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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Baylor women win
Rachel Allison scored 25 points as No. 19 Baylor upset No. 2 Stanford, 81-65, Sunday at the Ferrell Center.
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One killed, one injured in Gatesville crash
A Gatesville teen has died and another was injured when the pickup they were riding in overturned on State Highway 36 north of Gatesville.
Jessica McGehee, 17, of Gatesville was killed around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when the 1999 Ford F-150 pickup truck left the roadway, overturned and rolled several times, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said the truck’s driver, 17-year-old Kodi Hitt, also of Gatesville, was injured in the accident and taken to Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
Hitt was driving north on Highway 36 when she drifted out of her lane onto the right shoulder, the spokeswoman said. Hitt overcorrected and veered off the left shoulder. In an attempt to regain control of the pickup, Hitt overcorrected a second time, causing the truck to roll three times.
Justice of the Peace Jimmy Wood pronounced McGehee dead at the scene.
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Shuttle arrives at space station
Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station this afternoon after a two-day trip from Earth. Docking occurred at 4:01 pm CST, a little ahead of schedule. Hatch opening was scheduled for around 5:30, but it seems to have taken a little longer than usual for the relative motion between the shuttle and station to be damped out so the connection between the two can be tightened into a hard dock. That has happened now, though, and motors in the docking ring are pulling the station and shuttle close together.
The shuttle did a backflip before docking so the station crew could take pictures of the shuttle’s underside, checking for damage. The station crew reported the shuttle as “clean and dry”; meanwhile, the pictures are being transmitted back to mission control for inspection. There was earlier concern that part of an insulating blanket might have come off based on images from the launch, but NASA says an inspection yesterday using the shuttle’s robot arm found no such damage.
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Edwards says he’s not interested in Obama cabinet post
Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, said today he’s staying in Congress despite speculation he was being considered for Veteran Affairs secretary.
The Waco Democrat said Sunday he told President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team that he’ll continue representing his Texas district where voters this month re-elected him to a 10th term.
Edwards, who is chairman of the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Committee, said he believed he could be more effective in Congress than the Cabinet.
Edwards defeated Republican Rob Curnock to win a 10th term on Nov. 4.
He was also reported to be on Obama’s short list of potential running mates during the presidential campaign this summer.
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Waco sees season’s first freeze
Waco Regional Airport had an overnight low of 30 degrees this morning. It was already 32 at midnight, so yesterday goes down in the record books as the date of this year’s first freeze.
That puts us a bit ahead of the average date, Nov. 23, but not especially early, according to National Weather Service records. The earliest first freeze on record was Oct. 24, 1917; No. 10 on the list is Nov. 5,
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