Grandma's House

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I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair I bowed my head
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”

A man angry that he got no presents for Christmas burned down his parents' house early the next morning, police said.

Michael Henson, whose truck had a sticking throttle, brought his dog along for company when he drove to O'Reilly Auto Parts store in Springdale on Sunday.

"He'd left the truck running — I guess to show the people at O'Reilly's — and the dog jumped over and knocked the truck into gear," Springdale police Sgt. Billy Turnbough said.

The truck raced into the building, stunning Henson and clerk Josh Hopper.

"The guy said he was standing there, looked up, and saw his dog driving his truck through the building," Turnbough said.

The 11 companies that have the new city towing contracts are required to respond to all disabled vehicles within six minutes and promptly get them off the highway once authorized by a police officer at Houston TranStar, the region's traffic-control center.

Drivers will be able to say where their cars should be taken, within 30 miles. They'll be charged $75 for the first five miles and $1.50 per mile thereafter.

"We are going to attempt to move those vehicles immediately, even if it's just off the freeway to a safe location," said Ken Ulmer, president of A-1 Towing, which holds the towing contracts for parts of the Katy Freeway. "For that towing fee of $75, we would change the tire for the consumer."

Tow trucks participating in the freeway towing program, dubbed "Safe Clear," will be required to accept credit cards and checks. Typically wreckers only accept cash and impound vehicles if motorists don't have it.

Motorists still face temporary seizure of their vehicle if they lack any form of payment. They will have to pick up their cars from storage lots, paying a storage fee in addition to the standard towing rate. Or a car can be sent to a mechanic, who will add the towing charge to the invoice for repairs needed.

The $75 base tow fee is a reduction from the Houston Police Department's current $115 authorized charge.

Sixty percent blame Congress for the shortage of body armor in the combat zone, reports USA Today in its coverage of the Times survey.

In more bad news for congressional Iraq War critics, 63 percent of active duty personnel said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war. Further confounding media attempts to demoralize the troops, 66 percent of soldiers surveyed say the war is worth fighting.

In addition, 87 percent of soldiers say they're satisfied with their jobs and, if given the choice today, only a quarter of troops surveyed say they'd leave the service. The latter number is particularly impressive, considering that nearly half say they expect to be there more than five years.

Police said the 11-year-old boy suffered several fractures to his head and face and lost at least one tooth. He also had a broken pelvis, broken arm, broken leg and broken wrist. He was at a Kansas City hospital Saturday night.

"He saved that man's life," fellow McDonald's employee Priscilla Morgan said of co-worker Tonio Harris.

The pair were working early Thursday morning when driver Brian Broussard, 20, pulled up to the drive-thru service window. "He was blacked out, leaning over the steering wheel," Morgan said.

East Baton Rouge sheriff's deputies say when Broussard's foot slipped off the brake, the car began to roll toward a canal across the street from the McDonald's. Harris took off after it, pulling Broussard from the still-moving car just before it plunged into the canal.

An email, sent to 800 staff -- complete with matchstick man diagrams for ease of understanding -- comes after one worker trapped her foot in the new doors at the BBC's offices in Britain's second city, cracking a toenail, The Sun said.

Employees at BBC Radio Sheffield in the north of England had previously been instructed on how to get through the often confusing and peril-laden task of boiling a kettle. The Sun quoted the edict as saying: "Remove lid from kettle and fill kettle with water."

When the 109th Congress convenes on Jan. 4, Bush intends to re-nominate the following 12 individuals for the U.S. Court of Appeals:

Terrence W. Boyle, 4th Circuit; Priscilla Richman Owen, 5th Circuit; David W. McKeague, 6th Circuit; Susan Bieke Neilson, 6th Circuit; Henry W. Saad, 6th Circuit; Richard A. Griffin, 6th Circuit; William H. Pryor; 11th Circuit; William Gerry Myers III, 9th Circuit; Janice Rogers Brown, District of Columbia Circuit; Brett M. Kavanaugh, District of Columbia Circuit; William James Haynes II, 4th Circuit; and Thomas B. Griffith, District of Columbia Circuit.

Bush also intends to nominate again the following eight people to less controversial U.S. District Court positions:

James C. Dever III, Eastern District, North Carolina; Thomas L. Ludington, Eastern District, Michigan; Robert J. Conrad, Western District, North Carolina; Daniel P. Ryan, Eastern District, Michigan; Peter G. Sheridan, New Jersey; Paul A. Crotty, Southern District, New York; Sean F. Cox, Eastern District, Michigan; and J. Michael Seabright, Hawaii.

A seventh-grade student who thought a Santa Claus outfit might add cheer to a "holiday" event at school was sadly mistaken when he was ordered to remove the red suit and white beard due, according to the principal, to concern about the so-called "separation of church and state."

The academy's principal, Fred Muscara, told a Hampton newspaper, "It was a holiday party. It was not a Christmas party. There is a separation of church and state. We have a lot of students that go to Hampton Academy Junior High that have different religions. We have to be sensitive to that."

Nancy Serpis, chairman of the Hampton School Board, told the Manchester paper when asked about the costume, "It's nice if we can respect one another's religious beliefs."

On his unit's first day of patrols in a newly assigned area in western Baghdad, near farmland once owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, Louisiana National Guard Sgt. Eric Lee thought it odd that a luxury car was parked next to a farmhouse. Then several other cars fled the property, heightening suspicion that the building was more than a farmhouse.

The unit, part of the 256th Enhanced Separate Brigade of the Louisiana National Guard, deployed to Iraq in October, moved closer, until Sgt. Paul Truscinski could see through a window.

What he saw inside was a weapons cache capable of killing scores of people. The weapons seized by the Guardsmen included 1,000 pounds of explosives, including an Italian-made anti-ship bomb, three artillery rounds, rockets, mortars, anti-tank weapons and industrial chemicals.

Police are looking for two women they say sexually assaulted a man with a pair of cooking tongs in a drug-related attack.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan police say the victim, a 25-year-old man, awoke Saturday morning with a metal object protruding from his body. The victim, who police say was using cocaine at the time, told police he does not remember much of what happened.

The victim's cousin took him to Memorial Health University Medical Center Saturday after he complained of pain. Doctors surgically removed an object identified as "one half of a pair of food tongs," and turned it over to police.

The woman accused of strangling a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb often faked being pregnant to get attention, even though she had her tubes tied 14 years ago, according to her ex-husband.

Investigators have said Montgomery confessed to the crime, and she is scheduled to make a second appearance in a federal court on Thursday.

Democrats claim victory in Washington governor's race - The head of the state Democratic Party says that recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in the closest governor's race in Washington state history.

Supervisor Don Knabe stated: "The cross has resurrected itself on the county seal. County employees just covered the old seal on Friday afternoon, and, in three days, the original cross has begun to bleed through to be visible again. I don't think we should spend another dollar of taxpayer money to replace the seal to eliminate that cross.

"It is very symbolic that the cross has reappeared on the new seal directly above the new icon of a mission, which does not have a cross. It is only appropriate."

Archway is recalling some holiday cookies that may contain pieces of glass.

The Battle Creek company says it's voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of its ten-ounce packages of Archway Holiday Cashew Nougat Cookies sold nationwide

The recalled packages with 2005 dates are: February second, 28th, and 29th; and March third, fourth, fifth and 24th. The product code is two-seven-five-zero-zero-zero-two-zero-five-four.

An ice resurfacing machine exploded Sunday night inside Peterson Arena, starting a fire at the ice rink and sending one broomball player to the hospital, witnesses said.

About 30 people - including two broomball teams and a handful of fans - were inside the building when the explosion happened at about 9:40 p.m. A small blast was followed by a larger explosion, the Duluth News Tribune reported in its Monday editions.

"What has happened is not so much that the Christians are leaving the public schools as that the public schools have left the Christians," said Ed Gamble, executive director of the Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools. The group, based in Orlando, Fla., supports the more than 600 Southern Baptist chools created in the past eight years.

The number of conservative Christian schools grew nearly 11 percent from 1999 to 2000 and 2001 to 2002, to 5,527, according to the U.S. Department of Education's latest statistics. At that rate, Christian schools are growing faster than private schools as a whole and have increased their share to nearly one in five private schools in the country.

Earlier this year, a resolution proposed at the national meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention -- which guides the nation's largest Protestant denomination -- urged parents to withdraw their children from "officially Godless" "government schools" in favor of religious education.

While the measure was rejected, interest in faith-based schools has continued to spread among Baptists at the state level, particularly in Tennessee, Missouri, Florida, South Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, California and New England, according to Exodus Mandate, a Columbia, S.C., group that promotes private, Christian and home-school education.

A recent resolution promoting Christian schooling easily passed the Missouri Baptist Convention but was quashed in committee at the Tennessee Baptist Convention meeting in Sevierville last month. The Missouri resolution talked about the "inherent dangers of secular educational philosophies that now permeates America's public education system" and affirmed "the importance of systematically training ourselves and our children in the ways of authentic, biblical Christianity." That means teaching creationism over evolution, that life begins at conception, and that homosexuality is immoral, as is sex outside marriage.

As the officer was giving Grieb a field sobriety test on the side of the road a tractor-trailer driven by Shane Gildersleeve of Baiatie, N.Y., crashed into the police car which then struck Grieb's vehicle, Bernardi said. The officer was able to get out of the way but was unable to move Grieb, who died instantly in the collision. The driver of the semi was arrested just up the road from the wreck.

Todd Graves, the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, said on Monday it was too early to say whether Montgomery suffered from mental illness.

He said the crime underlined how the Internet both brought crime into the victim's home in a small rural town but also allowed investigators to solve the case and recover the baby a day later.

A study testing whether Celebrex or naproxen would reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease was halted Monday after researchers noted an increase in heart attack and stroke among participants who were taking naproxen, an over-the-counter pain reliever on the market for nearly 30 years.

Officials at the National Institute of Health said the study was stopped after three years when it was noticed that patients taking naproxen, sold under the brand name Aleve, had a 50 percent greater incidence of cardiovascular events — heart attack or stroke — than patients taking placebo.

Players roll the dice, move around the board, renting properties, buying lights and equipment, planting and harvesting crops. Moving in an opposite direction on the cylinder shaped board is the "GrowBuster." He lands on the unsuspecting player's property, rips out the plants and sends the player directly to jail.

Among the finds: a police card bearing Jack Ruby's nine fingerprints (he lost a finger in a fight); photos of Ruby shooting alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; what appears to be a drawing of a map containing important assassination-related locations and a photo inventory of Oswald's belongings

The candle's creators and fans say even if you're not religious, the scent just gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling. They said, "If you're not religious at all, it's just a subtle scent. I think it can be shared by all."

It sells for $17.99 and burns for 80 hours. You won't be able to get one in time for Christmas, but you can get on a waiting list at Interiors Plus in Waseca. You can call Interiors Plus at 1-800-310-1512.

Two years ago, Matt Strong's ex-wife gave their dog, Mikey, to the Placer County Animal Shelter when neither could keep him. Strong said he couldn't get over his guilt of letting Mikey go. So, he decided to use technology to go in search of his friend.

The "vigilante" action occurred following the recent midweek prayer meeting at the Bartow First Baptist Church. Morning saw a nativity scene, a snowman and a disclaimer notice saying the county commissioners who had voted against the display were not responsible for its sudden appearance. According to Barbara Pittman, a Sunday School director at the church, the display is a "gift to Polk County."

According to County Attorney Joe Jarret, who sympathizes with the church members, the nativity scene isn't unconstitutional but their actions constituted a trespass on public property. The county has to regulate displays on public property, he told Polk County's News Chief, otherwise they "would soon turn into forums for various groups, many of whom [possess] agendas contrary to prevailing community mores, morals and attitudes."

"It's an unresolved issue at this point," Jarret says. "The Supreme Court has essentially said that once it becomes a public forum, it's a public forum. So it could prove to be difficult to restrain or otherwise regulate content."

In short, Jarret is unsure the county can take the display down without violating the constitutional rights of the church members who placed it there. And with no further commission business scheduled for the remainder of the year, any action would require a special board meeting.

Included in the version being mailed are testimonials from two local residents who, after living vicarious, secular lives, have turned to the word of God.

"If I were the editor I would want everyone in my community to feel that the pages of my newspaper are there for them," Kelly McBride-- the ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, an organization that promotes responsible journalism-told the Independent.

"I would want nonbelievers and Muslims and Jews to feel this was their paper as well," he said.

And Mary Simon, administrator of Temple Shalom in Colorado Springs, told the Independent some of her members will cancel their subscriptions to protest the decision.

"Something extraordinary is happening at Mount St Helens. We are scratching our heads about it," says Dan Dzurisin of US Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) in Vancouver, Washington, US. The new dome has grown so quickly - almost four cubic metres every second - that it has bulldozed a 180-metres-thick glacier out of its way.

If this rapid growth rate continues, there is a growing risk of a dome collapse which could trigger a major eruption, researchers warned at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

This year more than 18,000 butchers will be employed along with 700 veterinarians and 600 Shariah students. The animals will be examined at all stages until they are skinned and refrigerated.

The IDB undertakes the distribution of sacrificed meat among the poor in the Makkah area. Large quantities are transported by land, air and sea for distribution to member countries and Muslim communities worldwide. This year some 629,600 animals will be distributed in 23 countries as opposed to 593,000 last year.

Pizza is one of several items that customers have asked shops to deep-fry, along with bananas, pineapple rings and creme eggs, a highly sweet confectionery.

Scotland is already ranked as the country with the highest rate of chronic heart disease in Western Europe, a position that owes itself to cigarettes and alcohol as well as a poor diet and a love of sugary foods.

The senior Kandahar official said eight more Taliban fighters were arrested in Kandahar after the two men were caught, unarmed, on Monday evening. A cache of remote control bombs, time bombs and several other explosive devices and radios was also seized.

The survey, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, has the New York senator holding a narrow lead among women, 45 to 42 percent, while trailing by 17 points among men.

Conducted Dec.3-5, the survey of 1,500 likely voters had a margin of sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.

"September 20th is a 'midnight host' whatever that is," said one unidentified parent reading from the calendar. "You should have a blood-type ritual. September 23rd is the fall equinox – you should have an orgy. Activity group sex, any age, any sex."

"It clearly was a mistake," said Renea Ivy, Pearland ISD spokesperson. "We don't want it to happen again and so – it was not done with malice, it was not done to promote satanism in any way on the campus. It was just a mistake."

The officer said he got the packets from a anti-gang training course he took. Officials say he neglected to take out the adult material. The police officer remains on duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation.