5 Things: Drug Tests For Welfare?

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1. Your Weather Report: Today will be sunny with a high of 19 degrees.  Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 6 degrees. More clouds will come in as temperatures rise tomorrow.

2. Testing for welfare? State Reps. Donald LeBrun, R-Nashua, and Jeanine Notter, R-Merrimack, are proposing a law that would require applicants for federally funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to pass a drug test to receive benefits. The Department of Human Services would decide what drugs would disqualify applicants.

3. Spooky. A petrified forest is made up of tree trunks that were buried in mud, sand, or volcanic ash ages ago and have turned to stone. This action is caused by water that carries dissolved mineral matter.

4. Glasses sales will surely rise. A new report says that taking aspirin regularly may raise the risk with age-related vision loss.

5. Congrats! Samantha Minshull of Milford, who is studying history at Widener University in Chester, Pa., was named to the Dean's List for the fall 2012 semester at Widener. The Dean's List recognizes full-time students who earned a grade point average of 3.50 and above for the semester.