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Girls Make $1 a Day to Stay Not-Pregnant
Girls between the ages of 12 to 18 have a lot of reasons to avoid getting pregnant, but a maternity nurse in North Carolina concluded that they needed one more source of motivation. The nurse decided to start College Bound Sisters, a program that offers girls with sisters who got pregnant before they were 18 $1 a day not to get pregnant themselves. Participants also have to attend weekly meetings.
Front Page: Nursing Home Gunman Kills 8, Faces Charges
- After a gunman in North Carolina killed eight people in a nursing home yesterday, police are investigating whether his estranged wife's employment there had something to do with it. The man faces eight counts of first-degree murder. — ABC News
- The Obama administration pushed out GM's chairman yesterday, and urged Chrysler to form a partnership with Italian car maker Fiat if it wants more government aid.
Bad Times Keep Us Put: Migration to South and West Slows
The intuitive trend in America to move to where the land is open and the climate warm has hit a road bump. Thanks to the housing crisis, which makes the idea of taking on a new mortgage scary and risky, people are staying put.
The population slowdown specifically hit the western and southern states, which had seen huge growth and migration over the last decade.
The South Needs Some Serious Gas Relief After Hurricanes
Fallout from Hurricane Ike and Gustav has spiraled into massive gas shortages in the Southeast. Drivers in Nashville, TN, where the problem is the worst, wait in long lines and some follow tankers around in hopes of being the first to fill up before a station goes dry.
In western North Carolina local governments have been forced to cancel programs, since there's not much gas to travel to activities.
North Carolina's Naughty License Plates Cause DMV Trouble
ROFL, OMG, etc. So North Carolina's DMV has to get cracking to cook up 10,000 replacement license plates after one 60-year-old grandmother got clued in by her text-savvy grandchild that her standard-issue plate, contained an acronym that expresses disbelief in an explicit fashion. As in, WTF.
Somebody Watching You? Peeping Toms Lurking Everywhere!
Citizens all over the world are not safe from Peeping Toms. Venice police just caught a man who had photographed the backsides of over 3,000 women, as they strolled around San Marco square. The man tailed the women wearing short skirts, carrying a bag with a camera, and filming their tails through a small hole in the bag.
So What Happens Now? The Election Keeps Keepin' On. . . .
I wonder if anyone is as exhausted as CBS must be this morning after having called Indiana so early, and then having to wait — alone— as Hillary's lead shrunk. They must have been sweating it to say the least. But when the counting was done, Hillary indeed took Indiana by a thin, two-point margin.
Awaiting Results: Obama Smokes Clinton in North Carolina
CNN is projecting that Barack Obama has lit up the ballot boxes and scored a win in the contest for North Carolina's 134 delegate votes.
He was expected to do well, and the exact number of delegates he'll take from the contest will be determined at the end of the counting, though it seems like he won by a sizeable margin. This is his first big state win in several contests.
Quiz Nation! How Well Do You Know the Candidates?
It's the beginning of the end of the beginning folks! With Indiana and North Carolina's polls closing in seconds, we're in the homeward stretch until June 3, when all the votes will be in and the big shake up will shake down.
Here's some fun while we wait!
Front Page: Cyclone Toll Hits 22,500, NC and IN Vote, War Funding and Troops Home
- Cyclone Toll Hits 22,500: The death toll from last weekend's devastating cyclone in Myanmar rose to 22,500 today with an additional 41,000 people still missing. Yesterday in a rare press conference, US First Lady Laura Bush urged the country's military leaders to accept US disaster response aid. Myanmar's resistance stems from heavy US sanctions against the junta, though the US State Department said a disaster response team was "standing by and ready to go into Burma," now known as Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military for 46 years.
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