Kids' NEWSTIME—A sampler of America's children's daily newspaper first published in the early 1990's and restarted on November 4,1995!  Kids, how many newspapers can you read a day?.......This is today's final edition: VOLUME XI.......................NUMBER 29……….......MARCH 9,2010 * News...Alabama Governor Bob Riley recognizes the contributions of such organizations as the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Alabama Historical Commission, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, and Your Town Alabama, as he announces the state's "Year of Small Towns and Downtowns," a program to increase vacationing in Alabama during 2010 by displaying new historic markers in 200+ towns and cities and by hosting special home-coming events welcoming back to the state former residents and inviting first-time visitors. * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 5.185+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the hotel chain, 7 Days Group Holdings Limited decreasing 10.28 percent in value, more than shares of any other company. * Sports...The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press, that, with the defending champ Michael Bradley, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico hosts one of the next two scheduled PGA tournaments, from March 11-14,2010, while, with Phil Mickelson the defending champion, Miami, Florida hosts the other PGA tournament, competition heating up during March 11-14.

* Weather...The National Weather Service has received reports of hail, so far today, in Mississippi's Simpson, Lauderdale and Newton Counties and in Louisiana's St. Mary Parish. Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today were of magnitude 5.7 in the Northern Hemisphere (52 miles southeast of Atka, Alaska) and 5.2 in Southeast Asia (30 miles east of Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines). (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history...45 years ago: March 9,1965—The U.S. begins a second day of landing its first combat units in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, and reinforces the American military base at Da Nang.

* A Quotation worth remembering...by Thomas Jefferson (3RD U.S. President): "...did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me, that in the high authorities provided by our Constitution, I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties." (First Inaugural Address, 1801) high authorities=high public offices; virtue=honesty and good moral character; zeal=enthusiastic commitment.