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News January 2, 2009  RSS feed
New laws in five states call for fire-safe cigarettes
      FORT WORTH (AP) — Laws mandating stores only sell cigarettes that are slow-burning and fire-safe went into effect in five states on New Year's Day. Delaware, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas on Thursday joined 17 other states in mandating the fire-safe cigarettes.
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Coal plant work brings boon to Riesel
By J.B. SMITH Waco Tribune-Herald
      RIESEL (AP) — A single smokestack 30 stories high looms on the horizon of this rural town 15 miles east of Waco. Some 275 people are working there to build the Sandy Creek coal-fired power plant. Up to a thousand more could join them before the plant opens in 2012.
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