BELTON — Early voting for the Belton school district’s $31.7 million bond referendum ends today. The total number of votes cast at all of the early voting sites was 1,225 as of Friday.

Flu researchers will provide an update this week about an on-going study that examines if vaccinating children reduces the spread of influenza in a community. The National Institutes of Health funded study is a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine and Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Clinic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush proposed a $2.4 trillion budget on Monday, slicing scores of programs from prisons to arts education in the face of record federal deficits and the costs of war. His budget chief warned a fresh request for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach $50 billion. The election-year blueprint would pour funds into the military, domestic security and some education and health initiatives. It provides the first dollars for what ultimately could be a hugely expensive effort to visit Mars, and renews his call for making permanent the tax cuts he has shoved through Congress.

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(AP) - The chief federal regulator of broadcasting said Monday he was outraged by the Super Bowl halftime show in which Justin Timberlake tore off part of Janet Jackson’s costume, exposing her breast, and said he was ordering an immediate investigation. Timberlake blamed a “wardrobe malfunction,” but Federal Communications Commission chief Michael Powell called it “a classless, crass and deplorable stunt.”

During the last two school years District 13-5A has comprised Temple, Belton, Copperas Cove, Bryan, College Station A&M Consolidated, and Waco, and it was announced Monday that they

The University Interscholastic League

It was 17 days ago that the Temple boys basketball team had its District 13-5A opener rained out at Copperas Cove

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