12/29/09 Police said Tuesday that the car belonging to Albert James Turner was found partially submerged in a river in Georgia 12/29/09 Area event changes due to weather:- At 3 p.m. the Texas Department of Public Safety reported: "So far today, State Troopers have worked less than 10 crashes in the Big Country. Of those, only one was an injury crash. A command center has been set up in Eastland County just in case the weather or traffic worsens. The National Guard is staged there and ready to assist. The Texas Department of ... 12/28/09 Dec. 26, 1929: "The last torpedo he had for his Christmas fireworks may cost Ceile Hall of Floydada the use of an eye. At dark Christmas Day, the 11-year-old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Hall, had four torpedoes left and went outside the house to fire them. The last one sent a fragment or a piece of gravel flying into his right eye." 12/29/09 Through personal intervention in the negotiations, President Obama salvaged from the Copenhagen talks a 3-page accord. 12/29/09 A Louisiana truck driver was killed Tuesday morning in a one-vehicle wreck after he was ejected from his rolling rig on state highway 87 in Newton County, a DPS report stated. 12/29/09 East Bay earns tie in all-star game Several local football players participated in the Holiday Classic all-star football game on Dec. 26 at Grant High in Sacramento, with the East Bay All-Stars playing the Sacramento All-Stars to a 13-13 tie in double-overtime. 12/29/09 Memorial linebacker Earl Hines said Tuesday that he wants to play college football in the Big 12 and so far he's received quite a few offers from schools in the conference. 12/29/09 Chase Beeler thought choosing where to play college football was a tough decision. But when it came time to choose where not to play, that's when things got really hard. 12/29/09 Four Jehovah's Witnesses who were traveling to door-to-door ministries drowned when their car mysteriously crashed through a fence and overturned in a pond. 12/29/09 Police are hoping to examine the onboard computer from a 2008 Toyota Avalon to see if it contains information about why the car careened into a pond in Southlake, killing four people. 12/21/09 Princeton Borough Pascual Jimenez, 49, of Trenton, was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop Saturday on Nassau Street. 12/29/09 BY MICHELLE BERRY MANAGING EDITOR With a new fiscal year underway, the total operating budget for the Borger Police Department is seeing a slight increase in its operating budget, and an overall decrease in its departmental budget over the last fiscal year. |