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Published: April 15, 2008
When testing high is bad
By John David Sutter
BLACKWELL — Kim Jernigan believed the local rumors of cancer and early death. But she wasn't convinced they were connected to this northern Oklahoma town's former zinc smelter — not until she got a phone call in 2006.

On that morning, school officials told Jernigan, 35, that Kaylee, her then-5-year-old daughter, had tested for dangerous levels of lead in her blood — 3.5 times the amount the federal government...

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