1. Three to four children die every day in the United States from child abuse or neglect according to a survey released yesterday by the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Baltimore.
2. Yesterday nearly 150 of the anti-abortion protesters were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct as they demonstrated outside an abortion clinic in Milwaukee.
3. A delivery driver for The Great Wall of China restaurant was robbed at gunpoint yesterday at the apartment complex at 718 S.W. Western Ave.
4. A fire at the 2300 block of Main Street caused $45,000 in damages and left homeowner Kathy Mahoney with minor burns before firefighters were able to put out the blaze.
5. Murders in Colorado are up 53 percent and violent crime increased by 2 percent according to a report released yesterday by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
6. The increasing damage to the ozone layer could lead to a 10 percent increase in skin cancer according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Environment Program.
7. A Santa Ana woman was charged with attempted murder yesterday after she doused her wheelchair-bound husband with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire.
8. According to Neilson/NetRatings, more people now use broadband than dial-up, as 53 percent of residential users have now made the switch to broadband.
9. This school year, Princeton University put a cap on the number of A’s which can be awarded in order to stem down grade inflation.
10. According to the National Sleep Foundation, as many as 47 million adults may be putting themselves at risk for injury, because they aren't meeting their minimum sleep need in order to be fully alert the next day.
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