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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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SUNSHINE WEEK: Thanks to those of you who sent us info on cell phone FOIAs. National reporter Lauren FitzPatrick is compiling your data, as well as collecting data from her own FOIAs of 50 federal agencies and all 50 states. Our package will be on the news service Thursday, with final updates Friday.
FAMILY TAB: GateHouse's first Family tab, a 24-page monthly publication, will be available on the news service March 12. "Family" is full of practical tips, insight and advice presented in a digestible format. Look for it Wednesday on the news service. Here's a promotional flier for the new publication.
TIME CHANGE! Short reminder to change your clocks this weekend, with the Time Change Rooster illustration.
ABOVE & BEYOND: New winner is Lisa Stratton from Fall River, Mass. Check out ghnewsroom.com.
Lifestyles
ST. PAT'S DAY: We have content packaged for St. Patrick's Day, and we'll content to add stories as they come in.
CHARLIZE THERON tackles another complex role in her latest, "Sleepwalking."
CARIBBEAN PRIDE: 15-year-old looks forward to U.S. citizenship but misses Cuba. Rockford
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AVAILABLE IN SPANISH: Estudiante trata de compaginar la vida entre sus dos culturas.
CONCENTRATION CAMP FILM: Scorcese film "Ashecliffe" recreates concentration camp. Taunton
Opinions
GRANLUND: Granlund cartoon on McCain getting Bush endorsement.
BRITT: Toon on the controversial Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan. Will be posted this afternoon.
WOOD ON WORDS: Since the early days of humans' application of electricity to mass communication, "tele-," from the Greek for "far off," has been the prefix of choice for inventing words to keep up with innovations in technology. Will be posted this afternoon.
KEVIN FRISCH: Of pagemates and politics. Canandaigua
PHILIP MADDOCKS: Phone companies offer new red phone plan in exchange for
immunity
KENT BUSH: Our political system is just as ridiculous as our founding fathers had
Sports
MATT TROWBRIDGE: Favre played with joy, but needed a mean streak. Rockford
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x1993295671
AROUND THE MLB: Weekly baseball roundup leads with item on how happy new Tigers Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera are. Andy Call/ Canton.
AROUND THE NBA: Weekly column by Chris Beaven, Canton.
AROUND THE NFL: Weekly column by Steve Doerschuk, Canton.
STATE-OWNED WRIGLEY FIELD? Depends on who is asked: Kriss Cochran might be a diehard Chicago Cubs fan, but even she thinks it's questionable for state government to purchase Wrigley Field and make renovations to the ball park. "I don't feel everyone in the state should pay for that," said Cochran, a Peoria resident. "What you are saying to everyone in the state is that we should work hard and pay our taxes for the Chicago Cubs." By John Sharp of the Peoria Journal Star.
News
THIS WEEK IN WEIRD: Weekly briefs package of weird news from GateHouse papers.
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Bush could get arrested if he goes to Vermont, where the candidates stand on faith-based initiatives and more. Two of the items have reader feedback -- please insert your paper's contact info.
HIGHER POWER: Doctors hope for Vatican support in anti-smoking effort - Reflecting the gravity and addictiveness of the health problem, two dozen area doctors and nurses are appealing to a higher authority to curtail cigarette use. When Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States in April, they plan to come armed with a petition with thousands of names asking the pope "to declare the Vatican the world's first country to ban tobacco in its entirety."
Herald News, Holtzman, 22 inches, on wire now
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MISSING WOMAN ASKED ABOUT DIVORCE: Attorney: Stacy Peterson asked about divorce before she vanished - Days before she went missing, Stacy Peterson spoke with the same lawyer who represented Kathleen Savio in her divorce from Drew Peterson, the attorney revealed Thursday on Roe Conn's WLS radio show. By Danya Hooker of Suburban Life Publications.
Business
BIZ BITS: Weekly business rail, with tax tips, food prices, the world's richest people and more.
ST. PAT'S SPENDING: Survey says St. Patrick's Day spending to decline. CNC
GARY BROWN: It's time to do my taxes - now where did put that stuff? Canton
STRESS ON THE JOB: Stressed out workers dreaming of sleep. Canandaigua
MEDITATION BIZ: Company creates and sells meditation programs - Long before starting his Holliston-based meditation company last year, Roger Dubois had been interested in meditation.
MetroWest, Tremblay, 20 inches, on wire now
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