Bush fills 4 Cabinet slots for Bush era Cabinet lineup
President elect Bush named Rod Paige for Education Gale Norton for Interior Anthony Princips for Veterans Affairs and Gov Tommy Thompson for Health and Human Services These picks include a black Houston educator a former Colorado attorney general a Vietnam veteran and a Wisconsin governor Read New Year notes as Bush returns to Texas for the holiday weekend Planned Parenthood and NARAL pledge opposition to Thompson over abortion rights.
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Four anti aircraft guns get new home on USS Cabot
A veteran notes the relocation of four anti aircraft guns aboard the USS Cabot as crucial for prolonging the ships and Lexington life. Regulators clear AT&T to sell The Salt Lake Tribune to Media News Group. Iranian caviar returns for New Year’s Eve after embargo easing. A passenger storms a British Airways cockpit as a jet with 398 aboard endures two violent nosedives. The Millennium Dome becomes Britain 2000 centerpiece amid praise and mockery. Israelis and Palestinians face tough choices after years of near conflict and fear.
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Lights come down at Corpus Christi Super 8 Motell
Adrian Ramos, an employee at the Super 8 Motel on Shoreline, takes down Christmas lights Friday in Corpus Christi. He says there were more than 1,000 lights to remove, noting it took longer to put them up than to take them down.
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Eastern snowstorm set to merge and bring heavy snowfall
Two storms merging off North Carolina and from the Midwest threaten the Northeast with up to a foot of snow and blizzard conditions. The system moving toward Philadelphia and Boston could yield the heaviest snow in five years while Texans still endure outages. Shovels snowblowers and salt fly off shelves as residents brace for the forecasted snowfall.
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Odessa cancels New Year downtown First Night party
Odessa officials canceled the First Night celebration downtown for this year ending a long running annual event begun in the early 1990s. Police will patrol the holiday while families lose alcohol free options for New Year’s Eve.
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Eye on Justice in 2000 Odessa Courts Review
Odessa American recaps top court stories of 2000 in Permian Basin. Key cases include Leon Hampton Jr.’s 17 year sentence for the March 1999 murder of William Nance after a six hour jury verdict and Betty Culver’s life sentence for killing her 18 year old son Todaryl in December 1995 following a trial with hundreds of witnesses.
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Regional manhunt tightens for Texas prison escapees
The largest group to escape a Texas prison remains at large as a Southwest-wide search intensifies. Ringleader George Rivas, described as highly dangerous, is suspected by El Paso officials to head the gang. Victims and prosecutors fear what comes next.
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