Capping off Black History Month, King Kids performance group of Fort Worth sang songs and recited civil rights speeches in front of a packed auditorium at Meridith-Dunbar Elementary School Friday afternoon. Thousands of students from Garcia, Scott and Meridith-Dunbar elementaries enjoyed the entertainment, as well as the underlying purposes stressed in the performance: peace, love and equality for all. Charmion Johnson Polk, a health and physical education teacher with the Forth Worth school district, led the group of 21 in singing various songs, including the national anthem,

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Scott and White remained on the highest level of need for Type O blood Friday, a situation mostly blamed on the ice storm earlier in the week. Mindi DeShazo, the Scott and White Blood Center donor recruiter, said weather conditions that limit travel usually result in less blood being donated. She said Scott and White had a lot of people at the hospital using blood this week, but the amounts of blood donations were down. Ms. DeShazo said donations had not picked up significantly since the end of the storm. By JAKE LONG

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)Iraq agreed Friday to begin destroying its Al Samoud 2 missiles within 24 hours, Iraqi sources said. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, who set the Saturday deadline, called the decision

AUSTIN (AP) With Texas facing a $10 billion budget shortfall, the rivalry between state workers, teachers and university employees heated up Friday, each group battling for a share of the limited money. Some state employees, who earlier this year lost out on pay raises because of the fiscal crunch, believe any budget cuts or money-saving changes to insurance programs should also be applied to insurance programs for school employees, higher education employees and retirees. Gary Anderson, executive director of the 13,000-member Texas Public Employees Association, said Friday that Texas should make state employees

SPACE CENTER, Houston(AP) In the final minutes of their lives, Columbia

When pitcher Ian Pecoraro starts the first game of a doubleheader, the Temple College baseball team wins. However, the Leopards are finding the second half of such twinbills more difficult. Good hitting and right-hander Pecoraro

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Even under gloomy, gray skies, the athletes managed to shine at the Temple Relays. Harker Heights

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