion
-- and other new editorials moved Monday/category: Illinois Opinion
RICK HOLMES COLUMN - Will Democrats in Washington use their newfound clout to silence conservative talk radio? MetroWest Daily News, 6 p.m.
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Lifestyles (Wednesday is Food)
SUMMER FARE -- It's hot, you're sweaty and the only things that sound appetizing are, depending upon your palate, ice cream or beer. But there are so many other satisfying food choices that can enhance your summer health outlook and not sign on as diet saboteurs. CANTON / Food
HOT DOG OBSESSION - Our nation's obsession with hot dogs can't possibly be healthy, right? National Hot Dog Day (and month) is upon us, with Americans eating 7 billion dogs each summer despite warnings that wieners may not be the healthiest option out there. PATRIOT LEDGER / Lifestyle
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TONS OF TOMATOES: Hillibish column -- We gripe about their cardboard cousins, the hot-house ones. Then we spend all winter poring over seed catalogues, choosing the best among the rest. We take a chance that the frost season is over, and plant them in mid-spring in hole carefully filled with compost and manure. We nurse them along, and
along. And suddenly, come mid-August, we have so many tomatoes we're yelling for help. In two days we can't look at another one without getting sick and breaking out in acid hives. CANTON / In / Food columns
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TEN-TOED THERAPY - Liliane Sklenarik gets two responses when she tells people she gives massages with her feet. MetroWest Daily News, Lord, 20 inches, on wire now
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Coming for Thursday
JAPANESE BEETLES -- Every 15 minutes or so, a panicked victim of a Japanese beetle attack rushes into Rice's Nursery in and asks manager Steve Maddox for help. They are desperate, often clutching hole-riddled leaves from their flower beds and gardens. "Oh, my God ... what do I need to do?" If sales of beetle traps and other anti-bug products are any indication, Maddox said this is looking to be a prolific summer for the shiny, green beetles, now in their 91st year in the United States. NORWICH, In, Home & Garden
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