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Daily News Digest

Monday, December 24, 2007

Santa and Lacey Fire District get holiday spirit to families who need it
Santa arrived early for 21 Lacey families Sunday.

Cleanup costs delay parking plans
The Olympia City Council will not meet its goal to buy land for a downtown parking garage by the end of the year.

Credit card bills pile up
SAN FRANCISCO - Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults increasing by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.

Centralia families pull together after losses
CENTRALIA - For Ray and Dorothy Due of Lewis County, 2007 began with Ray losing his job at the TransAlta coal mine and ended with Dorothy losing her business to a record flood.

Sales bring more than smiles to South Sound shoppers
On one of the biggest shopping days of the year, thousands of shoppers filled South Sound stores and malls Saturday in search of last-minute gifts.

South Sound

Museum class helps students witness the art within science
Kids in teacher Pam Sinclair's "Colorful Chemistry" class at the Hands On Children's Museum were waiting for a reason to squeal Friday morning.

Freight rail likely to expand
Floods closed the major railroad running near Interstate 5 earlier this month, but for only half the time the road was shut down.

Flashlight near bed handy during earthquakes
You can get started on preparing your family for a disaster by using this weekly to-do list.

Sports

Hawks the better birds
"You want to go in as high a possible seed as you can. The other two are locked up (by No. 1 Dallas and No. 2 Green Bay), so third's the best (available). We were playing for that, and we got it."

Broncos feeling blue
HONOLULU - All Chris Johnson could think about after his record-setting night was how let his team down.

Low nets 20 as WSU cruises
Low scores 20 as No. 7 Washington State coasts to 75-45 win

Business

Real estate sales down 12 percent through month
This was a healthy year for South Sound real estate sales though sales through November were down about 12 percent compared with 2006, according to Northwest Multiple Listing Service data for Thurston County.

Living

Networks ease way for cancer patients
As Bobbi Illing and Sheri Zimny will tell you, a cancer diagnosis puts your life in a tailspin. The last thing you are thinking about is whether to make an appointment for a massage or where to go to take a yoga class.

Outdoors

Sea ice crucial to walrus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As federal marine mammal experts in Alaska scramble to study how global warming will affect walruses, polar bears and ice seals, they warn there are limits to the protections they can provide.

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