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Cuban-Americans are worried about the appointment of Gregory Craig to the position of White House Counsel — owing, among other things, to his role in the infamous Elian Gonzalez case that resulted in the refugee youngster being forcibly returned to communist Cuba from Miami.
"It looks like there will be a clear change in policy towards Castro's Cuba given that someone like Craig will be in the White House," Miguel Perez, a journalism professor and former New York Daily News columnist, told the Wall Street Journal.
Gregory Craig worked for an Washington D.C.'s elite firm, Williams & Connolly, one of America's priciest firms. That's where he was "retained" by Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a doorman at a Cuban hotel. Elian's freedom-seeking mother drowned in the boat mishap that put Elian into the water off the Florida coast before he was rescued by U.S. authorities.
Craig's fees were reportedly paid from a mysterious fund set up by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society and administered by the National Council of Churches, according to a report in The American Thinker.
In short order, Craig flew to Cuba for an exclusive meeting about the case with none other than "El Lider Maximo" — Dictator Fidel Castro. The lawyer made his point to Castro that he absolutely needed Juan Miguel in the U.S. if he were ever to have a fighting chance to get the boy released to his surviving parent.
According to American Thinker, Castro was cool to the idea of letting the father go since it was feared that he wanted to make his own escape to the U.S. to join his son.
The end result of the Craig-Castro negotiations was that the father was permitted to travel to the U.S. — but always in the company of Castro's select escorts.
"Juan Miguel was never completely alone," described one witness to Juan Miguel's famous and highly scripted interview with CBS anchor Dan Rather at a studio in New York City.
"He never smiled," the witness continued. "His eyes kept shifting back and forth. It was obvious to me that he was under coercion. He was always surrounded by security agents from the Cuban Interests Section, as they called it. When these agents left him alone for a few seconds, Gregory Craig himself would be hovering over Juan Miguel."
Just days later, the Cuban-American population, and Americans generally, were horrified to see machine gun-wielding agents of the INS push into the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez, a relative. The crying 6-year-old was removed at gunpoint to be returned with his father to Cuba.
Score one in the major victory column for Craig.
But as The Wall Street Journal quotes from a Weekly Standard report, the Castro connection is not all there is of Craig's involvement with Latin America — an involvement that may not sit well with moderate Hispanics in the U.S.
"He has represented foreign officials accused of war crimes such as former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez-Berzaín and Pedro Miguel González, the president of Panama's legislature, who is under federal indictment for the murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernández Laporte."
Craig was an aide at the side of Sen. Ted Kennedy when the Massachusetts lawmaker probed alleged abuses committed by the Contra rebels fighting the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
As the Journal pointed out in its coverage, it was later discovered that the prime witnesses — three Miskito Indians — were participating in the hearing at the behest of the Sandinistas.
At that same forum in 1984, another hearing witness, an American priest working inside Nicaragua, was photographed by a U.S. newspaper with a Soviet-made rifle in his hand. The quote in the caption: "To me it was a day of grace the day the Sandinistas took over, and I really mean it."
Craig, Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer, who has also served such clients as would-be Reagan assassinator John Hinckley and accused rapist William Kennedy Smith, is not marching to his desk near the Oval Office without protest.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton recently lashed out: "Not only did Greg Craig defend the worst of the worst of the Clinton scandals but he also defended the violent government raid that delivered Elian Gonzalez back to Castro's Cuba. In fact, we believe that Greg was working with communist Cuban government during the Elian affair. Greg Craig is the wrong lawyer to serve as White House Counsel in the Obama White House."
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I found this book interesting. I would have liked to have learned more about the main character between the time he was writing the book and the time he left school; I felt that was glossed over and could have really enhanced the story. Mainly I liked this book because it talked about so many other literary works!
You'll come to this for the poisonously funny take-down of Ayn Rand. She is one tough capitalist cookie, as Wolff presents her to us. See her stare down her college-aged detractors, the harsh squint of her steely eye, the almost muscular nature of that harsh squint. Wolff shows better than I can describe here that the essence of Rand's philosophy of so-called Logical Positivism is that of a rather noxious weed wholly and ridiculously dismissive of the very substrate it grows from. Logical Positivists claim to perceive life and its pageantry with clearer vision than that of any other philosophy. They claim to experience life directly as it really is; i.e., they claim to grab on and handle the "dings an sich" of quote-unquote real life without subjecting those objects to the filtering fog of thought or physical sensation. Which is utter nonsense, right? We experience objective and outside life *only* through our five senses, and we experience any and all coherent mental phenomena in the same way we express it: through language. Anyway, that foregoing rant was dull and probably unclear. But Wolff's chapter on Rand is seriously funny, and, again, shows Rand as she is better than I can explain it.
A vivid semi-autobiographical novel about a writer-to-be at an exclusive and competitive New England prep school where literature is everything, and student writers compete for the right to personal audiences with visiting celebrities including Robert Frost, Ayn Rand, and Ernest Hemingway. Questions of race and class bubble more or less gently under everything before the theme of the book resolves into the question of honesty, honor, and the way a writer's path inevitably creates tension with both. Understated, nuanced, and thought-provoking.
I think this book is semi-autobiographical. It is the story of a young man in his years at prep school, a school that focuses on literary achievement. Quite bookish. Every year the school invites several famed authors to visit, and encourages the students' writing efforts with a competition. They submit a piece of writing, and the visiting author chooses one. The prized reward is a one-on-one chat between famed author and student writer. The boys compete fiercely for this honor, and talk about it all year. During the course of the novel, Robert Frost and Ayn Rand both visit the school. The final author in the lineup is Ernest Hemmingway, but he doesn't show. Through it all, the narrator, our unnamed boy, is searching for himself. Searching for himself as a writer, searching for his identity as a person, as a friend. There are subtle duplicities going on- he doesn't quite admit to his friends who his family really is, wanting to obscure parts of his identity in order to fit in, and it bothers him the entire year. When finally a chance comes and he realizes how he can show the truth of who he is, it involves another kind of fakery, which gets him expelled. And who will he be now? What does it mean to be a writer, what does it mean to tell the truth? to live it?
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Old School is about a prep school boy trying to win a literary contest so he can meet Robert Frost, Ayn Rand or Ernest Hemingway. The three authors are characters in the book as they visit the school. I found the portrayal of Ayn Rand to be a little unfair, as did many of her followers on Ayn Rand websites.
One of the themes of the book that spoke to me was literature as a shared experience. Early on, the author explains why he and his classmates have such high esteem for English teachers in particular:
Say you've just read Faulkner's "Barn Burning." Like the son in the story, you've sensed the faults in your father's character. Thinking about them makes you uncomfortable; left alone, you'd probably close the book and move on to other thoughts. But instead you are taken in hand by a tall, brooding man with a distinguished limp who involves you and a roomful of other boys in the consideration of what it means to be a son.
Much later, that brooding man with the limp is described:
He'd been a reader since childhood, and the habit had deepened during his years of travel for the Forbes-Farragut shipping line, but until he began teaching he'd rarely had occasion to talk about what he read. He could read a story like "The Minister's Black Veil" and both shrink from and relish the soul-chill it worked on him without having to fix that response in words, or explain how Hawthorne had produced it. Teaching made him accountable for his thoughts, as as he became accountable for them he had more of them, and they became sharper and deeper.
After he leaves the school, the experience of reading is changed for the teacher:
For thirty years he had lived in conversation with boys, answerable to their own sense of how things worked, to their skepticism, and, most gravely, to their trust. Even when alone he had read and thought in their imagined presence, made responsible by it, enlivened and honed by it. Now he read in solitude and hardly felt himself to be alive.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375701494, Paperback)Tobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school in the early 1960s, the novel imagines a final, pastoral moment before the explosion of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the suicide of Ernest Hemingway.
The unnamed narrator is one of several boys whose life revolves around the school's English teachers, those polymaths who seemed to know "exactly what was most worth knowing." For the boys, literature is the center of life, and their obsession culminates in a series of literary competitions during their final year. The prize in each is a private audience with a visiting writer who serves as judge for the entries.
At first, the narrator is entirely taken with the battle. As he fails in his effort to catch Robert Frost's attention and then is unable--due to illness--to even compete for his moment with Ayn Rand, he devotes his energies to a masterpiece for his hero, Hemingway. But, confronting the blank page, the narrator discovers his cowardice, his duplicity. He has withheld himself, he realizes, even from his roommate. He has used his fiction to create a patrician gentility, a mask for his middle class home and his Jewish ancestry. Through the competition for Hemingway, fittingly, all of his illusions about literature dissolve.
Old School is a small, neatly made book, spare and clear in its prose. Each chapter is self-contained and free of anything extraneous to the essentials of plot, mood, and character. Near the end of the novel, the narrator, now a respected writer, imagines that he might one day write about his school days. But he is daunted. "Memory," he says, "is a dream to begin with, and what I had was a dream of memory, not to be put to the test." Old School enters this interplay between dreams and the adult interrogation of memory. Risking sentimentality, Wolff confronts a golden age that never was. From the confrontation, he distills a powerful novel of failed expectations and, ultimately, redemptive self-awareness. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention of visiting writers whose fame helps to perpetuate the tradition. Robert Frost, soon to appear at JFK's inauguration, is far less controversial than the next visitor, Ayn Rand. But the final guest is one whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything to gain.… (more)
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This year, the Mid-Year Meeting was once again held in Washington, DC at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza hotel from June 16-17th. Nearly 100 registrants participated in the Mid-Year Meeting, and of the 44 companies represented, 33 were Member companies. As Mid-Year Meeting continues to bring expertise to the table, there were 4 speaker sessions and the standing committees also provided guest speakers at their meetings. The speaker sessions introduced experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Marie Wheat, Program Manager for BioPreferred), U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Chairman Elliot Kaye), Grocery Manufacturers Association (Jim Flannery, Senior Executive VP), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (Assistant Administrator Jim Jones). The presentation and the meeting materials are posted on the ACI Members Only Website.
There were 3 networking events where Members could mingle over a meal such as the Networking Breakfast, the Member Dinner and Special Presentation to Cleaning For A Reason, and also at the Healthy Schools, Healthy People, It's a SNAP Reception which closed the Mid-Year Meeting on June 18th. ACI's President and CEO, Ernie Rosenberg presented a check to Cleaning for a Reason's President and Founder, Debbie Sardone in the amount of $36,630 during the Mid-Year Meeting. This donation was made possible by strong member support during ACI's charity events which were held during the 2015 ACI Convention including charity a duck race (sponsored by Shell Chemical LP), a fun run (sponsored by Procter & Gamble), and a golf tournament during the 2015 ACI Convention which totaled a $36,630 donations to Cleaning for a Reason. The SNAP national award recipients from Fulda High School (Minnesota) were recognized for their efforts to "Clean Up Germ City" and received a cash award of $5,000 sponsored by ACI member companies: Arylessence, Inc., Colgate-Palmolive Company, Ecolab, Inc., GOJO Industries, Inc. and Henkel Consumer Goods Inc.
The 2014 Mid-Year Meeting was held in Washington, DC June 16-18, 2014, at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza hotel. More than 65 Members participated in ACI standing committee meetings, three speaker sessions and several networking events. Over 40 companies and outside organizations were represented including featured speakers from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the U.S. EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), and BrownFlynn. Commissioner Ann Marie Buerkle (CPSC) and Doug Parsons (OCSPP) shared insight on pressing issues affecting the cleaning products industry and Mike Wallace (BrownFlynn) discussed sustainability performance. The presentation and the meeting materials can all be found on the ACI Members Only Website.
The Meeting provided networking events including breakfast and lunch functions as well evening gatherings. Monday's Member Happy Hour and Tuesday's Reception and Dinner gave Members the opportunity to network following a long day of committee meetings each evening. A special awards ceremony and Healthy Schools, Healthy People Reception was an inspirational close to the ACI Mid-Year Meeting on the final evening, honoring the SNAP national award recipients from Dorsett Shoals Elementary School in Douglasville, GA.
Left to right: Chris Pearce (SJ Johnson) and Donna Mondimore (PMC Biogenix, Inc.)
Above: Commissioner Ann Marie Buerkle
Left to right: Brian Del Buono (Sun Products Corporation), Robert Nolles (Cosun Biobased Products) and Martin Wolf (Seventh Generation)
The 2013 June Member Meeting was held at the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) headquarters office in Washington, DC June 17-19, 2013. The meeting drew more than 60 attendees from 34 ACI member companies. Members participated in ACI standing committee meetings and three speaker sessions. Speakers included Mark N. Duvall, Esq. of Beveridge & Diamond, Alexandra Scranton of Women's Voices for the Earth and Adam Siegel of Retail Industry Leaders Association. These speakers spoke on timely industry topics including health and hygiene, chemical management and retailer sustainability. The meeting included a networking reception at The Donovan House, allowing time for members to relax and mingle with their colleagues.
The presentation and the meeting materials can all be found on the ACI Members Only Website.
The American Cleaning Institute met at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Special presentations were given by Debbie Carr (AAPCC), Bryan Brooks (Baylor University) and Tony Walker (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality). The presentation and the meeting materials can all be found on the ACI Members Only Website.
The American Cleaning Institute once again delivered value to members from 25 companies during the May Mid-Year Meeting. Focused discussions on the strategic plan priorities of outreach, sustainability and chemical management were the focus of standing committee meetings. Mr. Steven Jost (right), Associate Director for Communications; U.S. Census Bureau presented on the topic of "Mobilizing a Nation for a New Portrait of America – and the Results". The presentation and the meeting materials can all be found on the ACI Members Only Website.
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American Journal of Community Psychology
, Volume 39, Issue 1, pp 79-90
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New York City young adults' psychological reactions to 9/11: findings from the Reach for Health longitudinal study
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This research examines psychological distress among 955 economically disadvantaged New York City residents surveyed during high school and again after the September 11th terrorist attacks (9/11), when they were young adults. As part of the longitudinal Reach for Health study, young adult surveys were conducted from 6–19 months post-9/11 (average 8 months), providing opportunity to assess types of exposures and psychological distress, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, hopelessness, and anger. Regressions of psychological distress on 9/11 exposure were performed, controlling for high school distress, prior exposure to violence victimization, and socio-demographic characteristics. Exposure to 9/11 was positively associated with anger, hopelessness, and PTSD symptoms and a measure of global distress. The relationship was greater among women for PTSD symptoms. Although those who reported high school distress also reported more distress in young adulthood, prior psychological distress did not moderate the relationship between exposure and psychological outcomes. Greater exposure is related to distress among those who, during high school, reported lower distress, as well as among those who reported prior greater distress.
KeywordsSeptember 11th Terrorism Psychological distress Ethnic/racial minority Longitudinal PTSD Symptoms
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- New York City young adults' psychological reactions to 9/11: findings from the Reach for Health longitudinal study
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American Journal of Community Psychology
Volume 39, Issue 1-2 , pp 79-90
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- 2007-03
- 10.1007/s10464-007-9093-4
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- 0091-0562
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Awesome New 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' Theatrical Trailer
Here is the full theatrical trailer for Brad Bird's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. As expected it looks awesome and should be a delight to see on IMAX. Here is the last trailer we showed you, which was also great encase you missed it. Bonus: Here is pro Tom Cruise running around the outside of the world's tallest building [watch].
The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Josh Holloway, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Lea Seydoux and Anil Kapoor. The film is set to be released on December 21, 2011. Watch the trailer below:
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.


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Caisen Reid Clower
Cody and Shea Lea Clower of Amarillo announce the birth of their son, Caisen Reid Clower. He was born Dec. 11, 2000.
Cody Isaac Clark
Gary and Whitney Clark of Canyon announce the birth of their son, Cody Isaac Clark. He was born Feb. 23, 2001.
Logan Daniel Aguilera
Mark and Vondalynn Aguilera of Amarillo announce the birth of their son, Logan Daniel Aguilera. He was born Feb. 14, 2001.
Fatal blood lines
Fairly early in this engrossing novel one of the younger members of a large clan says she has a hard time keeping up with "all these people.'' And indeed the reader may feel the same way - briefly.
Tripp: Great scenes, dialogue in new Holt book
Jaynell Lambert, age about 11, reports the comment early in "Dancing in Cadillac Light'' (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $5.99/$22.99), a new novel for young readers by Amarillo's Kimberly Willis Holt.
Roosevelt legacy
In an era of Bushes, Kennedys and Clintons, here's the gold standard.
Wylie: Once upon a time there was a smoker ...
Mike Haynes, AC journalism prof, sent a note in response to Carolyn Linville's question about use of single quotation marks in headlines.
Titus after Taos
The next volume in the Titus Bass series, "Wind Walker,'' finds Titus and his family fleeing Taos after the bloody rebellion.
Capsule Reviews
"Scarlet Feather'' by Maeve Binchy (Dutton, $25.95, 538 pp.) is a big, sprawling novel, as charming as its natural-born-storyteller author herself.
New Potter material on the market
There's a new Harry Potter book in town.
Taylor: Take charge of change, move the cheese
I seldom read all the books on the "best-seller" lists. I'm more of a late adapter. However, when several people mention a book and recommend it highly, I read it.
Disease can be eradicated but cause great economic damage
The virus that carries foot-and-mouth disease is so infectious that it could slip past defenses meant to keep it out of the United States, experts say.
'round downtown
Those with a stake in the health of downtown Amarillo say the city is safe, clean and a good place to do business.
Energy Briefs
BJ Services Co. has named Jim Horsch, who has 16 years experience in public accounting and has worked for BJ Services since 1995, as corporate controller.
Business Briefs
A luncheon for small business owners and minority and women entrepreneurs sponsored by the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission's Contract Procurement Center and Amarillo Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at Luby's Cafeteria, 2101 S. Coulter.
Foot-and-mouth disease might give U.S. producers opportunity to provide beef overseas
Should the current outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the European Union and other parts of the world continue, cattle producers in the United States might find a slew of new markets for their product.
Farm Briefs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that farmers should not plant any corn unless they are certain the seed has been tested and found free of the protein Cry9C, according to a Farm Service Agency news release.
Oil & Gas Report
HEMPHILL (WILDCAT & PARSELL Lower Morrow) Range Production Co., No.1-121 Remington 'B', 1320' from North & 1910' from West line, Sec. 121,42,H&TC, PD 13000'.
Ag committee recommends permanent farm budget increase
U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee members have recommended that the U.S. House Budget Committee be prepared to provide needed assistance for 2001 and to permanently increase the budget allocation for agriculture so that future ad hoc bills can be avoided, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Larry Combest, R-Lubbock, agriculture committee chairman.
Competition with high schoolers, others lifts Special Olympians
Seven first places and one runner-up.
Panhandle Day in Austin on March 7
With a swing of his gavel, Texas Speaker of the House Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, declares Panhandle Day at the Capitol.
Organizations offer training for foster parents
Several area organizations offer training for people interested in becoming licensed foster parents.
Couple devote lives to kids
They expected the cigarette burns and the vacant stares.
Childs: Archives CD offers help searching Pelican State
If any of your ancestors had ties to the Pelican State, it may be worthwhile for you to view the Family Tree Maker's Family Archives CD, "Genealogical Records: Early Louisiana Settlers, 1600s-1800s."
Tree of Love to help clothe foster children
Buckner Children and Family Services, along with Westgate Mall, will sponsor the fifth annual Tree of Love to clothe local foster children for Easter.
Archaeology group to hear curator Wednesday
The Panhandle Archeological Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Robert Lee Room at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo.
Arts entities luncheon thanks lawmakers
Amarillo's various arts entities turned out on March 9 to thank area legislators for their work in securing funding for the arts.
Ragin' Cajun 2001 set Saturday
Sample seafood Cajun style at Special Olympics Texas - Panhandle's fifth annual Ragin' Cajun 2001 from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday in the old Blackburn's building at 908 S. Polk St.
Boston museum's 'Head to Toe' costume collection exhibit highlights unusual accesories
BOSTON - Walking into this dimly lighted room on the first floor of the Museum of Fine Arts is a little like walking into your great-grandmother's attic, minus the dusty boxes and mothballs.
Buford likes to play
Hi. My name is Buford. I am a 2-year-old male Bassett mix available for adoption through the Animal Rescue Shelter.
Desk and Derrick Club 49th birthday celebration on March 6
The Desk and Derrick Club celebrated the organization's 49th birthday with a dinner and special speaker on March 6 at the Divine Grind.
Club Calendar
Monday Morning Toastmasters Club; Carolyn's Place, 3205 E. Interstate 40; 6:30 a.m.
LSB founder has brought more than dance to Amarillo area
Few people would associate Amarillo's Neil Hess with Aretha Franklin. But, if the famed singer speaks from the heart in her well-known tune, both seek the same thing: Respect.
Counselor to speak to voters' league
The League of Women Voters of Amarillo will sponsor a brunch for members and prospective members from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the home of Nikki Gatlin, 5006 Yale St.
Local artist to join ranks of honorees
Amarillo's Neil Hess will take a bow in the company of pianist Van Cliburn, singer Willie Nelson and Academy Award-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones at a Texas Cultural Trust Council fund-raiser on Tuesday in Austin.
On The Calendar
"PANHANDLE-PLAINS INVITATIONAL" through March 31, "THE COW, THE PLOW AND THE SOW," through April 1, "RENOVATING YESTERDAY, BUILDING TOMORROW," through April 15 and "GLITTER, GLAMOUR AND GLITZ: TEXAS PAGEANT AND FESTIVAL GOWNS," through Dec. 31, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Call 651-2244.
Ingalls: Exhibit showcases AC, WT talent
The Amarillo College/West Texas A&M University faculty and student exhibition is currently on display at Amarillo Museum of Art.
Agency needs crisis volunteers
Family Support Services needs crisis volunteers for the sexual assault and domestic violence programs.
Lone Star Ballet honors supporters
Lone Star Ballet honored the "stars'' who support the organization before the March 10 performance of "Creatures of Prometheus, Creatures of Broadway.''
Getting the visual
Making music visual.
Rotary Club seeing sponsors for roundup
The Rotary Club of Amarillo is searching for sponsors for its annual Shrimp and Catfish Roundup, asking for contributors at various levels.
Pampa, Canyon boys, girls soccer teams start playoffs today
The Pampa and Canyon boys' and girls' soccer teams will try to start playoff charges today with bi-district matches in Odessa.
Woodward takes Crown of Texas title from Randall with 7-5 win
Woodward (Okla.) Boomers coach Gregg Ward was about the only man in Amarillo smiling during those snow flurries Saturday afternoon.
Randall, Woodward in Crown finals
After six games, 40 innings, and a tiebreaker, Randall and Woodward, Okla., emerged from Friday's busy day on the ball field with the chance to claim the 2001 Crown of Texas Baseball Tournament.
Canyon, Pampa girls' teams win
ODESSA - The Canyon girls' soccer team didn't let second-half Odessa winds fluster it in a 1-0 bi-district win over El Paso Canutillo Saturday at the Ratliff Soccer Complex.
AHS boys, Tascosa girls claim golf titles
Amarillo and Tascosa proved to be better foul weather players than Andrews, and it paid off as they finished one-two, respectively, in the Amarillo Relays Golf Tournament on Saturday at Amarillo Country Club.
Andrews takes narrow lead at Amarillo Relays
Andrews, Amarillo High and Tascosa figure to battle it out for the boys' championship of the Amarillo Relays Golf Tournament in today's final round, weather permitting.
Randall's Hooker named 3-4A player of the year
Randall guard Keenan Hooker was named the player of the year in District 3-4A after becoming the first Amarillo boys' basketball player to make more than 100 3-point shots in a season.
Herring National planning Civic Circle branch
Herring National Bank will establish a new branch at the current FirstBank Southwest building, 2201 Civic Circle, sometime this fall, bank officials said Friday.
WESTERN COLLECTIBLES, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Civic Center Exhibit Hall
Fire damages home
An overloaded extension cord sparked a fire in the kitchen of a west Amarillo home.
Prospects often reluctant to work with 'troubled' children
Local providers are scrambling to find foster parents for increasing numbers of abused and neglected children removed from their homes.
Group whacks price of exercise pathway
Concerned whether the price tag of a project converting a vacated railroad track to exercise trails will be approved by its funder, the Rails To Trails Advisory Committee has trimmed and tweaked more than $3.6 million of the project's bells and whistles in hopes of approval.
Packard: When it comes to yardsticks, size really doesn't matter
I own a 4-foot yardstick.
STAND meeting focuses on Pantex contamination
Whether contamination from the Pantex Plant will affect people or the environment will be the topic during a meeting on Monday.
On The Agenda
Amarillo City Commission - Tuesday, 3 p.m., third floor, Commission Chamber, City Hall, 509 E. Seventh Ave.
Woman critical after Friday house fire
A woman was critically injured and her son and husband suffered minor injuries during a Friday morning house fire that killed a family pet.
Need growing for foster care parents
Adoptive parents hope to find the perfect child, but older children with behavioral problems need parents, too.
Family Dollar, AAMCO to open in Amarillo
Two new Family Dollar discount stores are scheduled to open in Amarillo later this year, company officials said Friday.
WESTERN COLLECTIBLES, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Civic Center Exhibit Hall
Wrong Bivins listed in group's financial report
The Randall County Anti-Rollback Committee plans to file an amended campaign finance report to correct an entry listing state Sen. Teel Bivins, R-Amarillo, as a contributor.
Potter reindicts man in 1994 slaying
A grand jury seated in 251st District Court on Thursday reindicted a man in a 1994 slaying, and the grand jury also indicted the owners of two nightclubs on charges of aggravated promotion of prostitution.
Man reported missing reappears
A Randall County man who was missing from his home and work for more than one week appeared Thursday night at the Amarillo Police Department.
Amarilloans go green for St. Patrick's Day
Kristina Carbajal already pinched her husband for not sporting the color of the day.
Census: 1 in 5 Americans claims a disability
Walking a quarter of a mile or lifting and carrying a 10-pound bag of groceries might seem like a small feat. But, for many Amarilloans, it's a giant leap.
Globe-News seeks readers' help with surveys
A new newspaper is coming to Amarillo, and you are invited to help build it.
Police check 2 robberies
Amarillo police are investigating two separate armed robberies that occurred about noon Saturday.
Amarillo Globe-News: Headlines: 03/18/01
Amarillo Globe-News: Headlines: 03/17/01
Dena Faye Heckathorn
QUANAH - Dena Faye "Sally" Heckathorn, 74, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Henry Mark Watts
Henry Mark Watts, 61, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Eugene H. Sunderman
Eugene H. Sunderman, 87, of Canyon, died Friday, March 16, 2001, in Amarillo.
Laura Louise Curtis
Laura Louise Curtis, 50, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Patricia Marie Lowe
Patricia Marie Lowe, 37, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 1, 2001, in Arlington.
Mary Coryne Dillard
Mary Coryne Dillard, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Betty Burrus
STINNETT - Betty McClellan Burrus, 68, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Charles Maurice Boaz
Charles Maurice Boaz, 25, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Henry Mark Watts
Henry Mark Watts, 61, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Everett William Anglin
CLARENDON - Everett William Anglin, 84, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Lowell T. Stafford
Lowell T. Stafford Sr. 69, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March, 15, 2001.
Jeter Hagan
Jeter "Dutch" Hagan, 78, of Amarillo, died Saturday, March 10, 2001.
Frances May Langewisch
DUMAS - Frances May Langewisch, 68, died Monday, March 12, 2001, in Phoenix.
Dena Faye Heckathorn
QUANAH - Dena Faye "Sally" Heckathorn, 74, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Mary Coryne Dillard
Mary Coryne Dillard, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Bill Vuicich Jr.
SEMINOLE - Bill Vuicich, 17, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Varner Stevens
CHILDRESS - Varner "B" Stevens, 86, formerly of Childress, died Friday, March 16, 2001, in Odessa.
Joyce N. Kersten
WELLINGTON - Joyce N. Kersten, 69, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
D.L. Vinyard
SHAMROCK - D.L. Vinyard, 87, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Frances May Langewisch
DUMAS - Frances May Langewisch, 68, died Monday, March 12, 2001, in Phoenix.
Irene Williams
Irene Williams, 87, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Lenora Lee Lemons
TULIA - Lenora Lee Lemons, 76, died Friday, March 16, 2001, in Amarillo.
Eugene H. Sunderman
Eugene H. Sunderman, 87, of Canyon, died Friday, March 16, 2001, in Amarillo.
Antonio Levario
Antonio Levario, 81, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Mary Jean Pennington
Mary Jean Baca Pennington, 70, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Jewell Mae Callan
QUANAH - Jewell Mae Callan, 91, died Saturday, March 17, 2001.
J D Logan
CHILDRESS - J D Logan, 75, died Wednesday, March 14, 2001.
Patricia Marie Lowe
Patricia Marie Lowe, 37, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 1, 2001, in Arlington.
Joyce N. Kersten
WELLINGTON - Joyce N. Kersten, 69, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Mary Jean Pennington
Mary Jean Baca Pennington, 70, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Donna Elizabeth Fitzer
PAMPA - Donna Elizabeth Fitzer, 38, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
Fred W. Perry
FRITCH - Fred W. Perry, 78, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Laura Louise Curtis
Laura Louise Curtis, 50, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Joan D. Schilling
Joan D. Schilling, 77, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Lowell T. Stafford
Lowell T. Stafford Sr. 69, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March, 15, 2001.
Ofelia Estrada
HEREFORD - Ofelia Estrada, 78, died Saturday, March 17, 2001, in Amarillo.
Donna Elizabeth Fitzer
PAMPA - Donna Elizabeth Fitzer, 38, died Thursday, March 15, 2001.
D.L. Vinyard
SHAMROCK - D.L. Vinyard, 87, died Friday, March 16, 2001.
Jeter Hagan
Jeter "Dutch" Hagan, 78, of Amarillo, died Saturday, March 10, 2001.
J D Logan
CHILDRESS - J D Logan, 75, died Wednesday, March 14, 2001.
Kanelis: Cheney's health is worth the worry
There once was a time when the health of the vice president of the United States mattered about as much as - in the immortal words of former Vice President John Nance Garner - "a bucket of warm spit."
Editorial: Airport, city officials ought to heed TxDOT
Amarillo International Airport isn't going to grow without a major push from the city.
Letters: More questions than answers
After reading Terry Bible's opinion (March 4 letter) of the new fire district for Randall County, I'm afraid I was left with more questions than answers.
Morphis: Faith-based help available throughout Panhandle
The recent election of President Bush has brought anticipation of government funding for faith-based non-profits.
Urrutia: Energas suffers from 'bad rap'
Energas is a local distribution company, meaning that we distribute natural gas to our customers and do not own any storage facilities or produce any natural gas.
Black: Tales of the backside; or, the scorpion strikes
Dear Baxter, I've been meaning to send you a "thank you" for the new book you sent at Christmas. We have it about half colored, ha, ha.
Editorial: Local government should determine need
Potter County commissioners took no official action Monday regarding the ongoing controversy of county constable salaries. Other than a reading of a letter from attorney Chuck Hester, who is representing Constable Leon "Bubba" Smith, there was nothing of substance accomplished.
Editorial: County is wise to bring Internet into operation
An anonymous wise man once said, "Mater artium necessitas." Translated from the Latin, it means, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
Leschper: Spring may sound death knell for PK
There's a deathwatch underway in the rocky hills of north-central Texas. It's a vigil shared by outdoorsmen and biologists, landowners and tourists.
Field Trials
The Amarillo Bird Dog Club held its Van Henson Memorial Endurance Field Trial March 10-11. Bird dog owners from a number of Texas cities competed in this National Shoot-To-Receive-sanctioned event. Thirty-two dogs competed in each field.
Outdoor Notes
Todd Town won the March 10-11 Mini-Boat Bass Club tournament on Lake Baylor at Childress with a total weight of 8.39 pounds.
`Pro-life' advocate set to speak
International and national "pro-life" advocate the Rev. Frank Pavone will be the keynote speaker for the Fourth Annual Respect Life Banquet, sponsored by the Diocese of Amarillo Respect Life Ministries, at 5 p.m. March 25 at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza.
Religion Briefs
Crossroad Cowboy Ministries Cowboy Church, Crossroad Building, 1200 Vega Blvd, Vega, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Music will be by Tracy Bryant, and the message will be by Jim Watkins. Baby-sitting will be provided for ages infant to 5 years.
Shelburne: Speaking well of fellow man much better than speaking ill
Editor's Note: Among the papers and books a Christian lady left behind when she died, friends found copies of two essays that Gene Shelburne wrote early in 1981.
Couples conference scheduled
People wanting to find out more about relationships with their mates are invited to a Couples Conference 2001 on April 6-7 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2525 Wimberly Road.
Supplements may not contain what they say
Recent laboratory tests of 27 types of multivitamins have again demonstrated the worrisome fact that many packages of dietary supplements on store shelves don't contain what their labels say.
Fueling the machine
For most people, fad diets don't work.
Getting personal
Close your eyes and envision a personal trainer at a health club.
Spurs win ninth straight game with 95-86 victory over Nets
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The San Antonio Spurs are rounding into playoff form with a month to spare.
OSU's emotional year ends after nightmarish first half
UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Four years is a long time between NCAA tournament bids. So it didn't matter to the Southern Cal Trojans whom they played - even it was the team nobody wanted them to beat.
Formal discussions begin between Knight, Tech
LUBBOCK (AP) - Formal discussions began Friday to make Bob Knight the new coach at Texas Tech.
Sports Briefs
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Tiger Woods wasn't about to let one bad swing keep him from where he wanted to be - in the lead Saturday at the Bay Hill Invitational, and in position to win for the first time this year.
Beilue: Lady Raiders' O'Neal: In a class by herself
LUBBOCK - On the United Spirit Arena basketball court, Texas Tech's Katrisa O'Neal of Plainview is in a class by herself.
Stanford gets scare from St. Joseph's
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Stanford Cardinal ended their second-round NCAA funk with their hearts in their throats, though.
Mizzou left feeling blue
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - On a day when Mike Krzyzewski and Quin Snyder found it difficult to control their emotions, the best tandem in college basketball remained cool.
Terps overwhelm Georgia St., 79-60
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Lefty Driesell against the Terrapins proved to be a far more enticing matchup than Georgia State against Maryland.
10 Questions With ...
Mikey Marshall was recruited to play basketball at Texas Tech following an outstanding career at Tulia High School, and he surprised Red Raider fans during the recently completed season by working his way into the starting lineup as a freshman.
Temple rolls over Texas for 79-65 win
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - John Chaney is tough to please.
Knight could soon be a 'West Texan'
LUBBOCK - Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight met with the upper tier of Texas Tech administrators this weekend as support for making Knight the Red Raiders' new basketball coach grew into almost gleeful anticipation.
UCLA routs Utah State to advance to Sweet 16
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Steve Lavin sent a message to his team by benching two starters for skipping study hall. UCLA responded the same way it has all season - by winning.
Women's Big 12 Roundup
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Triola Alexander scored a career-high 21 points as St. Mary's of California beat Texas 68-64 Friday night in the first round of the Mideast Regional for its first NCAA tournament victory.
Helling hit hard in loss to Twins; Mets release Leyritz
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Jay Canizaro and Matt Lawton homered, and the Minnesota Twins hit Rick Helling hard Saturday in a 9-1 victory against the Texas Rangers.
Bearcats' transition game sinks upset-minded Kent St., 66-43
SAN DIEGO (AP) - First, Bob Huggins screamed at his players. Later, after Cincinnati ran Kent State and a second-round jinx into the ground, he hugged them.
Lady Bears suffer loss to Arkansas
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - In the opening minutes of Saturday's West Regional against Baylor, Arkansas coach Gary Blair didn't like what he saw.
Indiana State needs OT to upset Sooners
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Kelyn Block's reward for leading Indiana State to another of this year's first-round upsets in the NCAA tournament was an emergency trip to the dentist.
Sunday Sound-Off: Mike Lee
Bob Knight is seventh on the NCAA all-time list for coaching victories with 764. Despite what he says publicly, breaking Dean Smith's record of 879 victories is something Knight badly wants.
Bagwell lifts Astros past Marlins
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) - Jesus Sanchez was hit hard for the third time this spring, allowing eight runs in 3 1/3 innings as the Florida Marlins lost to the Houston Astros 9-3 Friday night.
Texas clips OSU in 10 innings, 2-1
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Ryan Hubele's RBI-single in the 10th inning lifted Texas over Oklahoma State 2-1 in a Big 12 Conference game on Friday.
Penn State defeats Friars
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Crispin brothers sure know how to play nice together.
Oklahoma women struggle against Oral Roberts
DOC NAME:LO0718 NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Oral Roberts got the tempo it wanted. Oklahoma got the victory.
Tech's Ellis hopes to see Knight as his next coach
Andy Ellis didn't know what to expect when he went to eat breakfast with legendary basketball coach Bob Knight on Saturday morning in Lubbock.
Point Given romps in San Felipe
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - This time, Point Given forgot to be lazy.
Hayes leaves hospital
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Barely able to walk and still wearing medical bracelets, Bob Hayes attended a high school track meet named for him after persuading doctors to let him briefly leave a hospital Saturday.
Rockets top Spurs; Mavs blast Suns
HOUSTON (AP) - Steve Francis scored 30 points and Cuttino Mobley had 26 as the Houston Rockets ended an 11-game losing streak against the Spurs by beating San Antonio 103-99 Saturday night.
KU flattens Northridge
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Trailing pesky Cal-State Northridge late in the first half, Kansas coach Roy Williams called a timeout and called for change.
Kentucky wears down Iowa, advances to Sweet 16, 92-79
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Kentucky used a 12-0 run at the end of the first half to take control and went on to wear down Iowa 92-79 on Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Tech thrashes Penn, 100-57
LUBBOCK - Leave it to youthful enthusiasm to come up with new incentive for winning in the Women's NCAA basketball tournament.
Sports Briefs
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - For Paul Goydos, the Bay Hill Invitational has a familiar look to it. He was in the lead, and just about everyone else including Tiger Woods was lurking.
Alumni rally around Knight
LUBBOCK - While some of Texas Tech's faculty are voicing opposition to the possible hiring of Bob Knight as the university's new head men's basketball coach, some alumni are out to prove just how many supporters there are for the former Indiana coach.
Scorpions penalized
The Amarillo Rattlers playoff hopes took a positive turn Friday without the team taking the ice.
Gonzaga edges Virginia
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Casey Calvary put back a blocked shot with 9.2 seconds left Friday to give Gonzaga an 86-85 victory over Virginia in the opening round of the South Regional and add to the Zags' list of upsets.
Roberson, Tech shut out Kansas State, 7-0
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Brandon Roberson pitched a nine-inning shutout for Texas Tech, which beat Kansas State 7-0 on Friday.
Mavs have reason to be confident
DALLAS (AP) - They're going to finish the season with a winning record and, if their recent hot streak continues, they could even host a first-round playoff series.
Lady Raiders will play host to Virginia Tech in second round
LUBBOCK - More than 10,000 screaming fans rallying behind a basketball team can sink visiting opponents beneath an avalanche of sound, forcing mental errors and causing mistakes.
Tech extends streak with 16-2 victory
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Just two weeks removed from its most frustrating weekend of baseball this season, Texas Tech is now finding out how the other half lives.
Trojans shock Boston College with 74-71 win
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Robert Hutchinson took charge in the final minutes when he suddenly found himself running the point for Southern California.
Active Disk
This reviewer made a common enough marital mistake this year - I replaced the old computer where we had prepared last year's income taxes with a brand new machine and forgot to save the Turbo Tax data files.
Spellmann: Norton Utilities offers programs to solve problems
Back in the old days of computers, no computer geek would be caught dead without a copy of Norton Utilities.
Shamrock celebrates its day
SHAMROCK - Joyce Locke of Amarillo remembers the small town of Shamrock as a bustling burg around the time she was in high school.
Feds case against Koch shrinks for third time
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) - For the third time since January, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped charges in its environmental case against Koch Industries Inc.
Agencies reward informants who helped catch escapees
IRVING - A big thank you was given Friday to law enforcement and the seven Coloradans who provided tips that led to the capture of the Texas fugitives accused in the slaying of a police officer.
Controversy started small
The chain of events that plunged Tulia into the national spotlight began quietly enough with a simple knock on a door in the early morning hours on July 23, 1999.
HUD won't tell when it will meet paper's request
GALVESTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is refusing to say when - or even whether - it will honor The Galveston County Daily News' request last year for HUD scores awarded to coalitions serving homeless people. qq
Six people indicted in hammer slayings
BELTON (AP) - Six people have been indicted in connection with the hammer slayings of two former college students missing for two weeks.
Tiny town an unlikely target for firestorm of controversy
The tiny, peaceful town of Tulia seems an unlikely candidate for a battleground in the war over racial injustice and drug policy. But a battleground is precisely what Tulia has become since 46 people - 39 of them black - were charged in 1999 with selling drugs to an undercover agent.
Man committed to mental health facility after sending threats to Hereford officials
HEREFORD - A Hereford man was found not guilty by reason of insanity this week for sending threatening letters to Hereford's mayor and a district judge.
TWU erroneously lists sex number
DENTON (AP) - Transposed digits in a toll-free telephone number delivered too much information to some Texas Woman's University students.
Lotto winners collect top prize
AUSTIN - The winners of the $85 million Lotto Texas jackpot - the largest in state history - came forward Friday to reveal their names, but everything else about the couple remains a mystery.
Houston INS gets second OSHA citation
HOUSTON (AP) - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Houston office for failing to properly protect workers from diseases potentially spread by immigrants. It was the second such admonition in 12 months.
Judge turns down Lockney motion for case rehearing
LUBBOCK - A federal judge denied a motion by Lockney schools to rehear the case involving its mandatory "suspicionless" drug-testing program, attorneys said Friday.
NASA ex-spy plane to be based in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A high-flying scientific laboratory in the shape of a former spy plane will help land-bound scientists who are trying to keep track of global climate change.
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AUSTIN - Sand Branch doesn't have a water sewer system, its homes are old and in dire need of repair, and mosquitoes infest the garbage that is sporadically collected.
Town in turmoil
It was supposed to be a simple undercover drug operation, just like at least four others run in the Tulia area during the past 15 years.
Family landowners receive honors
AUSTIN - The Texas Department of Agriculture on Friday honored 115 state farmers and ranchers as part of its Family Land Heritage program.
Credit union unique in state's high schools
PEARLAND (AP) - The corner of a student commons area at sprawling Pearland High School looks like it better belongs in a grocery store or a Wal-Mart.
Compaq expected to cut 5,000 jobs
HOUSTON (AP) - Compaq Computer Corp. will cut 5,000 jobs, about 7 percent of its work force, and warned Thursday that its first-quarter earnings will fall far short of analysts' estimates.
Atheists to fight O'Hair's son for her remains
Atheists will fight Madalyn Murray O'Hair's Christian activist son for the right to bury the remains of the well-known atheist and two of her family members.
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CALVERT - For Sonny Moss, Calvert is Texas as it ought to be.
Airline's policy change will have little local impact
NEW YORK - Northwest Airlines' recent decision to stop paying commissions to Web sites that sell its tickets has reverberated throughout the travel industry, both online and off.
Man pleads innocent to stealing mail, destroying collection box
One man pleaded innocent in federal court to five counts of stealing mail and destroying a mail collection box.
Film, TV star Ann Sothern, 92, dies in Idaho
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ann Sothern, the blond beauty who starred as the movies' wisecracking "Maisie" and as the busybody Susie McNamara in the 1950s TV series "Private Secretary," has died at her Idaho home. She was 92.
3-year-old shoots station attendant
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - A policeman's 3-year-old son shot a gas station attendant in the face with his father's pistol, authorities said.
Cash bond for Clovis teacher stays same
CLOVIS, N.M. - At least a dozen children have been identified as alleged sexual molestation victims of a Clovis elementary school teacher after six more students have come forward and have been interviewed, 9th Judicial District Attorney Randall Harris said Friday.
Teen's family still struggling to understand
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Their voices breaking and eyes tearing, the father and aunt of a teen accused of carrying out a deadly high school shooting said Friday they are still struggling to understand the attack.
Italian official quarrels with Vatican Radio
VATICAN CITY (AP) - An Italian Cabinet minister raised the stakes Friday in a legal battle with the Vatican, threatening to cut off electricity to its radio station if it continues to allegedly fill the air with electromagnetic waves.
Yugoslavia remembers NATO victims
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Yugoslavia on Thursday declared March 24 - the day on which NATO launched air strikes against the country in 1999 - a national holiday of remembrance.
Appeals court says Ohio motto is acceptable
CINCINNATI (AP) - Ohio's motto, "With God, all things are possible," is constitutional and is not an endorsement of Christianity even though it quotes the words of Jesus, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Bush defends tax cuts, addresses base closings
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Oval Office smells of fresh paint. Staffers haven't printed business cards yet. And President George W. Bush tells visitors he's been too busy to select a design for the rug in his office, so he's making do with President Reagan's old carpet.
Detectors save office of Guymon fire chief
GUYMON, Okla. - Fortunately, the Guymon Fire Department followed its own advice on having a working smoke detector.
Simulated livestock epidemic illustrates high costs
WASHINGTON ,- Three months before Britain's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, top health officials in the United States, Mexico and Canada conducted a dress rehearsal to test their ability to respond to a similar epidemic.
Maker of video-games, Okawa, dies
TOKYO (AP) - Isao Okawa, the man credited with expanding Sega's video-games business only to see it fall behind rivals Sony and Nintendo, died Friday. He was 74.
A dizzying variety fuels Hispanics' rise
They are united by language, but do not always understand each other. They came to America ages ago, and yesterday. They are of every race, yet passionately claim to be their own race, or even none.
Largent says he'll run for governor
TULSA, Okla. - U.S. Rep. Steve Largent confirmed Friday that he plans to run for governor in 2002, saying he's ready to come home and make a difference in Oklahoma.
Amtrak president afraid of greater federal control
WASHINGTON - A federal panel weighing Amtrak's future is proposing "a new federal bureaucracy" to manage passenger rail, the railway's president wrote Friday in a letter critical of the idea.
Georgia farmers mull state's offer of cash payments for not irrigating
DAWSON, Ga. - With Georgia looking at its fourth straight summer of drought, the state is holding a no-irrigation auction: It is offering to pay farmers NOT to water their fields.
Astronauts load trash, laundry for trip home
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts shoved the international space station into a higher orbit Saturday and finished stuffing trash, dirty laundry and old equipment into a cargo carrier for return to Earth.
Brazil tries to save rig without loss of lives
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A crippled oil rig slipped deeper into the south Atlantic on Friday, as federal petroleum giant Petrobras weighed the risks of trying to go aboard to prevent a spill of the 400,000 gallons of oil on board.
Bush ponders end to ABA judicial screening role
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration may end the American Bar Association's half-century role in evaluating nominees to the federal bench, government sources said Saturday.
Report: Consumers fall further behind on debt payments
Consumers fell further behind on their mortgage and credit card payments in the final months of 2000, lenders reported Thursday - a troubling sign for the United States' already slowing economy.
Constitution affects campaign finance debate
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain says "only the most rabid opponents" of campaign finance legislation challenge the constitutionality of a ban on large, loosely regulated donations that course through the political system.
Sesame Place withdraws plans to sell beer, wine
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - You won't be buying beer on Sesame Street.
Cochran found verdict wait in `Puffy' case `excruciating'
NEW YORK (AP) - For a few long moments before Sean "Puffy" Combs learned his fate, teary-eyed jurors made veteran defense attorney Johnnie Cochran think the verdict might go against his client.
Johnson cuts $95 million from budget package
SANTA FE - Gov. Gary Johnson signed a more than $3.8 billion budget bill Friday to finance state government next year but cut $95 million from the measure using line-item vetoes.
Dona Ana County settles lawsuit by former inmate
LAS CRUCES (AP) - Dona Ana County has settled a lawsuit with a former inmate who said she was sexually assaulted by a jail employee.
Milestone Disney guest is Texan
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A Tinker Air Force Base employee got more than a pair of Mickey Mouse ears at Disneyland.
Reports point to Fed move to cut interest rates
WASHINGTON - The latest snapshots of economic a
Bush sets Hispanic caucus meeting
WASHINGTON - President Bush will meet next week with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a meeting some members say took too long to schedule.
Raw sewage spills into Miami's Biscayne Bay
MIAMI (AP) - Raw sewage spewed 4 feet into the air and swimming was banned after a tugboat ruptured a pipe and unleashed millions of gallons of waste into Biscayne Bay.
Magician fires off unusual defense
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Magician and drunken-driving defendant Randall Richman swears he wasn't drinking. But he did eat fire.
Great Dane stays with injured owner until help arrives
MUSKOGEE (AP) - A Muskogee woman says a Great Dane is her new hero after a horseback riding accident that knocked her unconscious.
Jury acquits Combs
NEW YORK - Rap impresario Sean "Puffy" Combs was acquitted Friday of taking an illegal handgun into a crowded Manhattan hip-hop club where three people were later wounded.
Glenn Hughes of Village People dies of cancer
NEW YORK (AP) - Glenn Hughes, a singer who performed as the mustachioed, leather-clad biker in the disco band the Village People, has died of lung cancer. He was 50.
Hungarian political prisoner, writer Gyula Obersovszky dies
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Gyula Obersovszky, a poet and journalist whose opposition to Soviet rule in 1956 brought him a death sentence that was commuted to life in prison after Western intellectuals intervened, died Thursday, the state-run news agency MTI reported.
Jet aborts takeoff, skids off runway
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - A Northwest Airlines plane went off a runway Saturday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after the pilot aborted the takeoff.
Frozen baby might keep fingers, toes
TORONTO (AP) - A feeding tube running from her nose, 13-month-old Erika Nordby babbled and played with a microphone Friday as her mother said the toddler might not lose any fingers or toes, despite being frozen and having her heart stop for two hours.
Judge denies retrial request
SANTA FE (AP) - A district judge has denied a convicted killer's request for a new murder trial.
Court splits islands between feuding states
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Seeking to settle a quarrel dating back to Arab tribal wars more than 100 years ago, the World Court on Friday awarded Bahrain the largest of a string of disputed islands in the Persian Gulf but gave Qatar smaller islands.
NASA lets Galileo continue orbiting
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA has extended its Galileo mission a third time, allowing the unmanned spacecraft to continue orbiting Jupiter until 2003, when it will make a fiery plunge into the planet's atmosphere.
Barrage fails to dislodge rebels
SHIPKOVICA, Macedonia - The army mounted a heavy artillery attack Friday to push ethnic Albanian rebels northward, but the scene in this hill town above Macedonia's second-largest city reflected a rebel force ready to stay put and step up their fight.
Oklahoma police agencies not joining in Amber Plan
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A year and a half after Oklahoma started using the Amber Plan to find missing children, more than 250 of the state's law enforcement agencies aren't part of it.
School overhaul compromise heading to governor
SANTA FE (AP) - A proposal to establish a new teacher licensing system and increase minimum teacher salaries statewide cleared the Legislature on Friday.
Reputed mobsters on trial in Philly
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino has lived a charmed life.
Mayor pro-tem confirms wine gift
CLOVIS, N.M. - Clovis City Commissioner and Mayor Pro-Tem John Schuller confirmed Friday that he received six bottles of wine from one of two bidders interested in purchasing treated wastewater from the city for use at a proposed multi-million-dollar power plant.
Sharon: Arafat must rein in Palestinian terrorists
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a message sent over the weekend that further easing of the closure of the Palestinian areas would not be possible until the Palestinians crack down on terror, Sharon's office said Saturday.
The luck o' the Irish
DUBLIN, Ireland - To the disbelief of Dubliners and their foreign guests, fears of foot-and-mouth disease have driven St. Patrick's Day out of Ireland.
Six candidates seek mayoralty of huge, diverse Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES - It takes a special kind of politician to lead this sprawling, fractured metropolis, with its newly arrived immigrants, millionaire movie stars and everything in between.
United plans expansion
DENVER (AP) - United Airlines still plans a $100 million expansion at Denver International Airport, despite its parent company's plans to trim $200 million from its budget, a company vice president said.
Everglades water level low as Florida drought continues
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) - Tour operator Jesse Kennon skims his airboat over a shallow trail of liquid mud flanked by brown saw grass, then stops and points 100 yards away to an island of hardwoods.
Governor's tax cut dies as Legislature adjourns
SANTA FE - Time ran out on the Legislature's 60-day session, and Gov. Gary Johnson never received what he had hoped for: a last-minute compromise cutting income taxes across the board by $72 million.
Ford settles 5 New Mexico lawsuits over alleged traffic deaths
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Ford Motor Co. has settled five lawsuits over alleged traffic deaths or injuries blamed on defective Firestone tires on Ford vehicles, and the tiremaker also has settled one of the five lawsuits.
Kincanon - Junell
Summer Kincanon and Michael Junell, both of Amarillo, were married Saturday, March 10, at St. Hyacinth's Catholic Church. The Rev. Pat Carruthers officiated.
Vaughn - Pucket
Franci Aileen Vaughn of Amarillo and Andrew Pucket of Albuquerque, N.M., were married Saturday, March 17, at Bible Baptist Temple. Dr. Curtis Goldman officiated.
Mr. and Mrs. Bustos
Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo D. Bustos of 2410 N. Seminole St., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a Mass, dinner reception and dance Saturday, March 17, at the Amarillo Civic Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Winders
Dale and Marie Winders of Dimmitt are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a casual reception today, March 18, at the Lextron Building in Dimmitt, one mile north of the stoplight on Highway 385.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Bryant
Dennis and Barbara O'Bryant of Amarillo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner with family and friends Saturday, March 17, at the Country Barn.
Wright - Dahl
Mollie Marie Wright and Kirk Lynn Dahl were married Saturday, Dec. 30, at First United Methodist Church in Dumas. The Rev. John Wagoner officiated.
Harder - Bremer
Lee Anne Harder of Hereford and Chad Andrew Bremer of Beeville were married Saturday, March 17, at First Baptist Church in Hereford. The Rev. Richard Bremer and the Rev. Terry Cosby officiated.
Mr. and Mrs. Snider
Marvin and Marjieann Snider of Amarillo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception Saturday, March 17, at Southwest Baptist Church.
Edwards - Williams
Holly Edwards of Amarillo and Aaron Williams of Fritch were married Friday, March 16, at Trinity Fellowship Church. The Rev. Tom Lane officiated.
Smith - Allm
Julia Patience Smith of Goldsboro, N.C., and Shane Timothy Allm of Amarillo were married Oct. 5 in Goldsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Peres
Dick and Janice Peres of Port Aransas are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip with their children, spouses and grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Shedenhelm
Roy and BettyLou Shedenhelm of 8050 Tipton St. are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner with friends and a trip to New Mexico followed by a family reunion on June 16.
Loyd - Crow
Stephanae' Dawn Loyd and Weston Riley Crow, both of Canyon, were married Saturday, March 17, at Southwest Church of Christ. Howard K. Batson officiated.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollen
Walter R. "Bob'' and Maxine Rollen of 3613 Wayne St. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a family dinner Saturday, March 17.
Heckler - Crouch
Shelley Anne Heckler and Joseph Micah Crouch, both of Amarillo, were married at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Regi Fowler officiated.
Case - Whitley
Kristy Case of Groom and Evan Whitley of Pilot Point were married Saturday, March 17, at First Baptist Church in Vernon. The Rev. Roger Deerinwater, pastor of First Baptist Church in Archer City, officiated.
Burdett - Pickle
Dorie Susan Burdett and Joseph Benton Pickle, both of Austin, were married Saturday, March 17, at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. The Rev. Dr. Douglas Fletcher of Westhills Presbyterian Church in Austin officiated.
Reese - Gaiko
Krisann Elizabeth Reese and Jason Robert Gaiko, both of Dallas, were married Oct. 27 at The Vista on Seward Hill in Austin. The Rev. Michael Boles officiated.
Cadillac Escalade gives sense of roominess
If the big, in-your-face grille on the 2002 Cadillac Escalade isn't enough to grab your attention, the V8 just inches from that grille certainly will.
Sport utility craze affects variety of people
A surprising variety of people are getting in on the sport utility vehicle craze. Dealers said there doesn't seem to be a "typical SUV buyer.''
Choose engine with power that is just right
We are considering the purchase of a Volkswagen Passat station wagon. Our question is whether the six-cylinder engine would last longer than the four-cylinder engine if driven under the same conditions.
PANHANDLE COUNCIL OF CAR CLUBS MONTHLY MEETING, 7 p.m. Second floor, Amarillo National Bank, Plaza II.
'Hounds outslug Buffs, 21-10, even division mark
A funny thing happened at the Eastern New Mexico-West Texas A&M baseball game Saturday afternoon - a football game broke out.
Buffs split doubleheader with Eastern New Mexico
Judging by Friday's doubleheader between West Texas A&M and Eastern New Mexico, perhaps a case of March Madness has spread to the baseball field, as well.
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Coast Guard investigating overturned drilling rig near Morgan City
No injuries reported
Published: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.
THIBODAUX -- An oil drilling rig overturned today in a Morgan City canal near U.S 90, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
No injuries were reported as a result of the incident which happened in the Charenton navigational canal south of U.S. 90.
Investigators have not yet determined how much fuel was on board the mobile inland drilling unit, which has a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel capacity, but have determined the rig is not leaking fuel at this time.
The Coast Guard is currently prohibiting vessel traffic from coming within 1,000 yards on either side of the incident. A 500-foot containment boom has been deployed near the rig as a precaution
The cause of the incident remains under investigation.
Franklin-based T. Moore Services owned the rig, which was being taken to a demolition and scrap yard when it overturned, according to an Associated Press report.
A phone call made to Tina Moore, the owner of T. Moore Services, was not immediately returned.
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