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Updated: 53 min 13 sec ago

Big duel for HSU, UMHB

58 min 59 sec ago
When Pete Fredenburg started the Mary Hardin-Baylor football program 11 years ago, the first person he called for advice was Hardin-Simmons coach Jimmie Keeling, who orchestrated a similar building project at HSU eight years earlier.

Coogs face high-powered Del Valle in second round

59 min 59 sec ago
Cooper got its first playoff victory since 2002 last week, and the Cougars hope to keep rolling along this week. They'll have to get past an 8-3 El Paso Del Valle team in the second round of the Class 4A Division I playoffs.

Wylie gets offense it needs

1 hour 59 sec ago
The Bulldogs are 9-2 heading into their regional round playoff game tonight against Seminole, and despite occasional struggles, the team's offense has come up with big scoring drives when it needed them in most contests.

Wildcats, Buffs meet yet again

1 hour 59 sec ago
The fact that the Abilene Christian University Wildcats and West Texas A&M Buffaloes are meeting in yet another big game should come as no surprise.

Kohler eliminates 5 positions in second round of layoffs

1 hour 1 min ago
A second round of layoffs occurred this week at the Kohler plant in Brownwood, and five positions have been eliminated, according to company officials.

AROUND THE BIG COUNTRY 11.22.08

1 hour 18 min ago
News from around the Big Country

Lubbock lawmaker fined in ethics probe

1 hour 19 min ago
AUSTIN -- The Texas Ethics Commission has fined state Rep. Carl Isett $6,400 for using campaign money to pay his wife more than $30,000 for bookkeeping services.

The Day in Photos, Nov. 21, 2008

2 hours 19 min ago
Friday's news in photos

Brownwood volleyball team advances to state title match

3 hours 40 min ago
Flynn Harrell smashed 30 kills and Julie Kennedy added 22 kills as the Brownwood Lady Lions (33-9) blasted former nine-time state champion Bellville (37-8) 28-26, 23-25, 25-20, 25-20 to advance to the finals of the UIL Volleyball Class 3A tournament Saturday at 1 p.m. against top-ranked Lucas Lovejoy.

Source: Geithner likely Obama's Treasury pick

3 hours 44 min ago
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday.

$3M in boots stolen

3 hours 45 min ago
FORT WORTH -- Someone stole nearly $3.2 million worth of boots and parts by hauling away shipping containers in a big rig, police said today.

FDIC OKs backing for bank debt, deposits

3 hours 45 min ago
WASHINGTON -- The FDIC will guarantee up to $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt for more than three years as part of the government's financial rescue plan.

Brownwood volleyball advancing to state championship game

5 hours 10 min ago
Brownwood volleyball team wins; advances to state championship round

DRI's Christmas bells

5 hours 35 min ago
DRI's Bell Peppers will perform Dec. 11 at the Abilene Civic Center.

Abilene fugitive Danny Lott is caught

7 hours 55 min ago
A fugitive from federal justice with ties to the Abilene area was apprehended Friday in Lewisville.

Danny Randell Lott, 46, was arrested without incident at a town house where he had been staying with an acquaintance, U.S. Marshal Chance Ferguson said in a news conference.

Nancy Jones leaving Community Foundation of Abilene

8 hours 1 min ago
Nancy Jones, the only chief executive the Community Foundation of Abilene has had in its 22 years, is leaving effective March 1, the foundation announced this afternoon.

Abilene unemployment rate remains stable

8 hours 12 min ago
While Abilene's unemployment rate remained stable, Texas' unemployment rate increased to 5.6 percent in October, up half a percentage point from the previous month.

Teen kills self live on webcam

8 hours 42 min ago
A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.

Albany girls suffer first loss: in state semifinals

10 hours 48 min ago
Albany's volleyball season ended a day short of its goal as the previously unbeaten Lady Lions (43-1) lost to Iola (39-3) 25-17, 25-16, 22-25, 25-14 in the Class-A state volleyball tournament semifinals at Strahan Coliseum.

Mukasey better after collapse

11 hours 6 min ago
Attorney General Michael Mukasey was given "a clean bill of health" and hoped to check out of the hospital after extensive medical tests following his collapse, the Justice Department said today.