■ United States
Boy shoots girl
An eight-year-old boy accidentally shot a seven-year-old girl in the arm on Tuesday with a handgun he pulled from his backpack at a day-care center, police in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, said. The wounded girl was flown to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, police spokesperson Lucille Baur said. There were six children at the For Kids We Care day-care center at the time the shooting and no one else was injured, she said. The shooting happened just before 7am as the boy was handling the gun, which he brought to the center in his backpack, Baur said.
■ United States
Paper empowers readers
Wisconsin's second-largest newspaper is letting readers help decide what to put on the front page. In an experiment designed to boost reader interest, the Wisconsin State Journal allows readers to go on its Web site every weekday from 11am to 4pm and vote for their favorite out of five story ideas. Barring late-breaking news, the winning story typically will appear on page one the next day. Tuesday's front page included the first "reader's choice," a look at Ford's plant closings and job cuts.
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