San Angelo Standard-Times

A heart attack couldn't stop Don Ruckelshausen from doing emergency services volunteer work with the American Red Cross. But doctor's orders did stop him from providing food to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Grammy nominee Cindy Jordan will lead a free concert to launch 11 Days of Global Unity at 6 p.m. Sunday on the lawn of the Tom Green County Courthouse.

TODAY 7 a.m. - Concho Valley Farmers Market, El Paseo de Santa Angela Pavilion, 609 S. Oakes St. 9:30 a.m. - Lily Fest, Civic League Park, Beauregard Avenue and Park Street. 10 a.m. - 1st Saturday at the Chicken Farm Art Center, 2505 Martin Luther King Blvd.

A personal dispute between two employees of a meat-packing plant in San Angelo nearly killed one man and landed the other in jail on Friday, police said.

With the latest national unemployment figures reaching 6.1 percent, Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken said the state likely will see an unemployment increase.

"It's a full-time job getting the bad out of these kids," the woman said to me as she passed me on her way out of a waiting room.

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At the first inauguration of George W. Bush as president, the Rev. Franklin Graham raised eyebrows by using an edgy word in his prayer.

Central at Lubbock High What: District 2-5A volleyball match. When: 2 p.m., today. Where: Lubbock High. Records: Central is 21-4 overall and 2-0 in district. LHS is 5-12 and 0-2.

Uncertainty is the theme for most of the San Angelo high school cross country teams as they begin their seasons today at the Concho Valley Classic at Carlsbad.

Producers Livestock Auction Thursday, Sept. 4 SAN ANGELO - Producers Auction sold 1,652 head of cattle on a Thursday sale. Compared with our sale last week, steers and heifers sold firm to 1.00 higher. Slaughter cows and bulls also sold fully 1.00 to 3.00 higher.

Development Wells and Wildcats District 7C - San Angelo Runnels County Enrich Oil Corp. Leona #1

Melissa Neal captured this photo of Ross Neal, 3, conversing with his great-grandmother, Vicky Fisher, during a Fourth of July celebration at a lake house on Lake Nasworthy. Neal's photo is posted among many community-submitted pictures at gosanangelo.com.

Saying something needs to be done is easy, but it takes work to turn that need into a plan and see it through. The Baptist General Convention of Texas, based in Dallas, is working with Baptist churches across the state to do just that.

The Rev. Amy Wilson remembers being a patient, more than once, at Abilene's Presbyterian Medical Care Mission.

TORONTO - All Seth Rogen wanted when he came to Hollywood was to make a movie with Kevin Smith.

NEW YORK - No soup for Microsoft? The software giant's new ad starring Jerry Seinfeld has drawn largely negative reviews online after premiering Thursday night during NBC's broadcast of the National Football League's season kickoff game.