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CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus says that gender bias may play a role in the disappointing ratings Katie Couric has been getting on “CBS Evening News.”
“I think it is a fact there are probably people, both men and women, who are perhaps uncomfortable having a woman anchor the news,” McManus told the media industry publication Broadcasting & Cable.
An ill-fated squirrel wreaked havoc at the Allendale substation Friday, causing a major electrical power outage that affected 4,400 customers and three schools.
To complicate matters, schools had early dismissal and alternative schedules Friday because of teacher in-service. Dixie Bee Elementary and Honey Creek Middle School ended up serving cold lunches, including peanut butter sandwiches, because electrical power was not restored in time to prepare a hot lunch, said Superintendent Dan Tanoos.
Tanoos went to a Wonder Bread store to purchase bread and personally delivered some to Honey Creek School to ensure there was enough to feed students. Another employee took bread to Dixie Bee.
At each school, assembly lines of cafeteria workers quickly prepared sandwiches to feed students before they went home.
The outage also affected Terre Haute South Vigo High School, but power was restored there in time to prepare the regular lunch, Tanoos said.
“It was not a normal situation, but staff all kicked in to do their job,” Tanoos said.
The outage began shortly before 10 a.m. and affected 4,400 residents, businesses and schools. It included South Vigo High School and extended south to Youngstown subdivision across from Ivy Tech, said Rick Burger, Duke Energy spokesman.
DOVER, OHIO — A squirrel caused a minor electrical power outage on E. 14th St. in Dover Tuesday afternoon.
Larry Lautzenheiser, assistant superintendent of the city’s Electric Field Division, said the squirrel caused a fuse to blow on a transformer at about 3:55 p.m.
A resident of the area reported to police that she heard a loud explosion, which Lautzenheiser said was the fuse blowing.
A crew replaced the fuse, and fewer than a dozen homes in the area were without power for about 30 minutes, Lautzenheiser said.
Sonora, CA — Believe it or not a squirrel has caused a power outage affecting some 330 P.G.& E. customers in the Phoneix Lake Rd, Bellview Oaks and Crystal Falls areas.
P.G.& E. Spokesperson Emily Barnett says crews are on the scene. Power is scheduled to be restored to approximately 250 customers within minutes. Power for the remaining 80 customers should be restored within two hours time.
A man was caught after he tried to make his way through Hong Kong airport with a crocodile, six snakes, 11 flying squirrels and 46 turtles and tortoises in his case.
He was planning to take the animals from Thailand to China. When asked what the contents of his case were, he innocently replied: “A packed lunch.”
MARLBOROUGH, MA - Approximately 100 Marlborough households were without power shortly before noon today after a squirrel grounded an electrical wire on Church Street, a National Grid spokeswoman said.
Approximately 3,500 National Grid customers lost power at 9 a.m. this morning, though most customers had their power restored by 9:40 a.m., and by 11:15 a.m. only 100 customers were still in the dark, said spokeswoman Amy Atwood.
Atwood said the squirrel climbed onto the electrical pole and, while still partly on the pole, touched the electrical wire, thus sending an electrical current through the squirrels’ body, onto the pole and down to the ground. The squirrel was found dead on the street.
“The electricity’s always trying to get back to the earth, and if you make the path work it will follow it,” said Marlborough Fire Capt. John McGrath.
That is why people and animals should never touch electrical wires, Atwood said.
“We have animal guard on the majority of our lines and we do everything we can to prevent it but (animals) still find ways,” she said.
The electrical wire caught on fire and broke, falling onto the lawn of a private homeowner on the corner of Church and Sawin streets, McGrath said.
“I’ve been going to every one since they started in Anderson,” Larry Moore says of the Grand American Hunt and Show. “And I’ve been squirrel hunting about 15 to 20 years. That squirrel hunting is like daylight coon hunting.”
A native of Piedmont, Moore has friends who call him “L.D.” Although he’s been hunting squirrels for 20 years, he’s been hunting other game even longer. All his life, if truth be known.
“I’ve been going to every one since they started in Anderson,” Larry Moore says of the Grand American Hunt and Show. “And I’ve been squirrel hunting about 15 to 20 years. That squirrel hunting is like daylight coon hunting.”
A native of Piedmont, Moore has friends who call him “L.D.” Although he’s been hunting squirrels for 20 years, he’s been hunting other game even longer. All his life, if truth be known.
