New Technology & Cookie For Girl Scouts January 9, 2012 9:46 AM NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – With a fresh Girl Scout cookie season underway, the charity is also embracing new technology and a new cookie! Last year, online sales were added as a way to boost lagging Girl Scout cookie sales. Now, there’s a free Cookie Locator app available for iPhone and Android users. The app uses GPS technology to direct customers to the nearest cookie sale location, which could be a new neighborhood booth that accepts credit cards. And given that this year is the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, they’ve also introduced a new cookie — Savannah Smiles.…

DNA links 1991 killing to Colonial-era family – CNN.com By the CNN Wire Staff 2012-01-10T01:30:54Z (CNN) — DNA may help Seattle-area sheriff’s deputies find a suspect in a 20-year-old killing after a comparison with genealogy records connected a crime-scene sample to a 17th-century Massachusetts family. The DNA sample was taken in the death of 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough, who was killed on her high school campus in Federal Way, Washington, in December 1991. The King County Sheriff’s Office has circulated two composite sketches of a possible suspect — a man in his 20s at the time with shoulder-length blonde or light brown hair — but had been unable to put a…