Couple hoping billboard brings them a child

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Here's a heartwarming yet frustrating story from Michigan, where a Clarkston couple named Wendy and Josh Rougeau are so tired of the slow-moving adoption process that they've spent $2,000 to rent a billboard on I-75 advertising their desire to be adoptive parents. "We thought, 'What better way to communicate with hundreds of thousands of people each week, 24 hours a day, seven days a week?' " Josh says. The calls are now apparently flooding in.

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