Through the Wire (MultiChannel News)

By Linda Haugsted, with bureau reports. -- Multichannel News, 4/15/2002 It's been said that The Weather Channel doesn't make the weather, it only reports it.

See gorillas up close in Rwanda (Chicago Sun-Times)

VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda -- Something is cracking, crunching and rustling its way through the jungle. The noise is loud. It sounds closer. Our guide, Olivier Mutuyimama, pauses, extends his arm and holds us back.

11:43 a.m. City dwellers learn ropes of rural life (The Joplin Globe)

NEVADA, Mo. (AP) — Flooded country roads. Roving packs of dogs with no owners in sight. Overgrown weeds as far as the eye can see.

In Tomorrow's Paper (EdmontonSun.com)

When they buried Cpl. Bryce Keller under the shade of tall evergreens in Sherwood Park, Alta., two weeks after he was killed during a Taliban ambush in an Afghanistan village, the records showed another national hero was laid to rest.

Halloween Costume Couture for Hard Times (Lodi News-Sentinel)

What's scarier than, say, ooze-drooling goblins, flesh-eating serial killers and possessed, head-spinning teenagers? How about a creepy economy, drained bank account and wide-eyed children nagging you to buy them the grandest and most expensive costumes of this Halloween season?