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A group of teenagers helped redesign this teen section, formerly known as Next, which needs a new name to reflect the changes. Whoever comes up with the name we use will receive an iPod. Teen writers generate the majority of the content, which focuses on teen lifestyles and entertainment. If you have a name for the section, please e-mail it to Lifestyle Editor Jake Womer at jakew@herald-mail.com and include your name, age, phone number and address. You also can mail it to The Herald-Mail; c/o Lifestyle; P.O. Box 439; Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Contest rules A group of teenagers helped redesign this teen section, formerly known as Next, which needs a new name to reflect the changes. Whoever comes up with the name we use will receive an iPod. Teen writers generate the majority of the content, which focuses on teen lifestyles and entertainment. The redesign committee based suggestions on the results of surveys of Washington County students. Robert Keller, an eighth-grader at Western Heights Middle School; Sarah Johnston, a junior at North Hagerstown High School; and Summer-Rain Quintana, a senior at North Hagerstown High School completed the project.

This is Alan Sokol's second article on podcasting - radio broadcasting of sorts that's made available to the world via the Internet. Alan's previous story was published on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Last time we talked about what a podcast is and how to download and listen to one. Now, I'll tell you about making your own podcast and uploading it to the Web. Podcasters do this by converting their audio recording into what is called an RSS...

I found out after the fact that The Daily Mail published a couple of local photos that were taken with someone's camera phone. The photos were e-mailed to the paper. A camera phone. I don't think it was sprinkled with megapixels either. It's funny how technology seems to seep into your everyday life whether you want it to or not. And Americans don't seem to mind. We pay for "minutes" with our cell phone plans. We've been buying special water - bottled water, that is - for years.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. ? Five people were charged this week in an alleged scheme in which more than $8,000 in digital video discs and other electronic equipment were stolen from five Wal-Marts in the Tri-State area, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Lonnie E. Pennington, 29, David L. Pennington, 33, and Jack R. Pennington, 27, all of Kearneysville, W.Va.; Amanda R. Smith, 21, of Inwood, W.Va.; and Christine Crosbie, 43, of Falling Waters, W.Va., were arrested Thursday afternoon by West Virginia State Police at Famous Pawn Brokers at 911 Winchester Ave., according to court records . The three men were arraigned Friday on charges of transferring stolen property, conspiracy to bring stolen property into West Virginia and fraudulent schemes, according to court records.