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Hurlers dealt in winter trades

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:03:16 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS The winter meetings heated up even more yesterday, with Milwaukee landing pitchers Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins, Baltimore acquiring Kevin Millwood in a trade with Texas and the Yankees completing the three-team, seven-player swap that...
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Tradition minus mystique

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:03:16 GMT

Some of our top elected officials took time out yesterday from the weighty issues of the day to push a bill that would ban promotion of the BCS title game as the national championship of college football.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

UPI NewsTrack TopNews

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:02:20 GMT

MADISON, Wis. , Dec. 10 (UPI) -- People in the U.S. midsection had numbing temperatures Thursday and those in the Northeast watched heavy lake-effect snow blanket the ground, forecasters said.
Source: United Press International

From: Blogging The Bombers

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:58:20 GMT

The Winter Meetings closed with a quiet Thursday, as Boston tried to finalize a deal to send Mike Lowell to Texas, the Astros added Pedro Feliz and Brandon Lyon and other teams worked toward making their first moves of the winter. The Yankees?
Source: New York Daily News

TDJC moves to fire prison guard after escape

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:56:18 GMT

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Source: Houston Chronicle

Gateway Energy Announces New Credit Facility

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:48:37 GMT

HOUSTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway Energy Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GNRG) today announced that it has entered into a new $6.0 million secured revolving credit facility, with an original borrowing base of $3.0 million, with...
Source: PR Newswire

Feds: Asarco settlements will clean up 80 sites

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:48 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) -- Environmental settlements with copper miner Asarco LLC will pay for cleanup at 80 polluted sites in 19 states, mostly in the West, U.S. Justice Department officials said Thursday.
Source: ReadingEagle.com

Why All Living Congressmen Should Be Sent on the Slow Boat to Mauritius, Forever

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:11 GMT

This is worse than a waste of time. This is an infringement on freedom. The NCAA can run any system they want. They can choose a national champion by random selection if they like. This bill tells them that they must determine a champion by playoff.
Source: Reason

Quoted in 'DeMint backs 2010 Texas candidate'

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:22:19 GMT

Jim DeMint said in The Politico:

I don’t expect the people in Texas, or in any other state, to vote the way I suggest they vote ... But what we hope we can do is bring to the country’s attention is there are great choices out there, regardless of their party.

Quoted in 'Longleaf pines: New weapon in battle against climate change'

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:51:02 GMT

said in Plenty:

The original longleaf ecosystem was once one of America’s largest, stretching from the eastern Virginia plains to central Florida and thence westward to Texas. Ancient in origin, it comprised — and its scattered old-growth remnants still comprise — one of the biologically richest habitats in North America.

Photo from AP Photo

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas arrives at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.

Photo from AP Photo

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:34:20 GMT

Texas A&M interim President R. Bowen Loftin, left, Parliament of India member M.S. Swaminathan, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa, right, listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates speak at a memorial service...

Texas Longhorns 2005 National Champions

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