Reporting from Iraq: Comfort food for troops can pack on the pounds
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
There are many threats for the troops deployed here, but few as insidious as the bacon cheeseburger, French fries and soda.
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Troops sometimes pack on the pounds, just like civilians. Sometimes they skirt the mandatory three-times-a-week physical training or help themselves to a few more trips around the lunch line.
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more Local News
- County liable for damage from projects
- State water panel cancels workshop
- Grant funds art program at juvenile justice facility in El Rio
- Teen wants to combine business and neuroscience
Segment of highway to be named for Camarillo
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The stretch of Highway 101 from the top of the Conejo Grade to Lewis Road has been officially designated the Adolfo Camarillo Memorial Highway, in honor of the pioneer rancher for whom the city was named. Full story »
more Camarillo
- Child with rare disease awaits liver transplant
- Pleasant Valley district names 2 new principals
- Work set to start soon on 55-acre sports park
- CHP officer home after 6 months of recovery
Oak Park urged to alter selection of valedictorians
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Each year at many high schools, selected graduates are recognized as the top students — the valedictorians. Full story »
more Conejo Valley
- Teen wants to combine business and neuroscience
- T.O. plan to save mobile home parks questioned
- Professor will speak on women in Iran
- Church accepting food bank donations
Pacoima pilot killed in crash was avid aviator
Friday, July 4, 2008
An avid aviator, Russell Watts was a well-known and well-loved fixture at Whiteman Airport in Pacoima. Full story »
more Fillmore
- Council, school board OK construction plan
- Initiative on homes qualifies for ballot
- Business slow as sales at Fillmore stands begin
- Fillmore police to use decimeter to monitor vehicle noise
Reading club to host magic performance
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Moorpark Library's Summer Reading Club will present the magician Ivan Amodei on Tuesday at the Civic Center. Full story »
more Moorpark
- Moorpark approves $73 million budget
- In Moorpark, July 3 fun is same as the Fourth
- City OKs lease of land for new main post office
- Moorpark teen wins Congressional Award
Bridge to get temporary bypass
Sunday, July 6, 2008
The building blocks of a temporary river crossing were installed this week next to the San Antonio Creek Bridge in Ojai, which means traffic won't be diverted into neighborhoods once the bridge replacement project begins later this year. Full story »
more Ojai
- Pest management adviser retires
- Watershed district gets $1.2 million grant
- Fundraiser to benefit the Humane Society
- Reception set tonight for women's exhibit
Council to decide how to proceed on traffic initiative
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Oxnard traffic initiative appears to be on track to get on the Nov. 4 ballot, a city official and an attorney for the proponents said Monday. Full story »
more Oxnard
- Salsa Dash raises $5,000 for society
- Eight tall ships from race to stop at harbor
- Access to beach area to be restricted today
- Driver injured when vehicle strikes pole
Grant funds art program at juvenile justice facility in El Rio
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Her blond dreadlocks stood out in a room of dark-haired young women who waited for her direction. Wearing an apron stained with paint, Ventura muralist MB Hanrahan instructed 11 young women to grab their brushes, mix paint in small plastic-foam cups and get ready to work. Full story »
more Port Hueneme
- Councilman breaks several bones in fall
- Voters will be asked to OK sales tax raise
- Hueneme Rotary Club disbands
- Man arrested in stabbing death of Oxnard man
Man hit by Taser after street brawl
Monday, July 7, 2008
A Santa Paula man was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a fight in which an officer under attack fired his weapon, according to police reports. Full story »
more Santa Paula
- Library renovations to begin in Santa Paula
- Local artists to be featured downtown
- Low-cost housing issue confronts Santa Paula
- Santa Paula elementary district chief resigns post
Driver arrested after hitting light pole
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A car smashed into a power pole in Simi Valley on Friday night, downing power lines that severed the area's electricity and causing the car to burst into flames. Full story »
more Simi Valley
- College, museum joining on journal
- City gets recognition for financial policies
- School district office to close on Fridays
- Reagan display jibes with Simi youth baseball series
Must-have doggie items on display at Ventura show
Monday, July 7, 2008
The latest in pet food, grooming products and must-have doggie accessories were on display at the Summerfest Dog Show held over the weekend at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Vendors sold everything from gourmet meals to salon-quality shampoo and aromatherapy sprays. Full story »
more Ventura
- Two photographers chosen for ArtWalks
- 1 held after stabbing; couple hospitalized
- Dog fanciers vie for titles in Ventura
- Pet first aid course offered to owners
$6,000 reward offered in rock-throwing case
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Friends and relatives of a woman injured last month by a rock thrown from an overpass are offering more than $6,000 in return for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. Full story »
more County News
- People in Business: July 8
- CMH missed suit deadline intentionally, filing claims
- Weather may hurt Gap fire gains
- State water panel cancels workshop
Animal rights activists take protests to scientists' homes
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
In the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather. Full story »
more State
- Local farmers address state panel
- Grief over train deaths overwhelms court
- Missing boy safe; fugitive dad killed
- State Briefs: July 8
GM reportedly is considering brand and job cutbacks
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
General Motors Corp. may get rid of some brands, speed the introduction of small cars from other markets and make further white-collar job cuts as it tries to deal with a shrinking U.S. auto market. Full story »
more National
- G-8 progress slow on global warming
- Rescued U.S. hostage calls Colombian rebels 'terrorists'
- Nation Briefs: July 8
- Candidates duel on economic fixes
Runners elude bulls on first day of festival
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Daredevils kicked off the running of the bulls Monday with a long, messy and particularly dangerous dash through the streets of Pamplona, with nine people suffering bumps and bruises but none were gored, officials said. Full story »
more World
- 41 die near India embassy in Kabul
- World Briefs: July 8
- G-8 faces darkening economic time
- World summit provides look at Medvedev
Cason Point: Chinese cat brings wave of good fortune
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Our economy had been in boom town for so long, it feels like cardboard city these days. Home equity is tanking just as a tank of gas goes through the roof. The stock market is the pits just as everything with pits costs a fortune in the supermarkets. Even a so-called dead-cat bounce would look good about now, I recently told my husband. Full story »
more Colleen Cason
- Cason Point: Change signals end of era for rabbit ears
- Cason Point: Man works at turning death into another's life
- Cason Point: Sergeant reaches out from war zone in letters to students
- Cason Point: Executive's reply lacked the properly edited words
Montana's son enrolls at Oaks Christian
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Add another famous-named offspring to the Oaks Christian football roster. Full story »
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