WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats now running Congress will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday, suggesting they could deny him the money should he call for additional troops.
Yet Pelosi WASHINGTON (AP) - Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released Sunday.
The problem was the Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life and didn SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - From corn fields to Wall Street, enthusiasm for ethanol is at an all-time high. But not everyone is enthusiastic.
Demand for the corn-based fuel is driving up the cost of feed corn, making it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs.
Scientists reported Sunday they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in the fluid that cushions babies in the womb and produced a variety of tissue types from these cells - sidestepping the controversy over destroying embryos for research.
Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported the stem cells they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells. They reported they were able to extract the stem cells without harm to mother or fetus and turn their discovery into several different tissue cell types, including brain, liver and bone.
SPARKS - The evidence of Jim and Miriam Ferguson's lives in Bell County are still very much in evidence here.
There is the Ferguson Home at Seventh and French in Temple, and their 'honeymoon cottage' on Sixth and Penelope Streets in Belton. The Bell County Museum has an extensive collection of Miriam Ferguson letters, doc uments, photos and memorabilia.
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sportsPHILADELPHIA (AP) - Some of his teammates couldn
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - A new era of college football begins tonight with No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Florida playing a game that
SEATTLE (AP) - If Bill Parcells needs a reason to come back in 2007, he has plenty to choose from.
Can he really leave the Dallas Cowboys after getting this close to a playoff breakthrough?
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Bill Belichick and Tom Brady won three Super Bowls with Eric Mangini on their side.
The Patriots coach taught his former student that maybe he can win another without him - especially with his quarterback in championship form.
AUSTIN (AP) - For a program that counts itself among the nation
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obituariesfuneral noticesAFFERBACK, Insoon Cho, 72, Copperas Cove, 9 a.m., Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Killeen. Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home, Copperas Cove, in charge.
COFFER, Jacobe, 84, Moody, 10 a.m., Moody Cemetery. Scanio-Harper Funeral Home, in charge.
FEATHER, Bonny C., 84, Palestine, 1 p.m., First Christian Church, Palestine. Bailey & Foster Funeral Home, Palestine, in charge.
IRWIN, Ancel, 78, Belton, 2 p.m., Maxdale Cemetery. Harper-Talasek Funeral Home, Temple.
LEWIS, Max Everett, 46, Dallas, 11 a.m., Prestonwood Baptist Church, Dallas. Dallas Funeral Home, North Richland Hills, in charge.
OWINGS, Jessie E., 81, Cameron, 11 a.m., Oak Hill Cemetery, Cameron. Marek-Burns-Laywell Funeral Home, Cameron, in charge.
PLOUGH, Paul Henry, 62, Davilla, 2 p.m., Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Killeen. Temple Funeral Home in charge.
SPILLER, Clarence Sr., 72, Belton, 3 p.m., North Belton Cemetery. Dossman Funeral Home, Belton, in charge.
TRUSTY, Master Sgt. Larry, 58, 2 p.m., Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home, Killeen. Burial at a later date, Arlington, Va.
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