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Executives from the Big 3 automakers return to Washington this week to make another pitch to Congress for a $25 billion financial aid package they say will keep them from possibly filing bankruptcy.
The Big 3 - Ford, Chrysler and General Motors - have suffered heavy criticism for making non-competitive products, corporate executives´ high salaries and using private jets to fly to Washington when their companies are bleeding cash.
Central Texas´ leading independent bank has said “no thanks” to the U.S. government´s offer of bailout money, the bank´s top officer said Monday.
Extraco Corp. announced that it will not seek funds available through the Capital Purchase Program, which is part of the federal government´s Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP) to inject capital into the U.S. banking system.
WASHINGTON - The selection of experienced centrists - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones - to head President-elect Barack Obama´s national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign.
Obama´s choices signal a more pragmatic, less ideological approach to asserting American leadership in the world. In announcing on Monday that Clinton is his choice for secretary of state and that Gates has agreed to remain as defense secretary - with Jones as national security adviser in the White House - Obama said he has intentionally surrounded himself with “strong personalities and strong opinions.” And he made clear that when push comes to shove, he will be the one to make the tough calls.
WASHINGTON - After decades of failed efforts to reshape the nation´s health-care system, a consensus appears to be emerging in Washington about how to achieve the elusive goal of providing medical insurance to all Americans.
The answer, say leading groups of businesses, hospitals, doctors, labor unions and insurance companies - as well as senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the new Barack Obama administration - is unprecedented government intervention to create a system of universal protection.
FORT HOOD - Wanna be an Aggie?
The Texas A&M University System is making it easier for soldiers and their families who are not Texas residents to obtain a college degree.
GATESVILLE - In opening arguments in the capital murder trial of Megan Lewis-Grant, her attorney said she wanted her children back but not over her ex-husband's dead body.
Ms. Lewis-Grant is accused of planning the murder of Michael Grant with her 16-year-old son and her boyfriend, John Hopkins, in September 2007.
sports
BELTON - The aberrant group that had been posing as the Mary Hardin-Baylor men´s basketball team - replete with defensive lapses and timid offensive play - was nowhere to be seen Monday night.
This time, the Crusaders finally arrived.
Class 5A Division II Region II final
Copperas Cove (12-1) vs. Klein Oak (10-1), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Corsicana´s Tiger Stadium
BELTON - Mary Hardin-Baylor held a second-half lead for the fourth consecutive game and this time, the Lady Crusaders weren´t about to let it go.
UMHB built a 10-point halftime advantage, then foiled an attempted rally by Ozarks (Ark.) on the way to a 72-59 victory Monday night at Mayborn Campus Center.
BELTON - The Mary Hardin-Baylor coaching staff challenged its offensive and defensive lines last week to be more physical and the result was a man-handling of Wesley (Del.) in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs.
Now the fourth-ranked Crusaders (11-1) will need a similar effort to get past another perennially strong opponent.
HOUSTON - Mario Williams, Steve Slaton and the Houston Texans put on quite a show in their Monday Night Football debut.
Williams had a season-high three sacks and forced a fumble and Slaton ran for a pair of touchdowns to lead the Texans to a 30-17 win over the slumping Jacksonville Jaguars.
AUSTIN - Lance Armstrong will ride in the 2009 Tour de France, marking the first time he will compete in that race and the Giro d´Italia in the same year.
“I´m committed to riding for the best guy,” Armstrong said Monday, acknowledging the taxing schedule could leave him riding in a supporting role in France.
