POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- Broward Sheriff's Office deputies rescued an emaciated pooch from a hot, locked vehicle in Pompano Beach on Wednesday morning after receiving an anonymous tip.

On Super Bowl Sunday its The Dips vs. The Spreads

On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams will go at it in home kitchens across America: The Dips vs. The Spreads.

Our money is on the spreads. Dips are so clingy at parties. Spreads have substance and character. The mixture doesn't just hang from the cracker or chip, it tackles it.

"Spreads have more backbone," says Debbie Moose, author of Fan Fare: A Playbook of Great Recipes for Tailgating or Watching the Game From Home (Harvard Common Press, $14.95). "They are thicker, so you can expect bolder flavors and textured ingredients."

Excerpts from editorials in Florida newspapers

The elderly man discovered in a DeLand nursing home with an infected breathing tube and maggots in his eyes. The 92-year-old man who leaped to his death from his Daytona Beach condominium, distraught over his wife's failing health. The children charged with beating a veteran, now homeless.

Less familiar but more common are the daily struggles that don't make headlines. The Volusia Council on Aging has a waiting list of seniors needing vital services like housekeeping and grocery shopping. Flagler County has capped its door-to-door bus service because it can't afford to service any more riders. A lack of affordable home health services might be sending local seniors into nursing facilities when they could remain in their homes - a problem that also affects people with disabilities who are under the age of 65.

North Beach to Build 'Green' Town Hall

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Scots do not want to end the Union, merely modify it

IT'S time. Time for a change. Time to move on. This is the last column from this writer which will appear in this position in this paper. A new and extremely challenging role on the business desk awaits.Sadly, it means no time for the glorious self-indulgence of expressing a weekly opinion on the affairs of the nation.The world of politics is a continuously fascinating one. There is always something new. Political parties take power and always, in the end, lose it. Politicians' fortunes ebb and flow. Plots and conspiracies abound. Policies evolve and change.Over time, the decisions made by our elected representatives really do "make a difference", a phrase politicians use frequently, to the lives of the poor, long-suffering voters whose interests they are supposed to represent. Politics matters.And having spent many years at both Westminster and Holyrood as a reporter – and worked, albeit for only a year, on the "dark side" as a special adviser to former First Minister Henry McLeish – politics had become like a drug.

2008 Natural Products Expo West Proves 'Organic' And 'Sustainability ...

Natural Products Expo West is set for more than 300,000 square feet of natural and organic foods and personal care, healthy ethnic, sustainable living and alternative medicine products, with more than 1800 exhibitors showcasing their offerings. The trade show, produced by New Hope Natural Media, a division of Penton Media, will draw more than 47,000 attendees March 13-16 to the Anaheim Convention Center in California.

Consumer interest in healthy products continues to grow. Natural products sales in the United States grew 9.7 percent across all retail and nonretail channels in 2006, topping more than $56.7 billion [up from $51 billion in 2005], according to The Natural Foods Merchandiser. For the first time since 1999, the mass market saw double-digit growth of natural products sales at 10.5 percent.

Did the GOP Alienate Hispanics?

I talk Hollywood right-wingers with the expressive and strangely compelling Rob Long. ... 1:24 P.M..

Sell your studio stock: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has hired Chris Lehane, according to Hollywood-writers-strike-must-read Nikki Finke. The producers' group apparently wants "to take a more aggressive approach in its public relations" (LAT's words).

Kempenfelt Community Players presents The Music Man

An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize - this despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall. With musical standards including "Seventy-Six Trombones", "Lida Rose", "Trouble" and "Marian, the Librarian" this show has been charming audiences since 1957. Director - Scott A.Hurst Musical Director - Edwina Douglas Tickets are $19 and will be going on sale mid December so keep your eyes and ears open. There will be both evening and matinee performances.

Diet helps keep children seizure-free

LAFAYETTE, Calif. Without hesitation, Cathy Holt can tell you how long it has been since Noah's latest seizure.The Lafayette, Calif., mother keeps a running total. Her blond, blue-eyed 4-year-old has been seizure-free for 40 weeks.That is a life-altering change for Noah, who had been averaging a seizure a week since he was 6 months old. The longest one lasted three hours. Many ended in a hospital emergency room.Noah tried state-of-the-art medications to control his epilepsy, without success.A low-tech approach transformed the boy's life a strict high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that defies all good-nutrition recommendations.Known as the ketogenic diet, it has been around since biblical times and has gone in and out of favor.Instead of fruits and vegetables, Noah's meals often include heavy cream, bacon and butter laced with cinnamon.Why and how the diet works remains a mystery.But Children's Hospital Oakland, Kaiser Permanente, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and other institutions have put scores of epileptic children on the diet, with varying degrees of success.Experts stress that the diet can have side effects and should be attempted only under strict medical supervision.

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Sure, sure, it's all been done before, but now I get to do it. Without further ado, here is my all-name team. 20 - Rod Smart - Who the Hell is Rod Smart you ask? Well he is none other than the fool who called himself "He Hate Me" and pretty much epitomized the debacle that was the XFL. 19. Elbert L. "Ickey" Woods - Running back his entire carreer for the Bengals. Hey, how many guys not named Humpty Hump have a dance named after them. The Ickey Shuffle remains high on the all time celebrations list. 18. "Chocolate Thunder" Darryl Dawkins - Perhaps more appropriate for wrestling or porn, but still has a nice ring to it. 17. "Pistol" Pete Maravich - LSU grad was a known practicioner of yoga, a part time ufologist, and could also play a little basketball. Died of a heart attack in 1988 at a young age.