| Every School Every Thursday -- West Des Moines & Clive
In support of the Character Counts pillar of citizenship, sixth-grade students participated in a mock caucus at school Jan. 3. The sixth-grade teachers presented some positive highlights about each candidate and then let the students discuss the candidates among themselves. Students practiced good debating and persuasion skills. The results were as follows: Barack Obama-58 percent, Mike Huckabee-22, Hillary Clinton-7, Mitt Romney-7, Bill Richardson-2, Rudy Giuliani-2, John McCain-1, and Ron Paul-1. The Jordan Creek waffle breakfast and book fair is scheduled for Jan. 26 in the community room at Jordan Creek. Tickets for the waffle breakfast are $5 in advance or $6 at the door. Volunteers are needed to help. Please call Wendi Roush, 267-1719 or Susan Kopaska, 221-3371. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the media center at Jordan Creek.
Woman accused of stealing $175,000 from Novato firm
A 34-year-old Napa woman has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $175,000 from the Novato construction company where she worked as a bookkeeper, police said. Kristy Lynn Gordon is in custody at the county jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. Prosecutors did not file charges Wednesday pending further review, and Gordon was scheduled to appear in court Thursday. The investigation began Friday when Gordon's employer, Tarrant Construction Inc. of Bel Marin Keys, told police it suspected the bookkeeper of stealing company funds. Gordon was arrested at work Tuesday morning. Investigators suspect the embezzlement occurred from 1999 to the present, said Novato police Sgt. Keith Heiden. Police recovered items at Gordon's residence - including exercise equipment and electronics - they suspect were purchased with a stolen credit card, Heiden said.
Ribeiro Carries Stars Past Predators
Mike Ribeiro had two goals and two assists and the Dallas Stars beat the Nashville Predators 6-3 on Saturday night. Loui Eriksson also had two goals for the Stars, who have won eleven of their last 13 games. Antti Miettinen and Brenden Morrow added scores for Dallas. Ville Koistinen, J.P. Dumont and Ryan Suter scored for Nashville, losers of two straight. Ribeiro's two goals came in the second period. With the scored tied at 1, he tapped a rebound of a slap shot by Matt Niskanen into an empty net. Then, with the score knotted at 2, he added his 26th goal of the year with 3.9 seconds left in the period. Miettinen made it 1-0 at 11:29 of the first period with his 13th goal of the season, beating Nashville goaltender Dan Ellis on the stick side with a one-timer from the left faceoff dot off of a pass from Jussi Jokinen.
Cuts could halt courts, judges warn
Traffic court would stop. Abuse cases and child-custody hearings would be postponed. Banks would face long delays getting foreclosed homes back on the market. And alimony, divorce and commercial litigation hearings would come to a halt. That's what will happen, the state's top judges warned lawmakers Tuesday, if the Legislature's proposed budget cuts for the current year go into effect. The dire predictions are the latest alarm sounded in Florida's growing budget crisis as Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders say they need millions in new budget cuts by June 30 to balance the 2007-08 budget and another $3 billion in cuts next year. JUDGES' PLEA The chief judges of the state's 20 circuit courts and Fred Lewis, chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, paraded before lawmakers to urge them to spare the court system and allow them to make alternative cuts that don't affect the administration of justice.
Stayaway Reebok fans: What's the answer?
And, while they are considering a range of incentives to boost gates, they don't expect any significant improvement until the team starts climbing the table. "The stark reality is that the club is struggling on the pitch," commercial director, Gareth Moores, said. .
Kleiza, Najera remain Nuggets
At the Pepsi Center on Thursday, the Nuggets' diamond-encrusted watches simultaneously ticked 1 p.m., and there stood Linas Kleiza on the practice court, his gym bag packed for tonight's Nuggets game at Chicago. "I'm still here, baby," Kleiza said, as the NBA trade deadline passed. The Nuggets decided not to trade the 23-year-old for Sacramento's Ron Artest, opting instead to make one minor trade, shipping seldom-used guard Von Wafer to Portland for seldom-used guard Taurean Green. Multiple sources close to the situation said the Kings would not trade Artest unless they received Kleiza. The decision not to acquire Artest, much debated by Nuggets fans, came with multiple explanations from the team. For one, Denver would have .
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