Officials say at least 10 people are missing and about a half-dozen more are injured after a gas line exploded in rural north Texas.
Cleburne city manager Chester Nolen tells the Dallas-Fort Worth television station WFAA that Monday's explosion left at least 10 people missing.
Johnson County Emergency Management Coordinator Jack Snow tells …
DEAR ABBY: I am so confused. Three months ago, I met and begandating a wonderful guy I'll call Jason. I hadn't been in arelationship in more than two years because my ex-husband molested my6-year-old daughter, and it caused me to distrust men.
When Jason and I are together, he makes me feel not onlybeautiful, but special and important. Even though I've known him onlya few months, my feelings for him are stronger than they've been foranyone.
The reason I'm mixed up is because when Jason and I are together,we have so much fun. But when he leaves, it's sometimes a week oreven two weeks before I hear from him again.
When I call him, I get no answer. I always leave …
The newborn son of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin was circumcised Sunday inside this heavily guarded prison, exactly 12 years after the Israeli leader was gunned down at a Tel Aviv peace rally, as rival protesters screamed insults at each other outside the facility.
The ceremony, a Jewish ritual in which boys are named, capped a saga that has caused turmoil in Israel since the baby was born last week. Rabin's family, and much of the public, opposed a court decision allowing Yigal Amir to attend the circumcision of his son, while a vocal group of Israeli ultranationalists voiced solidarity with Amir.
Several dozen dovish protesters, some holding …
1950-2009
William J. Dugal was determined that nothing would stop him from becoming a priest, not even an illness that he endured for most of his adult life.
"He was extraordinary despite the handicap and illnesses," said Candace Kane, a friend since college days. "Once you got to know him, you didn't notice anymore."
As a young man he was diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia, a disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system as the person ages.
Rev. Dugal died April 4 at St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet. He was 59.
"He never complained despite all he had been through in his life," said his sister Kathleen …
LANCASTER COUNTY
Immigrant population helps to drive economy
A corner of Amish country in Lancaster County has quietly become home for more than 400 Russian immigrants. In the past two decades, a steady flow of Russians from the former Soviet Union have settled near Ephrata, starting businesses and finding work with local employers.
The influx of Russian refugees to Pennsylvania began in the late 1980s, after the fall of the former Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, said Sheila McGeehan of Elkhart, Ind.-based Church World Service. She's the director of the agency's Lancaster office, which serves the refugee and immigrant communities of Pennsylvania. The U.S. …
LONDON - A Hindu monastery in a quiet corner of Wales seems an unlikely locale for dissent. But the seizure of Shambo the bull from Skanda Vale and his subsequent slaughter underlined the difficulties Britain faces in accommodating its wide array of religions.
Hindus, Muslims and Christians have seized on the Shambo case to complain that the government is interfering in their spiritual lives.
Shambo was taken away from the monastery on Thursday at the end of a long and public battle between Hindus who revere bulls and authorities who said he must be killed because he had tested positive for tuberculosis.
Officials said they had to prevent the disease's spread. …
Divers have begun removing fuel from a boat that sank in Alaska's Cook Inlet five months ago, but the work has halted while crews try to stabilize a staging vessel in the inlet's extreme tides.
The Monarch, a 166-foot oil supply boat, sank Jan. 15 when making a delivery to an oil rig platform.
On Sunday, divers pumped out 1,000 gallons of an estimated 30,000 gallons of …
