Like a superhero, I had jumped from one roof to another in a single bound; climbed trees and parachuted to earth with an old umbrella; caught snakes and scorpions with my bare hands; ridden my bicycle hands-free -- downhill; and brought one of my fathers speculums to school for show-and-tell. Like a superhero, I had jumped from one roof to another in a single bound; climbed trees and parachuted to earth with an old umbrella; caught snakes and scorpions with my bare hands; ridden my bicycle...

But the sales of other products such as premium cigars, small cigars, hookahs and smokeless tobacco have increased modestly, he said. Rising awareness of the health dangers of tobacco means fewer people push the door of the nearly centennial store, and the business is dying its slow death. In California, each pack of cigarettes is taxed 87 cents, and other tobacco products are taxed at 46. Like other tobacconists across the nation, Radich suffers from tobacco having fallen out of the...

They say workers are also becoming harder to find because of an increase in enforcement raids that have made it more costly for laborers to sneak into the U. Some fear North Carolina will suffer like California did last year, when a shortage of workers there resulted in rotting crops because there wasn't anyone to harvest them. A comprehensive immigration reform plan supported by President Bush and a group of bipartisan senators fell 15 votes short of the 60 needed on Thursday. Brent...

Jenny, 30, graduated from Scott County High School and attended the University of Kentucky, earning a degree in agricultural economics with an emphasis on food marketing, a course of study which would come in handy as the family farm business changed. I raise a good crop and she can sell a good crop. While they waited, they still ran a traditional Kentucky tobacco farm. So we started raising vegetables in 1993 to send her to college. I schedule the employees, and I help with making the jam...

MARQUETTE Law enforcement officials, community leaders and legislators gathered Friday at the Landmark Inn to discuss how children s programs help reduce crime, and the need for investment in those programs. Prevention programs include after-school programs, early childhood learning and abuse and neglect prevention. Marquette County Sheriff Mike Loveless presented information on crime statistics, saying the highest juvenile crime rate occurs right after the school day ends, and when...

Cigarette makers should not be spared the pressure of producing a less long-lasting and environmentally harmful product. It is the apparent insignificance of a discarded cigarette butt that makes it almost as insidious in the harm it does as the smoke that enters the smoker s lungs. This poses an enduring environmental hazard, as the filter material takes up to 12 years to break down and releases traces of the 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes. But it is worth pausing for historical...