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WHAT? MORE F's?

WHAT? MORE Fs? ... Man, oh, man, we get so tired of reporting the neverending string of Fs our state and its leaders are earning in various realms. Here are the two latest:

1. U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) recently released its annual Congressional Scorecard of U.S. Senators and Representatives on major public interest issues. Idaho stayed true to from:

Larry Craig 0% Lifetime score: 4%

Mike Crapo 0% Lifetime score: 4%

Butch Otter 10% Life time score: n/a

Mike Simpson 5% …

World stocks rise on proposed US bailout

Global markets rose Monday after the U.S. government proposed a US$700 billion plan to solve the world financial crisis by rescuing banks from billions of dollars in risky mortgage debt.

European markets edged higher in early trading, then slumped slightly before rising again. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.22 percent to 5,323.17, Germany's DAX advanced 0.42 percent to 6,215.70 and France's CAC 40 strengthened 0.27 percent to 4,336.47.

"There was massive reaction on Friday, today there is an element of profit-taking and a bit of reality of people worrying about the world economy as we see the price of oil move higher again," said Stephen Pope, chief …

Local & National scoreboard

BASEBALL

South Atlantic League

Northern Division

W L Pct. GB

x-Lakewood (Phillies) 24 15 .615 -

Hickory (Rangers) 22 16 .579 11/2

Greensboro (Marlins) 20 19 .513 4

Kannapolis (White Sox) 18 21 .462 6

West Virginia (Pirates) 17 21 .447 61/2

Delmarva (Orioles) 16 22 .421 71/2

Hagerstown (Nationals) 13 25 .342 101/2

Southern Division

W L Pct. GB

Asheville (Rockies) 23 16 .590 -

Greenville (Red Sox) 23 16 .590 -

Charleston (Yankees) 21 18 .538 2

Lexington (Astros) 20 18 .526 21/2

Augusta (Giants) 19 19 .500 31/2

Rome (Braves) 19 20 .487 4

x-Savannah (Mets) 15 24 …

Pro Cyclist Describes Doping Techniques

MALIBU, Calif. - A midlevel pro cyclist testified he was a drug cheat at the Floyd Landis arbitration hearing Friday, describing in detail how synthetic testosterone helped him recover in multi-day stage races like the Tour de France.

Joe Papp, who received a two-year doping suspension that hadn't been made public until this testimony, was brought to the witness stand by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

USADA used his testimony to refute earlier claims made by Landis' attorneys that testosterone couldn't help Landis win the 2006 Tour and that he'd be crazy to use it if he knew he might be tested.

"It's such a false statement that it makes me angry," Papp said. "Why …

Kim Clijsters withdraws from Wimbledon with foot injury

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Kim Clijsters …

Volkswagen's Q2 profit up strongly at $1.6B

Sales at Volkswagen AG motored ahead in the second quarter thanks in part to strong demand from China, pushing the automaker's earnings sharply higher to euro1.25 billion ($1.6 billion), the company said Thursday.

The company, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, had earnings of euro283 million in last year's April-June period.

Revenue was up 21.9 percent, rising to euro33.16 billion from euro27.2 billion.

Volkswagen sold 12.6 percent more cars, rising to 1.86 million from 1.66 million.

Volkswagen cautioned that "the dynamic growth in ... revenue and …

Healey's injustice

Life extends to everyone countless opportunities to help others. Most people find that these divine invitations are too inconvenient, but not Deval Patrick. He is committed to fairness, compassion and justice.

In 1998, Patrick wrote a letter on behalf of Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist who had already served 15 years in prison and was eligible for parole. Patrick became involved for two reasons. There was substantial evidence that the prosecution was flawed, and he became convinced that LaGuer had attained a state of mind that made it unlikely that he could commit such a crime in the future.

For some inexplicable reason, a Boston journalist seems to believe that such …

Oilers-Panthers, Sums

…

Edmonton 0 1 2 0_4
Florida 1 0 2 0_3
Edmonton won shootout 1-0
First Period_1, Florida, Campbell 5, 1:18 (sh). Penalties_Jokinen, Fla (slashing), 1:00	Hemsky, Edm (tripping), 7:49.
Second Period_2, Edmonton, Moreau 4, 16:31. Penalties_Salei, Fla (cross-checking), 4:40	Jokinen, Fla (hooking), 7:44	Penner, Edm (goalie interference), 8:09	Moreau, Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct), 14:18	Horton, Fla (interference), 15:08	Cogliano, Edm (hooking), 15:40.

All For The Tube Broadcasting doesn't just bring in the money; it actually popularises sport.

It is not for nothing that advertisers bet big bucks on sports ontelevision. And it's not for nothing that broadcasters commitmillions of dollars for sports acquisition rights; the per dayacquisition cost of India-cricket (read: cricket for which the rightsvest with Board of Control for Cricket in India or BCCI) is around Rs11 crore a day. Cricket alone accounted for 9 per cent of the totalad spend on tv (Rs 9,000 crore) in 2003. That was a whopping Rs 800-odd crore. The amount came down to Rs 450-500 crore last year; 2003saw the World Cup, and in the Indian broadcasting firmament 2004 wascharacterised by legal squabbling over cricket broadcast rights.

Fact is, no one, …

SPRINKLER EXPECTATIONS

STATE

Rule's repeal will jolt business, homebuilders say

Regional homebuilders expect new-home sales to increase since a state sprinkler system mandate was repealed this week.

They didn't say by how much they expect sales to grow, but the regulation that affected single-family homebuilders as of Jan. 1 already was helping to depress the market, builders said.

The mandate was added to the state's Uniform Construction Code in 2009. It required multifamily residential developers to include sprinklers in three or more attached units built last year, and singlefamily and duplex homebuilders had to include sprinklers in houses this year.

The Pennsylvania …

Japan, US, South Korea meet on how to drive forward North Korea nuclear talks

Nuclear negotiators from Japan, the United States and South Korea met Thursday and reaffirmed the need to push forward six-party talks with North Korea that have been stalled for months.

The meeting came after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that she expected North Korea to soon provide a delayed account of its nuclear weapons activities. In return, Washington may take the North off of its list of terror-supporting nations.

"Obviously we are at a very important phase in the six-party talks," chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill said after meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Akitaka Saiki, and South Korea's Kim Sook at …

MACDONALD, HON. RODNEY JOSEPH, B.Sc.Ph.Ed. MLA (Inverness) Minister of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, Minister of Health Promotion and Minister in charge of the administration of the Heritage Property Act.

B. Jan. 2, 1972 in Inverness, N.S. S. of Alex Angus and Elizabeth Ann. Ed. at St. Francis Xavier Univ. (B.Sc.Ph.Ed.). M. Dec. 30, 1994 to Lori Ann Gillis. One child: Ryan. Political Career: First elected to the N.S. Leg. g.e. 1999. Re-elected g.e. 2003. Appt'd: Min. of Tourism and Culture, Min. in charge of the administration of the Heritage Property Act and Min. resp. for the administration of the Liquor Control Act, Aug. 13, 1999 and Min. resp. for the N.S. Sport and …

Police blotter

Firefighters find apparent meth lab

St. Albans firefighters found what appeared to be amethamphetamine lab after responding to a blaze at a home on the 1400block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Firefighters made the discovery after extinguishing the blaze,which caused minimal damage to the home's kitchen and dining room,said Sgt. James Agee of the St. Albans Police Department

Once the apparent lab was noticed, Agee said an officer from theMetro Drug Unit was called in to collect samples and remove them fortesting.

"Lab tests will have to be done to determine whether or not it wasa meth lab," Agee said, "but there are indications that it could be."

No one was home at the time of the fire, which emergency crewsresponded to about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, and no injuries were reported.Two dogs staying at the home had to be taken to the Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association Animal Shelter, Agee said.

The fire department's arson investigator is still trying todetermine what caused the blaze, Agee said.

Judge orders return of polygamist group's children

A judge on Monday ordered the return of more than 400 children taken from their parents at a polygamist group's ranch, following the state Supreme Court ruling that the state's seizure of the youngsters wasn't justified.

The order signed by Texas District Judge Barbara Walther allowed parents to begin picking up their children from foster care at 10 a.m. CDT.

In exchange for regaining custody, the parents are not being allowed to leave Texas without court permission and must participate in parenting classes. They were also ordered not to interfere with any child abuse investigation and to allow the children to undergo psychiatric or medical exams if required.

"We're really grateful to get the order signed," said Willie Jessop, an elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the sect that runs the ranch in West Texas.

The judge's order requires that parents allow children's welfare workers to make unannounced visits and that the families notify CPS if they plan to travel more than 100 miles from their homes.

Jessop said without elaborating that he had hoped for a less restrictive order.

The order comes just days after the Texas Supreme Court said Texas Child Protective Services overreached its authority in seizing custody of the children nearly two months ago.

The group denies any abuse of the children. Church officials say they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. The FLDS, whose members believe polygamy earns glorification in heaven, is a breakaway sect of the Mormon church, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago.

The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed an appeals court ruling ordering Walther to reverse her decision in April putting all children from the ranch into foster case. The Supreme Court and the appeals court rejected the state's argument that all the children were in immediate danger from what it said was a cycle of sexual abuse of teenage girls at the ranch.

Half the children sent to foster care were no older than 5.

The Third Court of Appeals last week ruled that the state failed to show that any more than five of the teenage girls were being sexually abused, and that it had offered no evidence of sexual or physical abuse against the other children.

Roughly 430 children from the ranch are in foster care after two births, numerous reclassifications of adult women initially held as minors and a handful of agreements allowing parents to keep custody while the Supreme Court considered the case.

It's not clear how many might return to the ranch right away. Many of the parents have purchased or rented homes in Amarillo, San Antonio and other places around the state where the children were placed in foster facilities.