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March 18, 2005

Friday in the news biz

It looks like we may run the story tomorrow (or Sunday) by Marjorie Hernandez about the effort to ban sodas and junk foods in high schools in California. It's a story we've had available for a few days but have held because of other stories and news packages that we wanted to get into print. This story is keyed to passage this week of the bill in a Senate committee implementing the ban. Kids and health officials comment on it.

Also for tomorrow we will have coverage of the press conference in Los Angeles this morning by Attorney General Bill Lockyer on a settlement with California Alternative High SChool. The school, which had classes in Oxnard and Simi Valley as well as Los Angeles, apparently is going to be required to pay back thousands of dollars to students. It granted them high school diplomas that, they later found out, were fairly worthless. Reporter John Scheibe (jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com) who broke this story for us last summer is covering the press conference.

The rain is beginning today so we'll be watching it. It's supposed to be a light storm so it probably won't be on Page One tomorrow, but ... you never know.

We'll be following the latest on the effort to stop the planned removal of the feeding tube for severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo.


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