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Northwest Louisiana pastors rearranged services around LSU’s Sugar Bowl game against Oklahoma urging early worship and gathering fans to watch. They say the Bible has no hour for services and the plan lets worship and football coexist.
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Northwest
Louisiana
LSU
University of Oklahoma
Utah considers ending firing squads for executions
Utah lawmakers propose bills to abolish firing squads and allow condemned inmates to be executed only by lethal injection, with executions barred on Sundays Mondays or holidays. Three death row inmates have chosen firing squad. The Aliens are not related.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Ron Allen
Sheryl Allen
House
Senate
Las Cruces Bans Campaign Signs Before Caucus
Las Cruces warns Democratic candidates Wesley Clark and Howard Dean to remove signs from commercial property. City ordinance bars political signs no earlier than 90 days before an election, and officials argue the Feb 3 caucus is not a legal election, prompting sign removals.
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Las Cruces
N.M
Wesley Clark
Howard Dean
Avalanche blocks 1-70 in Colorado
An avalanche buried westbound Interstate 70 through Vail Pass with about six feet of snow. No one was believed to be caught in the slide four miles from the pass summit as traffic was rerouted and crews cleared the highway to remove avalanche risk.
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Denver
Vail Pass
State Transportation Department
GOP bills strain states rights in new legislative push
Republicans back bills claiming to defend states rights while pushing actions that could curb federal power. The measures aim to shape funding and duties but face questions about scope and implications for state sovereignty and malpractice liability.
GOP enthusiasm for States' rights waning
Washington policy shifts under Bush broaden federal power in schools courts homes and medicine. Critics say No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act erode state authority while Gingrich era rhetoric contrasted with tied federal funding. Analysts call the shift a major turnaround in federalism.
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Bush
Fair Credit
Gingrich
George W. Bush
Texas
Florida
al Gore
U.S. Supreme Court
Greve
Stardust captures dust and images from Wild 2 flyby
NASA’s Stardust mission, 149 miles from comet Wild 2, snaps 72 images of the nucleus and records particle bursts as it speeds 13 650 mph. The probe collects dust for Earth analysis using aerogel, aiming to return samples and data within days, while Mars rovers near landing.
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Stardust
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Washington
NASA
Brownlee
Red Planet
Lincoln Log reveals daily life of Abraham Lincoln on web
Springfield AP reports a new online resource, The Lincoln Log, documents nearly all known daily actions of Abraham Lincoln. Users can search dates like January 3 1845 when he argued before the Illinois Supreme Court, or search keywords such as slave to see related entries. The site complements the established Papers of Abraham Lincoln project and updates as new facts surface.
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Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Illinois Supreme Court
State Historic Preservation Agency
Stg
Brown.edu
John Lupton
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