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TIMPSON, TX (KTRE) - Robert L. Osby, 20, was arrested at 3:05 p.m. Friday by Timpson Police in connection with an accidental shooting involving a toddler. According to Police Chief Hilton Poindexter, Osby is charged with injury to a child, a second degree felony. On August 4, a two-year-old toddler apparently shot another toddler on Neal Street in Timpson. Chief Poindexter said after an investigation, police were able to determine Osby owned the 22-caliber pistol that was left in the bedroom where the children were playing. Chief Poindexter said the child was released from the hosptial and is doing well....

WASHINGTON: Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumour, his doctors said last night, of a type considered potentially very dangerous. Kennedy has a glioma and likely will require chemotherapy and radiation therapy, neurologist Dr Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Dr Larry Ronan, a primary physician there said. Kennedy, 76, has been admitted to hospital since he had a seizure on Saturday. He was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday morning after being rushed by ambulance to a local hospital near his family's Cape Cod vacation compound.

In an essay published recently on National Review Online, John Derbyshire has declared that the documentary Expelled contains a blood libel against Western Civilization. His is an exercise of striking vulgarity, the more so since, as he insouciantly admits, he has not “seen the dang thing.” A blood libel, one might recall, refers to the charge that the Jewish people are irredeemably stained by their occasional, if modest, need for Christian blood. Some terms have acquired through their historical associations a degree of repugnance that persuades sensitive men and women not to use them. If Derbyshire has been repelled by...

Innocents eager to flee the endless campaign of '08 can take heart. Some people are already gearing up for the campaign of 2012. And why not? We've rarely had a field of such likely one-termers as John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. President McCain would be pushing 76 in the summer of '12, and the prospect of a second term would be giving the envelope a mighty shove. Four years of a hip-hop White House or the shrill echoes of a nagging nanny would surely be enough to sate the appetite of the hardiest masochist.

Idealistic American youth have a long history of joining political causes in order to participate more fully in the democratic process. Those with more lofty goals get involved to eradicate war, racism, slavery, female genocide, global warming, and conservative talk shows. Some radical students under the tutelage of Democrats even believe that by simply wiping out conservative radio all horrendous problems facing humanity will automatically and permanently disappear.

When did the global warming hoax die? Historians are likely to pinpoint 2007. It will take another decade to insure it cannot be revived, but the avalanche of scientific studies and the cumulative impact of scientists who have publicly joined those who debunked the lies on which it has been based will be noted as the tipping point.

Juan Trujillo Perez, 28, of Pittsburg was indicted June 11 for manslaughter in the death of 7-year-old Alejandra Trujillo, who fell from a front basket of an all-terrain vehicle operated by Perez and was run over April 1, according to a press release. Chief Deputy Miguel Larsen said the Titus County Sheriff's Office received the results of Perez's blood alcohol test on Tuesday. In Texas, a blood alcohol content of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated, and Perez's test showed a blood alcohol content of 0.14 percent. Perez's intoxication does not change the indictment, Larsen said. Manslaughter is defined as "recklessly...

A gunfight breaks out at an East Texas community baseball game, sending two to the hospital. The Rusk County Sheriff's Department says the fight began when a man threw a beer can at his cousin, who was playing baseball at the Fairview Community Center in south Rusk County. Deputies say that's when the man grabbed a shotgun, filled with bird pellets and began firing. The cousin reportedly grabbed another shotgun and began firing back. Both men were hit several times with pellets, but no one else was injured. The sheriff's department says the man who started the fight faces aggravated...

I don’t know about you, but I’m with George W on this one: It’s time for surge! Yes, let’s surge into Iraq with another 20,000 – put ‘em out there in the hot spots, sweating sniper fire, praying that the car that just pulled up doesn’t explode in hellish fury, fretting that anyone (everyone!) could be a suicide bomber. I salute you, Mr. War President, for escalating America’s military presence in this civil war, asking even more of our people to step up, step in, and sacrifice their jobs, time, limbs... and lives. The only proviso that I attach to...

James and Darlene Nelson, their experiences -- their brushes with death -- happened decades apart. James was a very young child, and became very ill. "I looked [up] and it was just real bright, and you just could tell that it was someone and an image. Somehow you just know this image is God," he recalls. He says even at that young age, he could communicate with God. "I was in this wonderful place, and it's impossible to describe how beautiful it was and peaceful, [with] love and joy," he says. Though he was so young, he says what he...

"I was putting pebbles in a bucket and I was having a really good time." Linda Jacquin was just four years old. Playing in the water though she was so young, she says she remembers everything. Including when her foot slipped off a rock and she was caught under the surface. "I was underwater and I started breathing underwater because at four and a half years old, you didn't know you can't breathe underwater," she says. What happened next isn't completely clear. But Linda says she began to leave her body -- floating away. "With a vantage point of being...

7-8 a.m. – Tour de FireAnt Bike Ride registration, West Houston and North Franklin streets 8-8:30 a.m. – 5K Six Feet on the Street registration, North Washington Avenue at West Austin Street 8 a.m. – Chili Cook-off breakfast and registration, West Rusk and North Wellington streets; Tour de FireAnt Bike Ride begins 8:30 a.m. – 5K Run begins 9 a.m. – Arts, crafts and food booths open; children's area opens with Lone Star Amusements, Silver Spurs pony rides, a train ride and much more, on Wellington Street. 10 a.m. – FireAnt Parade, downtown Marshall 11 a.m. – FireAnt Calling Contest,...

BURLESON, Texas – Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got – books, pencils, legs and arms. ‘‘Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success,'' said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools. That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of...

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Mark Steyn, author of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. In his book, Steyn argues that the world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

I thought that, as this is a slow news weekend, y'all might enjoy participating in this poll. I apologize to admin for posting it incorrectly earlier. (I hope I got it right this time. If not, please don't hate me for it. I mean well.) Alcohol is morally wrong, but drugs are not. Drugs are morally wrong, but alcohol is not. Both are morally wrong Neither are morally wrong

What are your feelings about abortion and homosexuality as moral issues? (Please read the responses carefully before answering.) Abortion is morally wrong, but homosexuality is not Homosexuality is morally wrong, but abortion is not Both abortion and homosexuality are morally wrong Neither abortion nor homosexuality are moral issues

A few years back, when folks talked airily about "the Middle East peace process" and "a two-state solution," I used to say that the trouble was the Palestinians saw a two-state solution as an interim stage en route to a one-state solution. I underestimated Islamist depravity. As we now see in Gaza and southern Lebanon, any two-state solution would be an interim stage en route to a no-state solution. In one of the most admirably straightforward of Islamist declarations, Hussein Massawi, the Hezbollah leader behind the slaughter of U.S. and French forces 20 years ago, put it this way: "We...

Two people died and four others were injured early Sunday morning after bullets tore through a crowd outside El Angel nightclub despite recently increased police presence during early-morning hours on weekends in downtown Dallas. Police said Lendl Carey, 22, and Kenneth Haggerty, 20, died after a verbal altercation between rival gang members inside the club about 1:30 a.m. led to two shootings outside the club in the 600 block of N. Harwood. A promotion party for an album release was taking place at the time. Dallas police spokeswoman Senior Cpl. Jamie Matthews said the first shooting happened behind the club...

DE QUEEN, Ark.—No criminal charges will be filed against the mother who left her 14-month-old son in a vehicle for about four hours, causing him to die from excessive heat exposure, Prosecuting Attorney Tom Cooper said Tuesday. The autopsy report showed Zachary Bowden died from “environmental hyperthermia” because of excessive exposure to heat. The report was prepared by the state medical examiner’s office. “Based on the autopsy and an interview with the mother, the actions were consistent with the problems the mother had from brain surgery and she had also been having seizures,” said Cooper. Cooper also said interviews determined...

TORONTO - The group of alleged extremists police say were planning terrorist attacks in Ontario was led by two young men who had both studied under the same Mississauga spiritual leader. Fahim Ahmad, 21, and Zakaria Amara, 20, are being described as the key figures among the 12 adults and five juveniles charged over the weekend with terrorism-related offences, the National Post has learned. Both had been followers of Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, a senior member of the Al-Rahman Islamic Centre in Mississauga and the oldest of the 17 accused. Police seized firearms, computer hard drives, camouflage clothing, an electronic...