The opinions expressed Friday night at the Cultural Activities Center in Temple were not necessarily those of the people who said them. The pun on the common disclaimer opened the 30th annual Rank Amateur Night. The two-hour parade of satirical jokes and mini-musicals ridiculed last year

AUSTIN (AP) - A citizen member of the state

BELTON - Parker Davis has defended his crown. For the second year in a row, the 14-year-old Oenaville 4-H Club member captured grand champion market steer honors at the Bell County Youth Fair and Livestock Show.

The Temple City Council will take a new step into the digital age March 1 when its meetings begin to go on the city Web site in streaming video. Alan DeLoera of the city Information Technology Department said the new feature will allow people to view replays of the council meetings online. The feature will also allow those watching online to simply click their mouse on a particular agenda item and watch a replay of just that item without having to view prior elements of the video.

MIAMI (AP) - Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he

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LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY - In a girls basketball game that had 14 ties or lead changes in the first three quarters, Friday night

COLLEGE STATION (AP) - Former Texas A&M basketball coach Shelby Metcalf, whose homespun humor often overshadowed his penchant for winning games, died after a long illness. He was 76. Metcalf died Thursday at a College Station hospital, the university said.

BELTON - Mary Hardin-Baylor enjoyed its baseball home opener so much, the Crusaders decided to extend it another day. UMHB and Texas-Brownsville were knotted at 5-5 through 12 innings early Friday evening when darkness fell on Red Murff Field, forcing the game to be suspended until today. The opener of the three-game series will resume at 11:30 a.m. today, followed by the regularly scheduled doubleheader.

BELTON - Only two cowboys came out of Friday night