These are news stories pulled from the main stream news about skateboarding...

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:01:25 GMT The official skateboard of the Pope (About.com) I was just wandering around the internet, looking for some skateboard logos, and I happened across this story about the youth of New York giving the Pope a skateboard back...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:29:00 GMT Man critical after skateboard attack (Adelaide Now) A YOUNG man allegedly clubbed with a skateboard as he walked through Macquarie University with his fiancee was fighting for his life in hospital yesterday.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:49:00 GMT Skateboard victim near death (Daily Telegraph) A YOUNG man is fighting for his life in hospital with massive head injuries after being attacked with a skateboard on a night out near Macquarie University.

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:25:32 GMT Police looking for skateboard prowlers (Concord Monitor) The police are asking for help finding two men who broke into a Concord Heights business, prowled around, then took off on skateboards.

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:02:00 GMT Two injured in separate falls (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) A 20-year-old man remains in a critical condition after falling off a skateboard that was being towed behind a car in the south-west.

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:09:47 GMT Now how about legalizing snowmobiles on the street? (Summit Daily News) Now that it's OK to skateboard as a means of transportation how about allowing snowmobiles on town streets again during the winter months? It takes a lot less fuel to use a snowmobile as transportation than autos so it would make sense.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:01:25 GMT Fall off your skateboard, and survive! (About.com) Here's an e-mail I received this week: "If I do fall is there any proper way for me to land without hurting my self and ending up on an EMS vehicle...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:53:35 GMT Police stop car with stolen Des Moines skateboard equipment (The Des Moines Register) Des Moines and Urbandale police joined forces this week on an investigation of a break-in at Next Generation Skateboard Shop, taking two teenagers into custody on burglary charges.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:57:52 GMT Yard sales won't cure economic woes (Miami Herald) Let me get this straight. The Miami Springs City Council is considering increasing the number of yard sales that residents can hold, because they recognize that these are ''tough economic times,'' yet they are proceeding with frivolous, unnecessary and unwarranted expenditures, such as building a new gymnasium, a 10,000-square-foot skateboard park, and moving the city's tennis courts.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:28:24 GMT Boy creates skateboard line while healing from surgery (Bay News 9 Tampa Bay) MANATEE COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- An 11-year-old boy has created a line of skateboards after doctors told him he couldn't skate board while he healed from heart surgery.