The uncle of the U.S. soldier abducted in Baghdad last month said his nephew is believed to have been kidnapped by breakaway elements of a notorious Shiite militia.

Is it mere happenstance that Henry Gale, the great and powerful leader of the Others, shares the name of Dorothy's uncle from "The Wizard of Oz"

Myrna was born just two weeks before I was, and we were second cousins. When she was six months old, her mother Teresa died suddenly. Her father Isaac married Teresa's younger, 16 year old sister, Cornelia, or Nellie. But Nellie didn't think she could handle the baby and the five older siblings, so they gave Myrna to my Aunt Mary and Uncle Henry Wiebe, who had no children. Now she was my first cousin. I think Myrna and I first met when we were about two, and they came all the way from British Columbia (B.C.) on the west coast of Canada, to visit us in the village of Chortitz on the flat prairies of Saskatchewan, about the time we were age three. Both of us have a copy of a small black and white photo where the two of us are standing side by side in front of Grandma's carragana hedge. We look a lot alike. So much so, that when I was a school girl already, I would take our family album to Mom, and say, "Which one is me, again " ....MORE

A 19 year-old is in jail, accused of bringing two knives to a Campbell County school Thursday morning and demanding to speak to a student.Comment

The skinny: Max Skinner is a ruthless, self-centred, money-and- power-hungry stock market trader who inherits a Provence vineyard and chateau when his estranged Uncle Henry dies.Comment

An undercover survey by trading standards officers has found more than one in three Wiltshire traders sold knives to underage teenagers.

Gov. Sonny Perdue will make another appearance in Henry County, this time speaking at the Henry Council for Quality Growth's monthly luncheon on Wednesday.Comme nt