Teen loses fingertip to bullet in accident
Record-Courier - An 18-year-old Gardnerville resident lost the tip of his left ring finger after a friend shot him with a .45-caliber handgun he thought was unloaded. Andrew Vecchione was taken by Care Flight to Renown Medical Center in Reno following the incident

Fund will help familyof accident victim, 11
Louisville Courier-Journal - A memorial fund has been set up for the family of 11-year-old Carlos Robertson, who was killed when he was struck by a car while on his bicycle on Witherspoon Street on Friday. Donations to the Carlos Robertson Memorial Fund can be made at any PNC

Iraqi lawmaker resigns; blasts kill 21
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Relatives and patients wait at the Yarmouk hospital, after an indefinite strike called by the doctors at the hospital, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2006. Doctors of Yarmouk hospital went on an indefinite strike, after Iraqi police commandos