The key is cooperation between all law enforcement agencies, said David Huber, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.Bomb threats at the University of Louisville immediately after the Virginia Tech University shootings last spring were a good example. The University of Louisville Police Department teamed with the FBI to make an arrest within 24 hours, he said.Schools are places where people congregate, just like malls, airports and subways, Huber said."Local agencies will be the ones who first come into contact with those who want to harm your community or pass through your community to do harm elsewhere," he said."We need to be aware of what might happen and be prepared for things that might happen," he said.School shootings are rare, but they are a significant part of school violence, said Paul Johnson, special agent in charge of the Louisville office of the U.S.

THE FITNESS DIARIES: Love the workout, hate some of the moves

My co-worker Heather Shelton is also a regular at HealthSport's thrice weekly strength-training class. It's the build-muscle, increase-metabolism group. Almost always made up of women.

Our favorite exercise of late, however, is the post-session review of all the torture we've just undergone. Here's a sample:

Jessie: I hated her/him today, particularly that bicycle crunch. God almighty that was awful. I was dying.

Heather: Yeah, I was having a hard time with that stupid wood-chopping thing.

This will go on for a few minutes as we discuss the different types of "torture," sometimes resorting to reliving the agony by demonstrating the pile squat, the lateral jumpy things and the hamstring h-e-double hockey sticks.

Occasionally, after running through nearly all of the session, we then try to find something we like.

Mountain Bike Pioneer Leaves Imprint

CUPERTINO, CAPerhaps no one knew mountain biking pioneer John Finley Scott better than longtime friend Vance Sprock. Sprock, current owner of the Cupertino Bike Shop in Northern California, met its previous owner Scott for the first time in 1974. Scott was serving as chairman of the Davis Double Century. I was a young 16-year-old and soon-to-be budding cyclist, Sprock said. When I registered for that event, I recall reading this beautifully crafted route description. I wondered about who had written this entertaining, witty and insightful guide. Thus was the beginning of a lifelong friendship, cut short last year when convicted felon Charles Kevin Cunningham murdered Scott. Cunningham was sentenced in early December to 31 years, four months to life for Scotts death. Scott was 72 years old.

American Sell-Outs Take Chavez Blood Money

The more I see, the more I realize that almost no one really cares about right and wrong. They care about money and supporting anyone who opposes George W. Bush."

Over a coffee last week with a high-level official of our government, that was the comment made to me regarding the Hugo Chavez-Citgo-Joe Kennedy II propaganda campaign now running across our nation. In TV commercials and in full-page print advertising, former Rep. Joe Kennedy thanks "our good friends in Venezuela" for helping to heat America's poor.

Other than to accept blood money, the government official I spoke with was at a loss to understand why some in the American media would run ads by a thug who exploits and ignores the poor in his nation, creates fear in the region and is, as a major newspaper just described him, an ally to terrorists, drug traffickers and mass murderers.

Bicyclist Killed on Highway 92

Funeral arrangements are being made tonight for a St Martin Parish man killed while riding his bicycle this morning.

Filed under: NFL

-The worst month for sports is what were going through right now. The NBA is hitting the mid-season and there is yet to be any real excitement. You have the NFL that just got over a month ago, and yes, we're all sad because that marks the end of football for another 6-7 months. College Football recruiting is always fun, but we all know that in a sense it is just a waiting game that is boring. We have College Basketball hitting conference schedules real hard which is truely fun to watch, but we then enter the conference tournaments and they mean nothing. MLB isen't even heard of in this month, and NASCAR has qualifying on the week before Daytona. Isen't that just interesting. The month of February is a complete let-down. This month is almost worthless in the world of sports. I mean, the NBA season may be shaping up, but there is another 40 games to be played.

Claims about climate change rebutted

CAFE standards literally saved the American auto industry from itself. They were producing gas-guzzling lemons in the 1970s. When the Arab oil barons decided to insert the reamer up America's collective kazoo, Americans turned to Japanese-built cars that got better gas mileage. CAFE standards forced our automakers to build a better product and made them viable again. Then they circumvented the CAFE standards by selling light trucks as passenger cars or sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Judging from their sales trends, it's only a matter of time before they come crawling again, hat in hand.

Global warming deniers refuse to face these facts because of gluttony, greed, fear, and stupidity.