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Gas Price Spike

It’s going to cost you more to fill up if you’re hitting the road. Gas prices have risen nearly nine cents over the past week according to gasbuddy.com, just in time for the holidays and New Year. Here in the midlands we’re paying an average of $3.15 a gallon, a jump from $2.99 over the weekend. Nationwide, drivers are paying…

Winter Storms Threaten Christmas Day Plans

NEW ORLEANS December 25, 2012 (AP)– Forecasts of snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened to complicate Christmas Day travel around the nation’s midsection Tuesday as several Gulf Coast states braced for a chance of twisters and powerful thunderstorms. A blizzard watch was posted for parts of Indiana and western Kentucky for storms expected to develop Tuesday amid predictions of up…

Shells preserved in wall where they hit Sumter

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) — Historians say Charleston and Fort Sumter have been bombarded more than any other place in the Western Hemisphere. And it’s evident because several shells from Union guns are still lodged in the walls of the fort where the Civil War began.