Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low

CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they’re opposed to the agreement.

Citizens Sparked Dayworker Arrests, City Says

Orange city officials Monday defended the arrests last week of day laborers outside a Home Depot store, saying police need to respond to citizen complaints about loitering.

Although both immigrants rights advocates and foes of illegal immigrants agreed that the arrests were unusual, city officials said they were nothing new.

They said police had previously arrested day laborers for violating a municipal code that banned soliciting work outside.

“This is not a first and won’t be a last,” said Mayor Mark A. Murphy. “This is simply a situation where we responded to concerns in the community.”

Have you seen these runaways?

Two teenage girls linked to website

CALABASAS - The note Edie Beyer found on her kitchen counter was unsigned and missing the usual X’s and O’s that symbolize hugs and kisses.
“Mommy,” said the note, scrawled in her daughter’s handwriting. “I love you very much. Goodbye forever.”

Alexis Beyer wrote the note Feb. 15, the day sheriff’s deputies say the 13-year-old walked out the door of the Calabasas condominium she shares with her mother.