Some Leads

1.

Imagine driving through the Great Plains on a family road trip and seeing cows grazing, farm houses, wide-open pastures, and giraffes. Anything sound unusual? Well, if the plans of some local ecologists and biologists succeed, this scenario just might happen.

2.

“My baby’s in the back seat!” Ethel Perakiss yelled, as a tall man in a white T-shirt pulled away from the gas station in her car with her baby girl in the back seat. What started as an ordinary day for one mother turned into a nightmare, when she stopped at the Quik Shoppe.

3.

Representative Constance P. Wei can often be found in congress, adamantly protesting a bill to ban cell phone use while driving. On Wednesday, however, Wei was found by police at the intersection of 29^th Street and Melrose Avenue with her dented Cadillac. She had rear-ended another car, belonging to Michael Jeffrys. The cause? She was on her cell phone.

4.

“Mom, do I have to go to school today?”

“No.”

“But it’s Friday.”

“I know.”

The weekend may be starting early for kids in the High Point school district permanently.

5.

“It just goes to show that you never really know your neighbors…” That is what one former neighbor, Marilyn Boudinot, said of the late Willie Hattaway, a retired construction worked. Until moving to a retirement home at the age of 97, the 98 year old lived most of his life in a modest two-story house and owned a 40 year old car. None of his neighbors knew he was a millionaire.

6.

Go back to kindergarten at the age of 27, or go to jail for 60 days—that’s the decision facing Sarah Zerwinn, the mother of six-year old, Jennifer. Some, such as defense attorney Miguel Aceveda, say the punishment is too harsh, others think it is necessary.