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Tammi Watson has a Black Friday shopping strategy, but it requires an accomplice.

For Maria and Jose Barrera, Black Friday actually started at midnight Tuesday, when they set up their tent just outside the front door of the Best Buy electronics store in Central Texas Marketplace.

MARTIAN bugs arrived on Earth 13,000 years ago, scientists have discovered. The microscopic aliens arrived on a meteorite which smashed into the wastes of the Antarctic.

Chow, Baby picked the wrong day to launch its lifestyle change of no longer eating six people's worth of food at one sitting.

After nearly a year and a half of controversy, the Bellmead City Council is set to re-examine a beautification ordinance that some residents say needlessly threatens local businesses.

NASA scientists said Thursday that they had come up with a plan to free the stalled rover Spirit from its Martian sand trap but also warned that the plan might not work.

In a recent column, you referred to a 33 percent foreign component of the equity portion of a person's investments as being underweight.

Stay on the alert, senior citizens. There's a new scam in town. Police and Better Business Bureau officials have given it a variety of labels, but by any name, it is a scam that targets senior citizens by preying on their heartstrings.

Jaxton Hunt may not be at a reading level of Herman Melville and "Moby Dick." But suffice to say he's long past "Dick and Jane." Hunt, a second-grader at Coleman Elementary, won the Cleburne ISD Reading Bee Thursday at CISD central administration.

Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com . We've got this notebook that we carry around pretty much everywhere with us.

" Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth.

The Jacksonville Police Department compiled the following reports Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Friday calls A* Police responded to a shoplifting report at Wal-Mart Friday afternoon.

Last week Wacoans turned out for two very spirited meetings soliciting public input regarding future growth of the greater downtown Waco area, a goal that is being led by noted urban consultant John Fregonese, president of Fregonese Associates, a Portland, Ore.-based land-use planning firm that touts its record of "helping make better cities and ...

Martians will land again tonight. Seventy-one years ago Orson Welles pulled a fast one on his radio audience.

Faith Lutheran Church, 3824 W. State Highway 22, will have Oktoberfest from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct.

Art Center Waco, 1300 College Drive, is sponsoring a Great Pumpkin Carve event from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Christian Bale 's inspiration for his role as a dead-behind-the-eyes sociopath in the film "American Psycho" was none other than Tom Cruise , the film's director revealed.

Sylvia Jimenez does not mind taking the extra 20 minutes out of her way to buy homemade flour tortillas.

Early voting begins Monday for the constitutional amendment election. There are 11 amendment propositions and five special election propositions specific to Travis County on the ballot.

A blue-ribbon panel on human spaceflight recently declared Mars to be NASA's ultimate objective, but admitted humans aren't going there any time soon.