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By ALEXIS FITTS -- The cover of a recent OK! magazine features new mom Jamie Lynn Spears holding her newborn daughter, Maddie. With highlighted hair and rosy cheeks, the 17-year-old actress is smiling, while Maddie, clenching her tiny, balled-up fists out from underneath a bundle of white swaddling, sleeps peacefully in Jamie Lynn's arms. "Being a mom is the best feeling in the world!" Jamie Lynn tells the magazine. She makes motherhood sound idyllic, but if there are teenage girls who...

LEGACY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC. (OTCBB: LTHO) - (formerly known as Life USA, Inc.), announced that it has completed it reverse merger, effective August 5, 2008. As of June 17, 2008, Legacy entered into a Agreement and Plan of Merger under which Legacy would acquire World Peace Technologies, Inc. in exchange for 9,000,000 shares of Legacy's common stock. The Agreement was amended slightly on July 28, 2008 to provide that World Peace will remain an operating subsidiary of Legacy. World...

By DAVE PHILIPPS, Hidden in a grassy basin on the eastern plains, the Paint Mines is a trove of whimsical hoodoos made from bright, sherbetcolored stone. For generations, this geologic oddity on the plains has drawn people to it. Archaeological evidence suggests that paleolithic hunters camped in the area during thousands of years, using the regional clay to make crude cooking vessels. In modern times, it has been an engaging day trip for city dwellers. Trails created in the past few years...

By The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Aug. 4--EARLY VOTING RESUMES Early voting for the Aug. 12 primary election continues today through Friday after a slow start Saturday. Registered voters may cast ballots at the following locations: --Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. --The Citadel mall, Suite 3124 on the upper level near J.C. Penney, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. --Chapel Hills Mall, Suite 179 on the lower level near the food court escalator, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. For...

By Brian Newsome, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Aug. 4--On Friday, Penrose-St. Francis Health System will join a growing list of hospitals that have gone or are going tobacco free. To ease the pain, the Colorado Springs hospital system is providing several incentives for people who want to quit. The new anti-tobacco policy, similar to a policy that went into effect Jan. 1. at Memorial Health System, means no smoking or using smokeless tobacco anywhere on Penrose properties, even...

By Alexis Fitts, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jul. 30--Commuters aren't the only ones feeling the oil crunch. Rural school districts in the Pikes Peak region are cutting back on supplies and renovation projects, taking energysaving measures, revamping school schedules and scrutinizing their sports teams' transportation schedules, all with one purpose: to make sure there's enough money in their budgets to pay for diesel for their buses. School buses are the lifelines of rural...

By Pam Zubeck, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jul. 29--With temperatures soaring into the 90s this week, air conditioners are placing a bigger demand on the city's power supply. Colorado Springs Utilities officials said today that the summer heat could translate to a record peak load on Thursday when highs will hit the mid to upper 90s. The previous peak -- 863 megawatts -- came on Aug. 21 last year. Last Thursday, usage surged to 849 megawatts, but afternoon clouds stifled usage...

By BARRY NOREEN Manitou Springs, eclectic home to covens, a cog railway and the fruitcake toss, must have a lot going for it. How else could we explain why one-third of the 1,350 students in Manitou Springs School District 14 live in another school district, yet their parents choose to send them there? The percentage is higher at Manitou Springs High School, where 40 percent of the student body resides elsewhere. "The school is really embedded in the community," said Roy Crawford,...

By Andrea Brown, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jul. 27--Wearing masks and gloves and wielding cans of red spray paint, about 25 teens took to the streets Saturday. Darting into manicured subdivisions, they jumped out of vans, laughing as they brazenly used a stencil to leave behind a permanent freaky fish figure and message on sidewalks. By the time it was over, DUMP NO WASTE -- DRAINS TO STREAM was sprayed over about 150 storm drains. "I try to aim big," said 15-year-old...

By David Ramsey, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jul. 27--COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. --Goose Gossage can barely sleep. He lives in a state of emotional chaos as he prepares to join his heroes at the Baseball Hall of Fame. On Friday night, Gossage endured a long nightmare. He dreamed he had lost his best suit, forcing him to deliver his acceptance speech in tattered sweats that had writing all over them. He stood there, in front of the baseball nation, looking like a bum. Then he awoke,...