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A squirrel caught fire, sparking a blaze Wednesday morning that resulted in the evacuation of an elementary school in Jones, Okla., fire officials said.

NAMI Condemns Newspaper for Headline About Fire at Psychiatric Hospital ARLINGTON, Va., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the nation's largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness, has expressed "shock and outrage" over a headline in The Trentonian newspaper in Trenton, NJ, for a July 10, 2002 story about a fire at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital-calling it one of the "worst examples of prejudice and discrimination toward people with mental illnesses in recent memory." The headline was "Roasted Nuts." Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the fire, but...

I apologize, (Roasted Nuts) headline was insensitiveJuly 11, 2002Column by Tony PersichilliAt the end of most things I write for this newspaper, I am identified as a columnist and copy editor.The columnist part is easy to understand.I write about things that I find interesting and that I think people who read this paper will find interesting too.Sometimes I'm right.Sometimes I'm wrong.The copy editor part is not as obvious.As a copy editor, I read the stories, correct misspellings, change datelines, insert local references, that sort of thing.I also write headlines.So, on Tuesday night, when the story about the fire at the...