Ventura County Star from Ventura, California • 27

FC The Star A31 A trio of stories to enlighten inform and entertain News makers 2 Extraordinary 3 Oddly enough Quote never been poor only broke Being of the day poor is a frame of mind Being broke is only a temporary Mike Todd American movie producer (1907-1958) Three on Tuesday Dec 5 2006 governor is first woman to lead state Bruins win couched in furniture deal LOS ANGELES (AP) After seven straight losses over the years the UCLA Bruins desperately wanted a win against the cross-town rival Trojans from the USC dim Gov Sarah Palin Age: 42 bom in Sandpoint Idaho on Feb 1964 Education: Graduated from University of Idaho 1987 journalism Business: Worked as sports reporter for two television stations is coowner with her husband in commercial fishing operation also owned snow machine watercraft all-terrain vehicle business 1994-97 Political career: Chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2003-04 served two terms as Wasilla mayor and two terms on city council Family: Husband Todd and four children GOP primary and then handily defeated former two-term Gov Tbny Knowles a Democrat in the general election Palin is a Republican who has spent the last few years irritating state GOP leaders by blowing the whistle on the party chairman violations of state ethics laws then filing an ethics complaint together with a Democratic legislator against former Attorney General Gregg Renkes a longtime Murkowski aide Palin also appealed to Alaskans because of her status as a political outsider She described her profession the past few years as and occasional commercial fisherman That stood out against her opponents both political insiders: first Murkowski who was a US senator for 22 years before becoming governor then Knowles who was seeking a political comeback after being governor from 1994 to 2002 In both cases her opponents raised and spent more money than her campaign did It didn't matter AIMoAP Alaska Gov Sarah Palin left and Lt Gov Sean Parnell were sworn into office Monday Palin appealed to Alaskans because of her status as a political outsider anniversary of the ratification of the Alaska Constitution which was drafted in Fairbanks three years before statehood in 1959 my family our big family I love she said Tall cleaned up real well today I see a Carhartt In the she joked of the brand of heavy-duty work clothes fa Palin also is the youngest person to hold office ByMaryl The Associated Pnu FAIRBANKS Alaska -Sarah Palin was sworn into office Monday as ninth governor completing Jan unlikely journey for a relatively political unknown just months ago Palin took the oath shortly before noon with her husband Todd at her side The crowd began chanting Sarahl before Alaska musher and master of ceremonies Libby Riddles joked that the governor asked them to and Palin is the state's first female governor and at age 42 is also the youngest person to hold the office In addition she is the first not to be sworn in Juneau the state capital She chose Fairbanks for the ceremony to mark the 50th Criminals Pricey product is stolen from store shelves and resold By Usa Salt Lake TYitnme one of the most frequently shoplifted items from any store and not an iPod At $12 or more per can baby formula is an expensive and highly pilfered item that's flying off shelves and into the pockets of profiteers That stolen formula which is often improperly stored and therefore spoils could end up right back in stores and in your infant's bottle JV football game season With a new apartment to furnish 30-year-old football fen Jackie Stewart desperately wanted a new sofe In the most unlikely fashion they both got their wishes Betting that the underdog Bruins would somehow pull off an upset against the No 2-ranked Trojans Stewart accepted an offer from the HD Buttercup furniture store: Any customer who spends at leak $2000 in the store in the last few days before the big game will get his or her money back if the Bruins win VP of finance is a Trojan and he was going on and on about how USC was going to said Mila Becker- the director of public relations we got tired of hearing it and we told him to put his money where his mouth Hedid UCLA pulled off the seemingly impossible a 13-9 win on Saturday and on Sunday Stewart trucked home his free Italian leather sofe set His victory was almost as close as Not sure his alma mater could do it Stewart waited until seven minutes before kickoff to plunk down his money -And the price of his new sofe? he said see high profit low risk in baby formula Baby formula like razors over-the-counter medications and diabetes test strips is highly sought after by organized retail-theft rings that resell it on single day High-level fencing operations can move miliums of dollars worth of goods in a single week and the cut entries under with brands such as Enfamfl Nestle Good Start and Similac up for sale Still others will attempt to ed with other substances to make it stretch further "Olsen said is literally a health and safety for these infont Wal-Mart and Thrget villages Palin rose from relative obscurity she's a former mayor of the small town of Wasilla to win highest office She trounced incumbent Gov Frank Murkowski in the sell it via radio station or classified newspaper ads or to often discount or retail stores Biggs said Consumers face the risk of lost its nutritional value warns Jim Olsen executive vice president of the Utah Retail Merchants Association main fear is that these products do have a shelf life and do need to be handled correctly and in some cases (cans of baby formula) are repackaged or dilut the blade market "Ills just a crime that over part of the last decade has become more recognized by career criminals as a high-profit low-risk said Jerry Biggs of Illinois the national organized retail-crime division coordinator for 2 issue have joined Walgreens in creating oqpnized retail-theft units to combat a crime often overlooked by law enforcement Biggs said his unit will spend months even years piecing together cases that cross jurisdictional lines and involve large quantities of merchandise before forwarding them to police agencies sort of assist in putting that intelligence together in taking it to them (police) to warrant their he said vored by many Alaskans Lt Gov Sean Parnell also took the oath Monday and said he was committed to working with Palin to realize the vision of safe homes and streets for all Alaskans both by trying to end gang violence in the largest city and stemming the problems of youth suicide in the smallest can be lucrative Biggs said one man he busted pulled in $100000 a month All told retailers nationwide lose about $34 billion a year in merchandise to the crime rings Biggs said The loot from such operations authorities fear funds everything from drug use and production to terrorist groups As for formula some thieves will resell it on the street at flea markets and Internet auction sites such as eBay A recent search on the site 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