Groundhog wars: Rodents diverge on winter forecast
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil told
people to prepare for six more weeks of winter on Thursday,
making him the minority opinion among his groundhog brethren who
seem to think that spring is coming early.  But with such a mild
and relatively snowless winter so far, who can tell the
difference between?  Phil's "prediction" came as he emerged from
his lair to "see" his shadow on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in
the town for which he's named about 65 miles northeast of
Pittsburgh.  But groundhogs in at least four other states --
West Virginia's French Creek Freddie, Georgia's Gen. Beauregard
Lee, Ohio's Buckeye Chuck and New York's Staten Island Chuck
(full name: Charles G. Hogg) -- did not see their shadows.
Temperatures were near freezing when Phil emerged at dawn --
unseasonably warm for Punxsutawney -- and were forecast to climb
into the mid-40s in a winter that's brought little snow and only
a few notably cold days to much of th