Sunday Newscape Magazine

Atlanta, Georgia - Getting screened for some cancers can actually help prevent them from occurring. In particular, screening helps prevent cancers of the cervix, colon and rectum. Screening also helps find other cancers - such as breast cancer - at an early stage, when treatment can be most effective. Because some cancers are found early and treatment options have improved, more and more people are living many years after a diagnosis.

It’s been one of those weeks during which someone has violated just about all of my pet peeves. I like to think that I’m not a particularly peevish person. My list of pet peeves is very short and straightforward. It shouldn’t be that difficult to avoid committing these egregious errors.

I believe life is a learning process we all go through. Unfortunately, sometimes you hurt people along the way. These are true stories.

This first story comes from my early years as an ignorant teenager. I thought I met the girl of my dreams.

It was 75 years ago - September 26, 1933 - that wanted gangster George “Machine Gun” Kelly and three others were captured by Bureau agents and local police. That date might not have meant much to history except for the reporting that followed. As the legend goes, the surrounded and frightened Kelly shouted something like, “Don’t shoot, G-Men, don’t shoot!”

Los Angeles, California - “The Cure,” a short film by UCLA student Anthony Onah has been awarded first prize the AARP-UCLA Stolen Dreams film competition and will be featured as part of a nationwide initiative aimed at securing affordable health care and assuring financial security for all Americans.