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Mon, May 12 2008

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FRIDAY: Records show Sharpton owes overdue taxes, other penalties (5:33 p.m.)

NEW YORK (AP) — Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor’s mansion.....more>>

FRIDAY: Mother suspected drugs in missing girl case (4:31 p.m.)
More details have emerged about the search for a missing girl that took sheriff’s deputies from Newfane to the Town of Tonawanda on Thursday afternoon.
FRIDAY: Members of 914th Airlift Wing in Niagara Falls head to Iraq (3:16 p.m.)
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — More than 70 members of the 914th Airlift Wing are off to Iraq.
FRIDAY: Tonawanda man, 86, accused of hitting woman (2:31 p.m.)
An 86-year-old City of Tonawanda man was charged with harassment, menacing and obstructing governmental administration on Thursday afternoon, police reported.
FRIDAY: Officials break ground on $2.4 million tourism center (2:11 p.m.)
The new $2.4 million Niagara USA Visitor Center is billed to be many things — a hub of information showcasing countywide attractions, administrative offices for the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. and a place to buy “one-of-a-kind” souvenirs.
FRIDAY: Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad (1:47 p.m.)
BAGHDAD (AP) — Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau.
FRIDAY: UN to resume food aid flights to Myanmar (11:52 p.m.)
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says it will resume food aid flights to Myanmar on Saturday.
FRIDAY: Gas jumps above $3.67, oil passes $126 on Venezuela concerns (11:00 a.m.)
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut exports from the OPEC member.
FRIDAY: Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods (10:00 a.m.)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital’s Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday in the country’s worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.
THURSDAY: Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit (6:17 p.m.)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters on Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.

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Sports

• COLLEGE ROUNDUP (May 12): NCCC falls to Hudson Valley
• BOWLING: Leighton Jr., Vitagliano roll 300s in USBC-BA Tournament
• BILLS DOSE: Bruce Smith to be added to Wall
• REGISTRATIONS: Published May 12
• BASEPATHS: Keeping score not as easy as it looks

Opinion

• OUR VIEW: Scrap meters: All of them
• LUCINSKI: Avoid battle over Army Center
• HAMILTON: Mother’s Day carnations
• CHEERS & JEERS: May 9's best and worst
• GUEST VIEW: Recognizing the young and uninsured

Communities

• TOWN OF NIAGARA: Purchase will help combat speeding
• YOUNGSTOWN: Former POW returns to Niagara
• TOWN OF NIAGARA: The trash talk is over
• LEWISTON: Marra to seek re-election in village
• YOUNGSTOWN: Languishing development upsets residents, officials

Night & Day

• 'Speed Racer' reviewed
• MUSIC: Artpark schedule announced
• THEATER: Arthur opens Artpark season
• MUSIC: 'American Idols' messing up lyrics
• ENTERTAINMENT: Fresh off quiet spell, Britney Spears expected in LA court

Niagara Living

• AUDIO SLIDESHOW: The Niagara County Sheriffs' Mounted Division.
• TINY TREASURES: Geocaching in the Niagara region
• VIDEO: Watch the Puff Girls make marshmallow magic!
• VIDEO: Niagara Falls bed and breakfast owners band together
• VIDEO: Tour the Lockport Sleep Medicine Center

Lifestyle

• LIFESTYLE: Fictional mothers can teach us a lot
• ENViRONMENT: More Americans feel guilty for not living greener
• HEALTH: New dads twice as likely to become depressed
• HEALTH: Action is louder than weight
• LIFESTYLE: Coupon clippers seek savings

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