Bite Size News, July 15: Good Deed Edition

Picture from flickr user Lorianne DiSabato is available for download under a Creative Commons license . In 2004, Joan Kroc donated $1.5 billion of her McDonald’s Corp. cash to the United Way. In 2009, $80 million of that is going to help build the Kroc Corps Community Center in Uphams Corner. [ Boston Globe ] The body of Juan C. Guzman, an Iraq War veteran, was recovered from the Merrimack River in Lawrence today. Three days ago, he was thrown into the water after a boating accident. [ Boston Globe ] A Westport

resident formed a coffee company whose profits, in part, will benefit schoolchildren in Costa Rica. [ Patriot Ledger ] A Framingham book store refuses to display a homosexual-themed painting despite allegedly selling literature about homosexuality. [ MetroWest Daily News ] The Dow Jones industrial average went up over 250 points today. [ AP via Boston.com ] With WBCN going off the air, the Herald thinks the sports-radio wars will flair up again. [ Boston Herald ]

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Bite Size News, July 15: Good Deed Edition