News for The Week Ending May 9, 2008

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AP is reporting a passenger train was placed under quarantine Friday in northern Ontario after an undetermined illness left one woman dead and at least 10 other people sick. The cross-country Via Rail passenger train was en route from Vancouver to Toronto. Emergency personnel received a call Friday morning and the train was met at the station in Foleyet, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) northwest of Toronto.

UF Football Player Used Dead Girl’s Credit Card
In another AP story, Jamar Hornsby, a 21-year-old junior safety University of Florida football player turned himself in Friday on charges he has, for six months, used the credit card of a woman who was killed along with another player in a motorcycle accident.

Missing Town ‘N Country Boy Shows Up At School
8 year old Sinclair Baldwin went missing last night for a second time. His mother reported it about 11pm. Sherriff’s deputies searched all night, and then the Principal called this morning to say he had showed up at school. At least he took himself to school.

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.

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