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Lost Planet Multiplayer Demo Arrives Tomorrow on Xbox Live

Gather your Xbox Live gaming friends for a Thanksgiving Day frag feast. Capcom's eagerly anticipated "Lost Planet: Extreme Condition" Multiplayer Demo for the Xbox 360 will be available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow, November 23rd. The demo will take place in the "Pirate Fortress" stage with support for up to 16 players.

In contrast to the traditional "Black Friday" shopping madness after Thanksgiving, a "White Friday" preorder offer has been declared by Capcom, in which retailers will reward "advanced purchasers with access to a special version of the demo that will contain an additional multiplayer map."

Capcom will also be releasing a cinematic trailer of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition in theatres soon (mid-November). Watch a video of a multiplayer clip below! Visit the official Lost Planet: Extreme Condition web site here.

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Kane reports big increase in salmonella

The Kane County Health Department is reporting a rise in food poisoning cases.

Health officials said the county usually sees an average of four cases of salmonella poisoning a year but already has recorded 21 cases so far in 2006.

Salmonella bacteria of all types cause much of the food poisoning in the world, including an estimated 4 million cases in the United States each year, health officials said. In Illinois, 1,500 to 2,500 cases of the foodborne illness are reported each year.

Salmonella poisoning can be associated with meats, poultry, dairy products, fruits and vegetables. People are more likely to contract salmonella poisoning at home than in a restaurant or from the grocery store, health officials said.

The Health Department has issued advice on handling food safely:

• Hands should be washed thoroughly before and after handling food.

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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY / Sex predator to return to mental hospital

Convicted sex predator Cary Verse, detained by police last month for allegedly violating terms of his parole when he drove a teenage boy in his car, will be released from jail and sent back to a state mental hospital until a court decides his fate next month.

The arrangement was agreed to Friday by his attorneys and state prosecutors, and approved by a judge.

Verse, 36, was released from Atascadero State Mental Hospital in 2004, and was met with protests when he tried to settle in the Bay Area. He finally found a home in the eastern Contra Costa County community of Bay Point.

Under terms of his parole, he is not allowed to have male passengers in his car without prior approval from authorities. On Nov. 18, police in Walnut Creek stopped Verse for driving with a broken taillight and found him with a 14-year-old boy in his car.

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Lady Indians Advance to Finals of Contra Costa Classic

BERKELEY, Calif. (12-2-2006) - Seniors Adrianne Davie and Rudy Sims combined for 53 points to lift the Arkansas State Lady Indians (5-3) to a 90-71 win over San Jose State (0-7) Saturday night in the California Contra Costa Times Classic at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif.

Davie finished the night with 28 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Sims finished with a season high 25 points, five rebounds and a season high four steals. Ashley Anderson also finished in double figures for ASU, netting 10 points on the night. ASU's 90 points were another season-high for the Lady Indians, eclipsing an 87-point effort against Arkansas Pine Bluff Nov. 26.

"We did enough good things to get the win, but we didn't play with a lot of discipline," said ASU head coach Brian Boyer. "Probably some of that was fighting off fatigue from the travel.

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Q&A With Iraq Study Group's David Abshire

David Abshire knows something about troubled presidencies. Not only does he head the Center for the Study of the Presidency; he was also a special counselor to President Reagan during the Iran-contra scandal. It seemed only natural, then, that he was on the congressional speed dial last November when the Iraq Study Group (otherwise known as the Baker-Hamilton commission) was organized. Abshire spoke with U.S. News about the pitfalls and potential of government commissions when facts on the ground are changing fast.

How is the ISG different from other commissions?

The biggest difference between the Baker-Hamilton commission and the Tower board, which investigated Iran-contra, for example, is that President Reagan had the courage to look back and examine flawed processes that led to flawed results.

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Under US-Mexico border, a squalid life for tunnel refugees

NOGALES, Mexico -- One mile deep into the drafty tunnel under this hilly frontier city, a flashlight beam cuts through the darkness and illuminates a yellow line painted on the concrete wall: the US-Mexico border.

Just beyond the boundary a graffiti message believed to have been scrawled by US law enforcement warns intruders: "USA Tunnel Rats. Este lugar es de nosotros" -- This place is ours.

Not exactly.

Inside the largest-known tunnels on the border -- two passages that make up an enormous drainage system linking Nogales, Mexico, with Nogales, Ariz. -- migrants stumble blindly through toxic puddles and duck bats. Methamphetamine-addicted assailants lurk. And young men working as drug mules lug burlap sacks filled with contraband.

There are shootouts and rapes.

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