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Lone Star College Kingwood's Culture and Art Club is holding a benefit exhibition featuring handmade ornaments and a mix of other works by art students and local artists and craftsmen.

A Texas man driving through Mississippi was arrested Sunday after officers said they found more than ten pounds of cocaine inside his truck.

A Kingwood home caught fire twice in one night, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday. Firefighters arrived at the home in the 3500 block of Willow Ridge Drive at about 11:15 p.m. Sunday and said flames were shooting out of the roof.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in.

A teenager reported that two men tried to abduct him on his way to school on Wednesday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Pushing back against his critics, President Barack Obama says overhauling the health care system, while helping millions of people, also will test whether policy makers can "serve the national interest despite the unrelenting efforts of the special interests."

The administration is trying to build momentum for the president's overhaul effort after the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 vote this week for a bill that would extend health care coverage to millions of people. One Republican, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, supported the bill, and the measure faces considerable opposition from the health care industry, labor unions and large business organizations.

"The history is clear: For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. "And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us."

"It's smoke and mirrors," the president added. "It's bogus. And it's all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, 'Take one of these, and call us in a decade.' Well, not this time."

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JPMorgan Chase: $3.6 billion in profits in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs: $3.03 billion.

The Amplio Group (London, United Kingdom) recently announced the formation of Envirogen Technologies, Inc., a technology+services solutions provider with existing business in municipal and industrial water and environmental treatment applications. Envirogen Technologies, Inc. has been formed from the assets of Basin Water, Inc. that were recently purchased by Amplio. The new Envirogen Technologies, Inc. will offer a broad but targeted range of technologies, supported by operating service options for a number of environmental treatment applications, including potable water treatment, groundwater remediation, process water treatment, wastewater treatment, odor control and more. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Envirogen Technologies is its business model, which focuses on ‘lifecycle performance' – providing guaranteed, pay-for-performance, long-term contracts at predictable costs, offering customers the lowest total cost over the lifetime of an equipment installation. The company is headquartered in Kingwood, TX (near Houston) with regional offices in Southern California, Illinois, New Jersey and Tennessee.

That many expressed more than surprise but a sense of utter disdain and vitriol on President Obama getting the Nobel Peace prize is a display of unadulterated ignorance on the significance and reasoning behind him getting the award. One cannot believe that our country is still the bastion of freedom that epitomizes all that is supposed to be good and not see that the vast majority of the world sees President Obama as the American who with a roadmap laid out in his speeches and behind the scene diplomacy intends to significantly change direction of our international policy that many have seen as belligerent and arrogant. To the rest of the world that still sees America as all powerful, whoever turns this juggernaut in a more peace seeking direction is deserving of the prize.

The decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to "strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" appears to have left some in the United States divided over whether intangible achievements are worthy of such an esteemed award.

The Amplio Group recently announced the formation of Envirogen Technologies, Inc., a technology+services solutions provider with existing business in municipal and industrial water and environmental treatment applications.

Danny Iles of Hemphill, Texas, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Louisiana/Texas Division two-day Super Tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir Sunday with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 39 pounds even.

Air Force Airman Luiz F. Azevedo, son of Claudia Viloa of Leominster, graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Paul Rodriguez is a 34 year old Iraq veteran that has returned to live in Kingwood, TX.

A 3-year-old girl was critically injured Thursday when she was attacked by a pit bull in Porter.

Several French-ish restaurants received poor grades from the Houston Public Health Department in the past month.

Passed away Tuesday, August 25, 2009 in Kingwood, Texas. Marianne, recently widowed from her spouse of over 50 years, Jim Austin, leaves behind a loving and grateful family including her daughter , sons and their family members as well as a loving sister and her family.

I have tried all day to confirm this, but the Spring Observer newspaper reported that Republican Congressman Ted Poe will hold a townhall meeting on health care on Saturday morning at the Brookside Funeral Home in Kingwood, Texas.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, August 17. KELCI Bryant and Drew Livingston won individual titles, and Kassidy Cook , Loren Figueroa , Drew Brown and Cole Young captured synchronized diving titles Sunday to close out the AT&T National Diving Championships.