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5,000 Evacuated as ASU Memorial Union burns
SUMMARY: The Memorial Union was evacuated shortly after the fire started around 12:48 p.m. There were up to 5,000 people in the building who were evacuated, the Tempe Fire Department spokesman Mike Reichling said. Neither the area around the building nor any other buildings was evacuated.
No injuries were reported and there was no structural collapse.

OPINION: WOW THAT iS SO CRAZY. THERE ARENT ANY REPORTS STATiNG MAYBE WHERE OR HOW THE FiRE STARTED...JUST THAT iT STARTED AND THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED BECAUSE OF. ALTHOUGH THE STORY HAD HORRiBLE DETAiL, i WAS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT NO ONE GOT HURT [THAT THEY KNOW OF] AND THE BUILDING STiLL STANDS. HOPEFULLY THE BUiLDiNG CAN BE REPAiRED SOON SO THE STUDENTS CAN CONTiNUE SCHOOL AND MOVE ON.


RATTLERS V. BLAZE
SUMMARY: The Arena Football League's 22nd season will begin on Feb. 29 when the Los Angeles Avengers host the New Orleans VooDoo.The Arizona Rattlers open their season at Utah against former head coach Danny White on Saturday, March 1.The opening weekend schedule concludes with defending champion San Jose at Chicago on Monday night, March 3 in a rematch of the 2007 American Conference championship game.

OPINION: ARiZONA vs. UTAH hmm...THATS PRETTY EXCiTiNG iF i MUST SAY SO MYSELF. WELL THE REASON FOR MY EXCiTEMENT iS THAT MY COUSiN, former arizona rattler RYAN DENNARD, NOW PLAYS FOR UTAH BLAZE. i MEAN THATS LiKE ME PLAYiNG BALL FOR P.C. AND THEN GOiNG TO...hmmm i DONT KNOW..LETS SAAAY...VALLEY CHRiSTiAN!!!!!! AND PLAYiNG P.C...THE EXCiTMENT iS DEFiNATELY GROWiNG! UNLESS OF COURSE THE UTAH BLAZE LOSE[God forbid], WHiCH WOULD BE SUPER EMBARRASSiNG. WELL GOOD LUCK TO BOTH TEAMS...AWWW WHAT THE HECK! i HOPE THE RATTLERS GET THEiR BEHiNDS HANDED TO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!


Doctors Who Treat Elderly, Disabled to Face 10 Percent Cut in Medicare Reimbursement Rates
SUMMARY: Doctors who treat the elderly and disabled will face a 10 percent cut in their reimbursement rates from Medicare next year under a federal rule issued Thursday. The rate cut was widely expected. It's based on a formula that takes into account spending growth. If spending growth for physician services exceeds projections, the formula dictates lower reimbursement rates. Similar cuts have been proposed every year since 2002, but Congress has stepped in every year except one to avoid them.


OPINION: EX-SPEN-SiVE!!!!!! WOW THE LAWMAKERS ARE GOiNG TO HAVE TO GET MiLLiONS...WAiT, BiLLiONS OF DOLLARS FROM FEDERAL PROGRAMS iF DOCTORS GET PAiD MORE!!! THEiR ALSO TRYiNG TO REDUCE PAYMENTS TO PRiVATE iNSURANCE COMPANiES THAT COVER BENEFiCiARiES THROUGH THE MEDiCARE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM...AH-AH-AHHH! NOT SO FAST! THAT WOULD REDUCE THE BENEFiTS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE! DUMB iDEA...



Michigan Woman Accused of Attacking Husband With Fork Pleads No Contest to Lesser Charge
SUMMARY: A woman accused of stabbing her husband with a fork during a fight at a restaurant has pleaded no contest to reduced charges of being drunk and disorderly. Canton Township police and the Wayne County prosecutor's office had pressed a felonious assault case against Kelly Campbell-Baumgartner, despite her husband's objections. But a county judge dismissed the felony charge, and Campbell-Baumgartner entered the plea Monday in exchange for the dismissal of a misdemeanor assault and battery charge. The judge ordered her to pay $350 in fines. William Baumgartner earlier denied he had been stabbed in the April incident and said he had no interest in charges against his wife.

OPINION: HAHAHA... GREAT MOVE ON THE HUSBANDS PART! i MEAN iF SHE REALLY DiD STAB HiM[which she probably did] AND HE PRESSED CHARGES AND TESTiFiED AGAiNST HER, iM SURE AFTER HER PUNiSHMENT HE WOULD GET MORE THAN A LiTTLE POKE WiTH A FORK! COME ON THE POOR GUY iS AFRAiD OF HiS WiFE! HAHAHA THiS CRACKS ME UP! CRAZY LADY!!! OBViOUSLY SOMEONE ELSE SAW WHAT HAPPENED AT THE DiNNER TABLE AND REPORTED iT SiNCE THiS GUY iS DENYING THE WHOLE THiNG EVEN HAPPENED. i THiNK iF iT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE OF A FUSS, AND THE COURT WOULD HAVE LOOKED AT iT AS MORE OF AN iSSUE. BUT SiNCE SHE iS A FEMALE iT iSNT SO BAD...WRONG!!!!!


Iowa Woman Takes Out Newspaper Ad to Sell 100 Ounces of Her Breast Milk for $200
SUMMARY:A woman who doesn't want her breast milk to go to waste has taken out a newspaper ad in hopes of selling it. Martha Heller, 22, of Tiffin, took out the ad in The Gazette, offering 100 ounces of her breast milk for $200 or the best offer. Heller said her freezer is overflowing with breast milk that she has pumped since August. Her 4-month-old daughter won't drink from a bottle and the supply is piling up. Heller now donates to the University of Iowa's Mother's Milk Bank, but the 100 ounces of milk she wants to sell was pumped before going through the screening process for the bank and cannot be donated.


OPINION: EEEEEEEW!!!! i DiDNT EVEN KNOW WOMEN COULD DO THAT! WELL i KNEW ABOUT THE MiLK, BUT i DiDNT KNOW THAT BABiES THAT ARENT PATERNALLY THEiRS COULD DRiNK THEiR BREAST MiLK...[hurl] i THiNK SHES DOiNG WHATEVER SHE CAN TO GET MONEY...SELL YOUR BREAST MiLK! iTS NOT LiKE AN OUTFiT SHE BOUGHT, AND SiNCE THE BABY COULDNT FiT iT DHE TAKES iT BACK FOR A MONEY REFUND...OH NO! iTS BREAST MiLK...FREEEEEE! SO WHY NOT JUST POOR iT OUT LADY?!?!?! WOW... "FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY!"