3:30 p.m. Thursday Nov. 29, 2007 - As I watched the traffic roar down Loop 363, I could mistakenly believe it was an average fall day in Temple. The mall across the road was bustling with Christmas shoppers, children were on their way home from school, the better part of a normal work day was coming to an end. But this day was anything but ordinary, there was a woman missing. Mattie Shoaf, 70 years old, diagnosed with Alzheimer´s in June, had gone missing from Temple Mall on Wednesday night. Temple police were into their 20th hour of the search. The chill promised for the evening was starting to creep into the afternoon air.

While the economy may be cooling down, the restaurant industry in Temple is just heating up. Over the past few months, several new restaurants have settled into the Temple area, and packed parking lots offer no inclination that business is slow.

Thousands of people with dreams of Christmas are expected to turn out this year for Temple´s annual Christmas parade, set to begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Rep. Dianne White Delisi, R-Temple, will be the parade marshal. Ms. Delisi announced her intention earlier this year to retire from the Texas House of Representatives.

DOVER, Del. - One demon exorcised. One to go. Burdened by two years worth of disappointment, fifth-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor unloaded on sixth-ranked Wesley, burying the Wolverines - and past memories - with a 27-10 victory Saturday afternoon in an NCAA Division III quarterfinal game at Miller Stadium.

VICTORIA - Anybody, anytime. That seems to be the appropriate theme for the fifth-ranked Salado Eagles this season and Saturday night was no different.

Missouri´s pain turned out to be Oklahoma´s pleasure. The top-ranked Tigers´ Bowl Championship Series dreams died Saturday night at the hands - and feet - of the Sooners in the Big 12 Conference championship game.

BELTON - “It was an unusual game and I´m happy we won,” Mary Hardin-Baylor men´s basketball coach Ken DeWeese said after his ninth-ranked Crusaders posted a 90-81 victory over No. 23 Mississippi College on Saturday afternoon at Mayborn Campus Center. “I´m more concerned about the sister of one of my players (junior guard Tim Lytle) than anything else,” he continued, referring to a medical emergency that stopped action with 2:26 remaining in the game.