Four separate alcohol issues are on the ballot today in Asheboro. Nine polling places will be open in Asheboro from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. What are people saying in Asheboro? http://community.myfoxwghp.com/blogs/FOX8WebTeam/2008/07/24/Asheboro_to_Vote_on_Alcohol
http://safeandhealthyasheboro.com/2008/kids-should-decide-the-alcohol-vote/
Sex offenders who commit certain crimes against children will face at least 25 years in prison under a new North Carolina law. Governor Mike Easley signed into law the measure known as Jessica's Law…named after 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. In 2005, Jessica (formerly from Gaston County) was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and buried alive by a convicted sex offender in Florida. www.wxii12.com/news/17017390/detail.html
A suicide hot line launched a year ago has received calls from more than 22,000 veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars and has prevented over 1,200 suicides. According to U.S. government figures released on Monday, the government suicide hot gets up to 250 calls a day. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=617881
Psychological distress -- including anxiety and depression -- increases a man's risk of developing type 2-diabetes. In women, the Swedish study showed NO correlation between psychological distress and diabetes. The study appears in the journal Diabetic Medicine.
www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=617881
Starting this Friday, all public schools in North Carolina will be tobacco-free. By law, each of the state's 115 school systems will have a ban on smoking and other tobacco useage by anyone on campus or at off-campus school events. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/jul/28/all-nc-public-schools-be-tobacco-free-friday/
Hawk Nelson is JC Penny’s Friend? Remember the song by the 80’s group Simple Minds "Don't You Forget About Me?” Well Christian rock band Hawk Nelson’s cover of that song can be heard on JC Penny’s latest TV "Get That Look" ad campaign. To check out Hawk Nelson's version at the JC Penny site www.jcpenney.com/jcp/default.aspx (click on “Get That Look”).
www.hawknelson.com/interim2008/
(THREE RIVERS, Michigan) The Jokes on 20 year old Spencer. Police in Michigan have arrested a man who they say tried to steal movie posters and other items related to the latest Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight’ from a cinema lobby…while dressed up as the ‘Joker’.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080729/D927GO1G9.html
The popular urban street pastime called double dutch, in which competitors jump between two ropes twirled eggbeater-style, is getting more recognition, becoming an officially sanctioned sport in New York City high schools. Double dutch will be a spring sport this coming school year after basketball season is over and there is space in the gyms. According to the National Double Dutch League, Dutch settlers brought the game to New York in colonial times - hence the name.
It has been a competitive sport in New York since the 1970s when police.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080726/D925RC0G1.html
The North Carolina Sales Tax Holiday Weekend is coming up this weekend August 1 through August 3. www.dor.state.nc.us/taxes/sales/salestax_holiday.html
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST PAUL HAMM HAS DECIDED TO DROP OUT OF THE UPCOMING SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING. Hamm who won gold in 2004 broke his hand back in May. Rehab on the hand has not helped to get Hamm back to 100%. One of three alternates will take his place. Hamm began his return to competitive gymnastics in August 2007 after taking three years off to complete his education.
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