| Police look for parents of baby
WARSAW -- Police and the State Bureau of Investigations officials are looking for the mother of a newborn baby abandoned in a vacant house on Chelly Street in Warsaw. Officials are not sure how or when the baby boy died. His body was found Tuesday afternoon. Warsaw police Capt. Jerry Wood said the baby was alive at the time of birth. He added that the investigation revealed that the baby was not born in a medical facility. The body was sent to Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville for an autopsy. Officials hope to use the autopsy report and bloodwork to determine not only the child's cause of death, but whether he is Hispanic or Caucasian. Results are due back from the state medical examiner in eight to 10 weeks, hospital officials said.
Walter Chinn: 1914 - 2007: Grandchildren will miss former owner of ...
Walter Chinn once owned the China Cab Co. in Chinatown, served as a chef at the downtown Trader Vic's and worked for The Boeing Co. in its tool shop. The Beacon Hill resident, though, was a big kid at heart. He loved digging for geoducks and taking his grandchildren to Lake Washington to feed the ducks. Chinn, 92, died on Jan. 22 at Swedish Medical Center from pneumonia and other complications, following a September 2005 stroke, his family said Monday. "He was a very generous man," said Wes Chinn, his 39-year-old grandson, who lives in Seattle. "He made us feel like we were the most important person even though he had 12 grandkids and nine great-grandkids." After he dug up geoducks, he relaxed in his garage and talked with friends, said Phyllis Wong, his 65-year-old daughter.
Denial of job for beard legal, but hardly just
Q: My husband, an excellent and experienced preschool teacher - he is the best at what he does - applied for a job at a local public school. The interview went great. The principal was impressed by his résumé, recommendations and abilities, but feared that his beard would alienate community parents. Would he shave it? He politely declined. She said she would not hire him unless he did. Legal? Ethical? - Name Withheld, Georgia A: I've no doubt that despite being his wife, you provide an unbiased account of your husband's merits, but sadly his whiskers do not define a legally protected class in regard to job discrimination - as do sex, age and race, for example. (A beard worn as a religious obligation could enjoy legal protection, but that's not the case here.) While the principal behaved legally, she acted unethically and unprofessionally by basing a hiring decision on your husband's facial foliage (if that is actually what she did).
RTA announces the interiors of Dubai Metro trains
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the details of the interior designs of the train compartments of Dubai Metro as the first phase of the manufacturing process will begin in February 2007 in Japan and the first train will be delivered by March 2008. .
New trail opens at San Elijo Lagoon
ENCINITAS ---- A new trail opened this week so that the disabled can use a popular location to watch birds and commune with nature.
View A VideoThe trail is part of a miles-long network in the 1,000-acre San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve between Encinitas and Solana Beach. It includes a raised boardwalk that is 500 feet long and that crosses a willow-filled area that often is flooded. The newest section of the network is part of a quarter-mile loop that begins and ends at the nature center parking lot on Manchester Avenue. The entire loop is flat and wide enough to comply with federal accessibility requirements for the handicapped. .
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