Tuesday, August 18, 2009

8am Headlines


The first hurricane of the Atlantic season loomed far out in the ocean Tuesday, gaining power and moving on a track that forecasters said could take it close to Bermuda by the end of the week.

Hurricane Bill was expected to become a major storm in the next couple of days, with winds topping 110 mph


With the upcoming fall semester, college students will be able to take advantage of an additional location for Richard Stockton College.

For the Fall 2009 Semester, Stockton is offering three undergraduate courses at Saint Joseph's High School in downtown Hammonton.

The night courses are available to undergraduate students enrolled at Stockton, but are also available to the public on a per-credit basis.


In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.

Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.



A woman is pregnant with a record-breaking 12 babies, the Sun reported Monday.

The teacher, who has not yet been named, is expecting six boys and six girls, according to reports. She conceived the babies following fertility treatments, after suffering a number of miscarriages.

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