Kidnapping at church puzzles police (The Kansas City Star)
Kansas City police are trying to untangle the dramatic and brief kidnapping of a 3-year-old snatched right in front of her parents in a church parking lot Sunday morning.
Some readers find puzzles more than just a diversion (Desert Dispatch Online)
If you dont use it, you lose it. …If you dont challenge your intellect, its going to go away. Jim Willis, Celebrity Cipher fan I like to have my cup of coffee, read my paper, and then I do the celebrity cipher and the crossword, and Im ready to start my day.
County bond project selection puzzles Frisco officials (The Frisco Enterprise)
City of Frisco officials are scratching their heads over the proposed distribution of funds from the Denton County bond election, which will be up for a vote on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
The Buzz: McCain clueless? (The Kansas City Star)
More proof The New York Times is in the tank for Barack Obama? Politico finds his five-letter, vowel-rich name has been an answer in three Times crossword puzzles.
WichiTalk changes begin today (The Wichita Eagle)
WichiTalk has a new home in The Eagle. Look inside the Local & State section, beginning on Page 4, to find WichiTalk in full-size broadsheet pages. You'll also find the comics and puzzles on Pages 6 and 7 and the celebrity news column on Page 4. Also beginning today, we'll no longer publish daily TV channel listings. For TV information, you'll find our best bets highlights on Page 7. We …
Canada PM Oil Sands Plan Puzzles Industry, Greens (Planet Ark)
CALGARY, Alberta - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday he would ban exports of tar-like bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to countries that do not match Canadian efforts to cut carbon emissions, a campaign promise that perplexed both the oil industry and environmentalists.
German company claims puzzle is world's biggest (AP via Yahoo! News)
Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.
Professor Layton Games Gets Animated Film Project (Anime News Network)
The game developer Level5 announced at its Level5 Vision 2008 event on Friday that it has green-lit a theatrical anime project for its popular Professor Layton puzzle games. In each game, the title character solves a central mystery through a series of puzzles in a fantasy setting.
Before the big bang? (EurekAlert!)
( Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ) Sir Roger Penrose, prominent lecturer and author, as well as highly distinguished mathematician and theoretical physicist, will give Perimeter Institute's next public lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Groundbreaking findings on autism to be presented at Carnegie Mellon international symposium (EurekAlert!)
Today's autism research draws on a variety of scientific disciplines, from genetics to functional magnetic resonance imaging to neural development. At the 35th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, "Development and Brain Systems in Autism," 16 of the world's most prominent autism researchers will present their latest groundbreaking findings on the disorder and discuss the direction of future study …