Networks announce guests for news shows

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

• ABC’s “This Week” — Former Secretary of State James Baker; Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
• CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sens. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
• NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Israeli Cabinet member Natan Sharansky and commentator Patrick Buchanan.
• CNN’s “Late Edition” — South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon; Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.; Imad Moustapha, Syrian ambassador to the United States; Daniel Ayalon, Israeli ambassador to the United States; Govs. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Bill Owens of Colorado; Iraqi national security adviser Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie.
• “Fox News Sunday” — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.

Washington, D.C.

Wal-Mart settles in child labor cases

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will pay $135,540 to settle federal charges that it broke child labor laws, the Labor Department said Saturday.

The 24 violations, which occurred at stores in Arkansas, Connecticut and New Hampshire, had to do with teenage workers who used hazardous equipment such as a chain saw, paper balers and fork lifts.

Wal-Mart denied the allegations but agreed to pay the penalty. A spokeswoman for the Bentonville, Ark., company said Wal-Mart was preparing a statement Saturday.

Child labor laws prohibit anyone under 18 from operating hazardous equipment.

The allegations, which occurred between 1998 and 2002, involved one case in New Hampshire where a youth was using a chain saw to trim Christmas trees.

A majority of the cases in Connecticut involved children loading paper balers.

In the settlement, Wal-Mart also agreed to continue providing store managers with training on child labor law compliance and provide new managers with similar training.

Arizona

Navajos vote to outlaw methamphetamine use

The Navajo Nation’s governing council voted Friday to outlaw methamphetamine, an addictive stimulant that has become a scourge for tribal police and health officials on the sprawling reservation.

The tribe’s drug laws ban most other substances that are illegal in the rest of the United States, but until Friday made no specific mention of methamphetamine.

“This legislation is a matter of urgency,” said Hope MacDonald-LoneTree, who sponsored the bill and heads a public safety committee in Window Rock updating the Navajo’s criminal code, which, she said, had not been updated “for a couple of decades.”

The measure passed in a 64-0 voice vote. It now goes to Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. for consideration; he has previously said he would support codes to stop drug and alcohol use on the Navajo Nation, which is home to roughly 200,000 people.

Pennsylvania

Bus driver busted for ‘Survivor’ tape

A school bus driver in Buena Vista encouraged students to jump around, throw things and misbehave on her moving bus so she could make an audition videotape for the reality television show “Survivor,” police said.

Maureen Monaghan was charged with recklessly endangering children after allegedly urging 10 students to act up on her bus for the video, which she hoped would earn her a spot on the CBS show.

A separate camera on the inside of the bus recorded the Jan. 6 incident, and the bus company gave the footage to police.

“She encouraged the children to be disorderly on the bus while it was moving,” Elizabeth Township police Chief Robert Wallace said. “In viewing the tape, there was so much commotion going on, we felt it was a very unsafe situation for her to allow this to happen.”

It was not clear why the driver wanted misbehaving students in the video. The network suggests that “Survivor” applicants use their auditions to “talk about your job” and “why you would be the ultimate Survivor,” according to the show’s Web site.