Par 3 contest on TV.
Byline: Jack Gale COLUMN: MASTERS DIARY Yesterday at the Masters Today's par 3 contest will be televised for the first time (3 p.m. ESPN). Children are being admitted free of charge accompanied by a ticketed adult. ... Yesterday's galleries included Tiger with the...

US honors slain Fil-Am Army sergeant.
Byline: Charissa M. Luci The United States government posthumously cited recently the Filipino-American sergeant who was killed in action while serving in Iraq with the US Army. Washington provided full military burial honors to US Army Sergeant Reno S. Lacerna, 45, who served with the...

Company Watch - Atlanta Airport.
Mar 17, 2008 TSA will start training bomb-sniffing dogs at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport next week. The training program is part of an effort to improve cargo screening on passenger planes. "One of the overall strategies at TSA is to be more flexible, more mobile. We have...

Nothing to worry about; Rondo outplays Bibby in first game.
Byline: Bill Doyle BOSTON - You can stop worrying if second-year point guard Rajon Rondo is up to the task of playing well in the playoffs. Rondo thoroughly outplayed veteran Atlanta point guard Mike Bibby last night as the Celtics opened their first-round NBA playoff...

Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place.
Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place Sudye Cauthen University of Georgia Press 330 Research Drive, Athens, GA 30602-4901 19300066589, $29.95 www.ugapress.org Sudye Cauthen is a fifth-generation Floridian who blends memoir, oral history and cultural geography to consider the...

Super Tuesday had no big wins.
Byline: Beth Day Romulo The only surprise about the 24-state super Tuesday US primaries was that Republican Mike Huckabee proved he belongs in the race after all. Political analysts had prophesied two candidates each: Clinton and Obama for the Democrats; McCain and Romney for the...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Vivian Blixt A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at First Baptist Church in Eugene for Vivian E. Blixt of Eugene, who died Feb. 26 of cancer at age 81. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 4...

Former president Jimmy Carter's "Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant" was launched in Atlanta, with thousands of folks showing up, including the leaders of the four major black Baptist conventions and former president Bill Clinton, along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore.
Former president Jimmy Carter's "Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant" was launched in Atlanta, with thousands of folks showing up, including the leaders of the four major black Baptist conventions and former president Bill Clinton, along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore. (The connection between global warming and...

Nutrition by the Numbers.
Nutrition by the Numbers Christopher E. Ramsden, MD Applied Nutritional Biochemistry 1136 Bellewood Square, Atlanta, GA 30338-4047 9780979651502, $18.95 www.nql.com Nutritional biochemistry is here provided in a language any lay reader can understand as it covers the NQI food...

Evelyn J. Skiffington.
WEST BROOKFIELD Evelyn J. Skiffington, 84, of High St., died Thursday, March 13, 2008 in Mary Lane Hospital in Ware. She leaves one sister, Marie Skiffington of West Brookfield; her brother-in-law, Oscar Martin of Amelia Island, FL; her niece, Susan Martin of Atlanta, GA and her nephew,...