Mosaic Staff Writer, Rachel Gill, shares her internship experience at News Channel 5 in Vermont. It includes amusing stories and good advice for aspiring journalists.

It is 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and while most people are snuggled up in bed, Audra Lalli’s day has only just begun. Lalli is busy mixing cookie dough and icing her specialty cakes in the lilac-painted kitchen at the Mad Hatter Bakery located at 64 Broadway St. in Newport.

WASHINGTON – Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is the latest celebrity to feel the heat of the anti-sweatshop movement, as charges that his “Sean John” T-shirts were being manufactured under inhumane conditions burst onto to the TV news.

Most Saturdays on the Salve Regina campus are sleepy and quiet. Students are recovering from the previous night’s fun and games. At 10 a.m. on a coveted weekend morning, most college students are not giving much thought to serious issues such as rape, incest, domestic abuse and murder. However, on the last Saturday before residential students left for Thanksgiving Break (11/22), the collegiate organization “Circle K” felt that it was time to stop turning a blind (or sleepy) eye to the horrific reality of domestic violence.

Newport’s liquor stores and bars use new scanning devices and common sense when facing the challenge of spotting fake IDs.