In the future, nano-machines and micro-robotics could help cure cancer and other fatal diseases, and these machines will need mechanics and programmers.
One group of area junior engineers is getting a head start. Four the last three years a team of home-school children from Temple and Belton have competed in the First Lego League robotics competition, putting custom-built robots through their paces in a task-oriented obstacle courses.
FORT HOOD - The First Cavalry Division lowered its eyes and bowed heads during a Thursday memorial service to honor 15 soldiers killed in Iraq during November and December.
Families of the deceased, their friends and soldiers of the rear detachment filled the First Cavalry Division Chapel on Battalion Avenue during a 90-minute service that heard eulogies for the departed delivered by their comrades.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two Shiite militia commanders said Thursday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has stopped protecting radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
CAMERON - The body of Sharon Rene Thompson was found about noon Thursday by volunteer searcher Danny McKelvy of Bell County, said Milam County Sheriff Charlie West.
The body was found under a brush pile in a slough about 300 yards from the low-water crossing where her boyfriend DALLAS (AP) - Another wave of snow and freezing rain inched toward Texas on Thursday, and forecasters warned that roads and homes still thawing from a deadly winter front could be iced again by the weekend.
The latest storm system, expected to drop several inches of snow in West Texas, left some cities scrambling to restock sand and de-icing chemicals nearly depleted after combatting icy roads that closed schools and canceled hundreds of flights across Texas this week.
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sportsHARKER HEIGHTS - A creatively realistic but mathematically challenged individual might have to take his or her shoes off to count the factors that contributed to the Temple Wildcats
BELTON - College Station A&M Consolidated can use its height to get points in the paint or its sharpshooters to score from the perimeter.
Or in the case of Thursday COLLEGE STATION - College Station A&M Consolidated is expected to be the dominant presence today and Saturday in the District 13-5A Swimming and Diving Championships at Texas A&M
IRVING (AP) - Nearly two weeks after the Dallas Cowboys
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obituariesfuneral noticesCOX, Louise L., 66, Temple, 11 a.m., Scanio-Harper Funeral Home, Temple. Burial in Bellwood Memorial Park.
DANEK, Annie, 86, Jarrell, 10 a.m., Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Corn Hill. Burial in Holy Trinity Cemetery. Gabriels Funeral home, Georgetown, in charge.
HENRY, Rich |
