■ UNITED STATES
`Deadbeats' put on pizza
The search for "deadbeat" parents now has a delivery option: three pizzerias in Cincinnati, Ohio, have put wanted posters on their pizza boxes to help catch parents who don't pay their child support. Each box of pizza is plastered with a poster with 10 names, photos and last known addresses of parents who are not paying court-ordered support, along with a toll-free number that pizza-eaters can call to report the deadbeat parent. Cynthia Brown, head of the Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency, said she came up with the idea after she ordered pizza one night and noticed coupons taped to the box.
■ UNITED STATES
`Life' magazine killed off
The owners of Life magazine, which practically invented photojournalism, killed off their publication for the third and possibly final time on Monday. Time Inc, which publishes Life, blamed the closure on "the decline in the newspaper business" and poor advertising predictions. When the publisher took over Life in 1936, it turned it into the premier forum for photojournalism. At its height, it sold more than 13 million, and provided a showcase for some of the best photojournalists of the day. After years of decline, Time Inc. ended Life's run as a weekly in 1972, after which it appeared intermittently until 1978.
■ Guatemala
Berger accepts resignations
President Oscar Berger accepted the resignation of the country's police chief and interior minister on Monday in Guatemala City after eight murders raised fears that senior officials were linked to drug gangs. Three Salvadoran politicians and their driver were murdered in the country on Feb. 19. Days later, four police detectives who were arrested for the murders were shot in prison. Opposition politicians say the events show corrupt police are working with death squads in return for protection from drug gangs. A government investigation of the murders is underway. Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann and the national head of police, Erwin Sperisen, tendered their resignations this month.
■ Guatemala
Boat captain meets judge
The captain of a custom, biodiesel-fueled powerboat trying to set a speed record for circling the globe met with a Guatemalan judge in Guatemala City on Monday over a recent collision with a fishing skiff that left a fisherman missing. Peter Bethune, captain of the 78-foot trimaran, said the meeting went well and he hoped to continue on his voyage later this week, although the delay cost them a week in their bid to break the world circumnavigation record of 75 days. "We met briefly, and there is another meeting scheduled for tomorrow. We are getting finished tomorrow, but it's not for sure," Bethune said. "It is going to be very hard to get the world record now."
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