News Bits!
- A patient at South Austin Hospital started a fire in his room with a lighter yesterday. Charges may be filed if he survives the severe burn damage he suffered as a result of the fire.
- Our fair city is among those that the music industry is focusing on for their investigation into CD piracy.
- Public school students will have to find a new way to get their caffeine/sugar fix. The AP reports that coke/soda/pop will be a little harder to come by at the nation's schools.
- The nation of Qatar is granting millions of dollars to help the New Orleans area.
- Bush may not approve of the national anthem being sung in Spanish, but apparently the State Department has a few Spanish versions of the song on their website.
- Sure college-age kids can get book deals (and then lose them), but do they know where Iraq is on a map?
- Disturbing, yet still funny: An executive who embezzled a quarter of a million dollars from his charity to pay his dominatrix to beat him has been sentenced to a few years in prison.
- Barry Bonds is getting closer to passing Babe Ruth on the all-time home run list. We still believe 755 is out of reach.
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