President-elect Barack Obama will be faced with enormous challenges, including a deficit ballooning out of control. The Office of Management and Budget projects a fiscal 2009 deficit of $482 billion, plus $80 billion in war costs, plus $180 billion we quietly borrow from the Social Security Trust Fund every year -- not to mention the $700 billion package Congress passed to rescue the credit ind...
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Angelina County Jail death under investigation...
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Rangers are investigating the death of a 28-year-old Lufkin man who was found unconscious in the Angelina County Jail.
Texas Ranger Pete Maskunas said Thomas Joseph Kirksey was unresponsive after being taken from the jail to Memorial Health System of East Texas, where he was pronounced dead yesterday.
The Lufkin Daily News reports an autopsy has been order...
TV switch leaves NASCAR unhappy...
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Showing affection can lower stress...
Couples who spend more time hugging and kissing have lower levels of stress hormones in their bodies, new research suggests.
A Swiss study has found proof that intimacy improves psychological health - but you need to have a close relationship, preferably a marriage, to benefit.
Researchers from the University of Zurich in Switzerland studied 51 mostly married German couples for one ...
6 months on, United Nations steps up support to Wenchuan survivors...
"This period of recovery where people begin to rebuild their lives and communities is crucial. The United Nations is working closely with Government partners at the central and local levels to help people get the support they need," said Bernard Coquelin, UN Resident Coordinator in China ad interim and Representative of the UN Population Fund.
The UN system in China has mobilized over US$...
Recalls Of Lead-Tainted Toys Drop Sharply...
POSTED: 6:40 am CST November 12, 2008UPDATED: 7:06 am CST November 12, 2008
The lead-tainted toy scare that hammered the industry and frightened parents last holiday season has eased, but there are still concerns that problem toys may still be out there."I don't think at this point that anyone who makes a toy is looking to save a little bit extra on the margin by using cheap materials,"...login to post comments
In brief : Flu shots available...
Wed. November 12, 2008; Posted: 09:13 AM Click here for today’s top stocks. Nov 12, 2008 (The Sun News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- GOHE PowerRating -- SOUTH STRAND
South Strand Ambulatory Care Center will offer flu shots 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the emergency department through Nov. 22.
The vaccine is available to individuals age 16 and ol...
'American Idol' Gives Back Over $64 Million To Charities...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "American Idol " has allocated more than $64 million in grants to six U.S. and international charities from contributions to its "Idol Gives Back" fundraising event.
The popular Fox singing competition's star-studded gala, held at the Kodak Theatre in April, featured musical performances by Miley Cyrus , Fergie , Heart and Snoop Dogg . Brad Pitt , Reese Witherspoon , B...
Summit Industrial Products Becomes the First Company in North ......
According to a recent article in Machinery Lubrication1, it is estimated that a significant proportion (60 percent or greater) of U.S. food and beverage companies are not using incidental food-contact lubricants. This is important as only lubricants with incidental food contact may be safely used on machinery used for producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging...
OAK Horizons Incorporates Patent-Pending HIM Knowledge Base into ......
From the Wires OAK Horizons Incorporates Patent-Pending HIM Knowledge Base into Online Medical Transcription Curriculum Online educator leads Industry in preparing students for employment opportunities with BenchMark KB(TM) knowledge base
OAK Horizons deploys the BenchMark KBâ„¢ knowledge base into their online curriculum and online continuing education programs for medical transcriptioni...
Paulson: Rescue package not for automakers...
Asked about Democratic congressional leaders' plan to rush financial aid to the industry, Paulson cautioned that "any solution has got to be leading to long-term viability" for auto companies.
He said Congress could try to make funding more available to the auto industry as part of a $25 billion loan program approved in September to develop fuel-efficient vehicles.
House Speaker Na...
Responsible Dairy Symposium Opens Dialogue on Dairy Chain ......
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New Orthopedic Oncology Fellowship Program at Mount Clemens Brings ......
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Stocks skid on news gov't won't buy banks' assets...
Stocks skid on news gov't won't buy banks' assets
NEW YORK (AP) -- A disheartened Wall Street fell for the third straight session Wednesday as investors absorbed another series of dismal corporate reports and news that the government won't buy banks' soured mortgage assets after all. The Dow Jones industrials skidded 410 points, and all the major indexes dropped more than 4 percent.<...
Expert testifies that drugs given to patient in organ procurement ......
A transplant expert testified Wednesday morning in San Luis Obispo that the type of drugs given to a patient at the center of an attempted organ procurement case that has garnered national attention violated the standard of practice.
Dr. Clarence Foster, a transplant specialist at UC Irvine Medical Center, said from the witness stand that Bay Area surgeon Hootan Roozrokh “Practiced below ...
After Calif. loss, gays get right to wed in Conn....
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$nbsp; Peg Oliviera, and Jen Vickrey, left, kiss to seal their marriage after they were married by Appellate Judge Herbert Grundel outside City Hall in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 shortly after a Superior Court Judge ruled on the legality of marriages between same sex couple are legal. (AP Photo/Bob Ch...Prank NY Times: `All the news we hope to print'...
NEW YORK -- Commuters nationwide found out during Wednesday's morning rush hour that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended and global warming, health care spending and the economy's problems were on their way to being solved.
On behalf of a collective of liberal activists, 1,000 volunteers across the country handed out 1.2 million copies of a spoof of The New York Times, dated July...