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WASHINGTON - Behind his decision to begin an innovative program that encourages addicts to seek treatment, said Leonard Campanello, police chief in Gloucester, Massachusetts, was an awareness of his own fallibility.

Campanello acknowledged at a ceremony where he was honored by the White House that he struggled last year in a decision to allow addicts to come to the city's police station - bringing their drugs and paraphernalia - without fear of arrest.

By: Deborah Becker and Shannon Dooling\

Some New England fishermen could now be looking at footing the bill for the cost of fishing monitors. The federally mandated monitors periodically collect data aboard vessels and observe the catches of groundfish, like cod and flounder.

Up until now, these monitors have been funded by the National Marine Fisheries Services. But that funding has run out, and the costs will now shift to the fishermen. Some say the costs could be upwards of $700 per trip.