Former Olympic track star gets 5 years for heroin

Disgraced former Olympic track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.

"I was blind _ I never had a job in my life," Montgomery told U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman. "I did the wrong thing."

Montgomery, 33, will serve the five-year sentence after he completes a 46-month prison term for an unrelated conviction in New York.

Under an agreement with the government, he pleaded guilty in July to possession and distribution of more than 100 grams of heroin. He received the minimum term under federal sentencing …

Fast food owner on Vietnam ride

THE owner of Carmarthen's McDonald's has headed off on agruelling charity cycle ride to Vietnam.

Ron Mounsey, who lives in Peniel, will be covering 60 miles a dayfor eight days as he travels from Hanoi up as far as the Chineseborder.

Before he left on Saturday, the 56-year-old said he was lookingforward to the trip, but added: "There are some quite large hills tocover so it's quite daunting."

Mr Mounsey owns nine McDonald's franchises in west Wales,including on Swansea's Fabian Way. He will be …

Lifesaving Mission Ends With 6 Dead

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice. The plane never made it, crashing into the lake's choppy waters and killing all six people aboard Monday.

Now the critically ill patient could become the accident's seventh fatality.

"It was a very sad moment in the operating room" when word was received that the plane had gone down on its way from Milwaukee, said Dr. Jeffrey Punch, chief of transplant surgery at the University of Michigan Health System hospital in Ann Arbor.

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National League Leaders

BATTING_Beltran, New York, .374; Votto, Cincinnati, .374; Zimmerman, Washington, .364; HaRamirez, Florida, .357; MRamirez, Los Angeles, .348; Hudson, Los Angeles, .343; Helton, Colorado, .343.

RUNS_Pujols, St. Louis, 33; ASoriano, Chicago, 29; Hudson, Los Angeles, 27; Werth, Philadelphia, 27; Zimmerman, Washington, 27; Hart, Milwaukee, 26; Weeks, Milwaukee, 25.

RBI_Pujols, St. Louis, 34; Cantu, Florida, 32; Fielder, Milwaukee, 29; Braun, Milwaukee, 28; Dunn, Washington, 28; BMolina, San Francisco, 28; Ethier, Los Angeles, 27.

HITS_Zimmerman, Washington, 51; Hudson, Los Angeles, 47; Beltran, New York, 46; FLopez, Arizona, 43; HaRamirez, Florida, …

Some questions need not daunt: ; Unfortunately, legislators are ordinary people

IN a January Charleston Gazette column, Tom Miller volunteered apuzzling defense of West Virginia legislators, picturing them aswell-meaning men and women who must face daunting questions. Miller,who also has reprimanded critics of early pension-vesting strategyon the state Supreme Court, offered this example of a dauntingquestion: whether to support the death penalty. If I were alegislator, I would have no trouble with that one. If I favored thedeath penalty, I would support it. If I didn't, I wouldn't.

A better example might have been how to avoid giving offense tosnuff users. But the example Miller provided was sufficient todisfigure his thesis.

To restate it, a …

Our Tool for the Times/Un outil pour notre temps

You've heard it in the news, you've received it in the mail, you've seen the website and participated in a webcast - Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (2007) has finally arrived with a flourish.

In this issue of the Journal (p. 92), Mary Bush and her colleagues at Health Canada's Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion discuss the evolution of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide: the review process, the creation and subsequent disbandment of the draft 2004 Nutrition Recommendations for Canadians, followed by the development of the Dietary Reference Intake Summary Report and ultimately the stakeholder consultation leading to the final revisions of the new Food Guide. As Mary …

UN States Lag on Iran Sanctions Reports

Less than half of the United Nations' member states have filed mandatory reports on how they are complying with sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, the monitoring committee's chairman said Thursday.

Belgian Ambassador Johan Verbeke told the Security Council that just 88 of the 192 nations have reported on compliance with the initial sanctions imposed Dec. 23, 2006, and only 72 on observance of a second round imposed March 24, 2007.

The council imposed a third round of sanctions March 3 to step up pressure on Iran to stop enrichment.

Deputy U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff urged all countries to submit the reports …