| RNC Chairman Mike Duncan Addresses RNC Members at Winter Meeting
RNC Chairman Mike Duncan addressed the RNC members today at the winter meeting at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC. The following is a transcript of Chairman Duncan's remarks as prepared for delivery: Thank you for that warm welcome, and for the opportunity you are giving me to once again serve a Party that I have been honored to serve my entire life. Thank you to President Bush " /> President Bush for asking me to take on a challenging role in a challenging time. I am privileged to have been able to serve a President and a leader I admire as much as George W. Bush. I am honored to have the confidence of a man who has done so much for this nation. And I am proud to be able to help achieve his goals and those of this Party in any way that I can.
Mascot corporal gives Reveille holiday home
For many Aggies, the winter break is a time to travel home, take a break from school and visit with family. For the Texas A&M mascot, this is no exception. Over the winter break, the first lady of A&M accompanied mascot corporal Andrew Davis to his home in Longview.
"She goes home with me over summer, Christmas break, spring break," said Davis, a sophomore international studies major. "Basically she goes everywhere I go for a year, and I go everywhere she goes."
Davis said Reveille, who rode home with him in the back of his mother's Suburban, is "a really good traveler." During the summer, the first lady had to travel about 10,000 miles and is used to long trips.
Davis said Reveille adjusted well to his home and family and loved playing with his black lab, Magic.
Police negotiator talks man out
A 35-year-old Springwater Township man who barricaded himself in a home on Old Snow Valley Road following a domestic Monday was later arrested by police. Police took the man into custody with the help of an OPP crisis negotiator. The Huronia West OPP were originally called to the home around 5:30 p.m., but the man fled. The man later returned to the house, but refused to surrender. For safety reasons during the period of the incident, police closed Old Snow Valley Road and evacuated several residents from the area. OPP Const. Mark Kinney said the man is charged with assault, assault with a weapon, careless use of a firearm, uttering death threats, mischief and failure to comply with a recognizance. The man's identity is not being released by police because they said it could identify the victim in the case.
DateLine Briefs: Heavy storms kill 25 across northern Europe
LONDON -- Hurricane-force winds and heavy downpours hammered northern Europe on Thursday, killing 25 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands. The storms were among the fiercest to batter northern Europe in years, ripping off part of the roof at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, toppling a crane in the Netherlands and upending trucks on Europe's busiest highway. By evening, weather-related accidents had killed 25 people, including a 2-year-old boy hit by falling brick from a toppled wall in London. Ten deaths were reported in the United Kingdom. Five died in Germany; four in the Netherlands, three in the Czech Republic, two in Belgium and one in France. Ahmadinejad says Iran prepared for conflict TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed back over the U.S.
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