FORT HOOD - The salute battery boomed 19 times Friday at Cooper Field as the Army bade farewell to Gen. Leon J. LaPorte at a retirement ceremony held in his honor. LaPorte, who spent nearly 13 years of his 38-year Army career at Fort Hood, trooped the line mounted on horseback with his host, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Army chief of staff. Following close behind were Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, commander of III Corps and Fort Hood, and Command Sgt. Maj. Neil L. Ciotola.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Oil prices appear headed back toward $70 a barrel, a level not seen since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and sporadic shortages sent gasoline at the pump above $3 a gallon nationwide. While last summer

Haelie Marie Pisciotta, the baby girl from Belton who underwent a four-organ transplant last year, finally arrived home Friday, after spending more than eight months in Cincinnati, Ohio recovering from the operation. Kellie Pisciotta, Haelie

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran successfully test-fired a missile that can avoid radar and hit several targets simultaneously using multiple warheads, the military said Friday. Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards, did not specify the missile

BELTON - More than 500 Belton High School students voiced their opinions Friday afternoon about proposed immigration laws that have sparked demonstrations nationwide. During an authorized after-school rally at Tiger Field, students expressed their concerns over the stadium

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Lauren Eckermann recently received a signed photograph from the Houston Astros

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WACO - The Temple baseball team turned Friday

BELTON - Daniel Moose is certain he

BELTON - Every time Mary Hardin-Baylor presented McMurry with a problem, the Indians had an answer. And then some. Greg Erickson and Derek David hit back-to-back run-scoring doubles with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to send McMurry to a 6-4 come-from-behind win in the opener of the three-game American Southwest Conference West Division series Friday afternoon at Red Murff Field.

KILLEEN - Freshman Perry Jimenez started, junior ace Tressie Keilman closed and the Temple Tem-Cats started the second round of District 13-5A win the same way they did the first half - with a win over Killeen Shoemaker. Jimenez went 3 2/3 innings, giving up just two runs. But Keilman (8-6) picked up the win, shutting down the Lady Wolves the rest of the way in the 3-2 win.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Before the madness began, before the world came calling to their campus, hardly anyone outside of Fairfax, Va., knew about the George Mason Patriots. Let

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Baby blue is their color. Black and blue is their attitude. At some point early in coach Ben Howland