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A Glimpse Ahead Timothy Snodgrass The Impossible Will Come Alive In 2005 01/28/05 In January of 2004, as we began to intercede for the New Year the Holy Spirit gave us the prophetic slogan, "The Seas will Roar in 2004". This year we were given a new slogan, "The Impossible will come Alive in 2005". As the veil of darkness begins to come down over nations and regions, along with great shakings will come great breakthroughs; signs, wonders, healings and a spectacular release of miracles in impossible circumstances. This year, although we are ultimately poised to gain much ground, there...

Cycling partner recalls horrifying moment of friend's hit-and-run fatality BY d. LANCE LUNSFORD AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Kedric C. Hobbs, 20, spoke several times about the agony of possibly getting struck by a car while cycling. He and cycling partner Luke Thornton, 20, had been riding together for about a week until Monday night when a red pickup - allegedly driven by 32-year-old Jason D. McInroe - struck Hobbs, killing him. On the side of the road, in the 7800 block of Fourth Street's dusty shoulder, Thornton held Hobbs in his arms, having unsuccessfully felt for a pulse in the moments after the...

Just look at this letter that they PRINTED!!! in the NY Times. I knew the paper had gone completely down the tubes, but this kind of back-stabbing is why real Americans don't trust liberals. "To the Editor: Re "Bush, at the U.N., Calls for Action to Widen Liberty" (front page, Sept. 22): President Bush endlessly repeats the claim that we are safer without Saddam Hussein in power but offers evidence that does not support his assertion. Saddam Hussein's being a dictator or using weapons against his people or wishing to acquire the capacity to get weapons of mass destruction are...

Attorney Fernando Laurel III dies in unusual train accident BY LAUREL ALMADA Times staff writer One of the three things Fernando Laurel, III, was most passionate about was his family ranch - the ranch he left moments before he died in an unusual train accident Monday morning. Known to his close friends and family as "Fernie," Laurel was reportedly leaving the Laurel family ranch at the 27-mile marker along IH-35 when his truck either stopped or stalled on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. "We don't believe he was trying to beat the train. The truck had to have stopped," Department...

In Loving Memory of... Bossier Parish students raise money for family of deceased track coach Rachel Hayes Press-Tribune Bossier High School was bustling with activity Monday as faculty and students worked a fund-raiser to raise money for a very special family. All the proceeds of the fund-raiser will to directly to the family of Coach Shannon Babineaux who died several weeks ago after being hit in the head with a softball during a slow-pitch softball game. Babineaux left behind a wife and infant son. What started out as a small fund-raiser soon turned into a major undertaking as people all...

WARSAW (Reuters) - A sexually excited stallion bit a Polish man to death when he tried to calm the beast, which had become uncontrollably aroused by a nearby mare, police said. "The 24-year-old man, identified as Robert R., was bitten when he tried to calm his horse, which had become unsettled by the presence of a mare in the vicinity," a duty officer in the Baltic port of Szczecin told Reuters. The horse went wild and began straining and bucking while pulling a farm cart through the village. An autopsy would determine whether the direct cause of death was a...

Pedestrian killed on University Avenue ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE A woman was killed Thursday night when a pickup hit her while she was trying to cross University Avenue near the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus, Little Rock police said. Witnesses said the woman was walking west on 32nd Street about 8:30 p.m. when the southbound pickup struck her. The driver then lost control of his vehicle, crossed the median and hit an iron fence on the east side of the road. The woman was pronounced dead on the scene. The pickup driver was taken to a Little Rock hospital, but...

Pilot killed in helicopter crash By Cheryl BurtonJanuary 29, 2003 (West Chicago) — The final pieces of debris from a fatal helicopter crash have been moved inside the DuPage Airport hangar. The pilot-who was killed-had just taken off from the West Chicago airport.Michael Russell, 52, worked for the Air Angels Medivac Service affiliated with Good Samartan Hospital in Downers Grove. He was alone in the Augusta A109C, which can hold a patient, nurse, paramedic and pilot. The debris will be reconstructed to help investigators figure out what caused the crash. A team of investigators were brought to the airport, including...

TLC Singer Killed in Car Crash Fri Apr 26, 4:08 AM ETBy TANIA FUENTEZ, Associated Press WriterATLANTA (AP) - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the top selling female trio TLC was killed in a car crash in Honduras, her record company said early Friday. Slideshows Reuters Lopes, 31, was in Honduras for a vacation, Arista Records' senior vice president of publicity Laura Swanson told The Associated Press. Lopes was reportedly among seven people in the car Thursday night and the only fatality."No words can possibly express the sorrow and sadness I feel for this most devastating loss," said Arista president...