SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Clay County Leader publisher Phil Major has been elected president of Texas Press Association.
He was elected Saturday at the group's 128th summer convention in San Antonio.
Major succeeds Marshall Day, who's publisher of The Gatesville Messenger. Day becomes chairman of the association board.
The two childhood friends rolled up Mule Deer Circle and took a right on Elk Point Drive. They passed the smoking embers of stumps and the charred remains of power poles, melted and gutted cars, frayed and fallen power lines, ash on the ground and in the air.
Pat La Vallee lost his wife three years ago. His friend, Mike Elliott, lost his last year. And now this.
A day after La Vallee looked up from the raft in his little pool to see a "tornado fire cloud" in the distance and then grabbed his three cats, his Fender guitar and his gem-studded cross necklace, he managed to slide past police barricades Monday morning to view what he hoped he never would.
MARSHALL, Mich. ? The Marshall Area Garden Club will host the ?Welcome to My Garden Tour? Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Six gardens will be featured on the tour.A garden market will take place on both tour days and will be located behind the B.E. Henry Building, 615 S. Marshall Ave.For general tour information contact the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce, (800) 877-5163 or (269) 781-5163, or visit marshallmi.org. For ticket information, call Lois at (269) 781-5434.
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - Talk about a brush with crime.
Grapevine police are seeking a toothbrush bandit.
Investigators believe the man, over the past couple of weeks, has swiped nearly $1,300 worth of electric toothbrushes from a Target store.
Brokerage Bear Stearns may put up $1.6 billion to rescue another one of its money-losing hedge funds, half as much as it offered last week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The size of the bailout dropped after the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund found buyers for some assets and creditors sold others, said the sources, who declined to be identified because they aren't authorized to comment for the firm.
Bear Stearns, the biggest U.S. broker to hedge funds, said Friday it would assume $3.2 billion of loans to prevent lenders from liquidating assets.
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