Counting her blessings

Looking at Lynn Hellinghaus Christmas tree feels like looking at a museum display.

Woodland Mall drops charge for scooters

BOWLING GREEN - The Woodland Mall has reversed its policy of charging disabled shoppers to use its motorized scooter.

Attempted scooter-boost foiled
BEAUMONT, TEXAS Beaumont police were alerted in the wee morning hours of Jan. 5 that there was a theft in progress at the Wal-Mart department store located on Dowlen Rd.

Judge OKs exhumation of body for autopsy Investigators probing China Grove man's death after May accident
A judge has given local investigators permission to exhume the body of a China Grove man killed in May while riding his motorized scooter. Rowan District Attorney Bill Kenerly petitioned the courts to have the body of Michael Jason Brown, 27, of 1665 Lentz Road, disinterred and an autopsy performed.

Elderly Surgeon Survives Heart Operation
Dr. Michael DeBakey said he was reluctant to undergo the heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave him mentally or physically crippled, if he survived it. "I'd rather die," he told The New York Times in a rare interview for its Monday editions.

Scooter-riding commissionaire injured in accident
Commissionaire's scooter and papers lie on ground after collision yesterday. The commissionaire was heading south on Douglas Street and a small parts delivery vehicle was going west on Pembroke Street when the accident occurred.

City arranges for storm debris drop-offs, free building permits

The City of Bellevue has arranged for residents to drop off storm debris free at Pacific Topsoils, 1733 127th Ave. N.E.

UPDATED: Wheelchair-bound man killed in S. Side fire
Arson investigators are trying to determine what started a fire that killed a wheelchair-bound man on the South Side Wednesday night.

Woodland Mall drops charge for scooters
BOWLING GREEN - The Woodland Mall has reversed its policy of charging disabled shoppers to use its motorized scooter.

Life After the Knife

Denise Stracner bears the scars of reconstructive surgery following her weight loss. "If Id known how much happier I could be, I would have done it years ago," Denise says of her surgery.

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Home Depot's beleaguered chief executive resigns
WASHINGTON -- Embattled Home Depot Chief Executive Robert Nardelli, under fire from stockholders for earning hundreds of millions at the same time the company's stock fell and market share dropped, resigned suddenly Wednesday and will walk away with a severance package of $210 million, the company announced.

Idaho industrialist hospitalized after fall at Fiesta Bowl
BOISE, Idaho - J.R. Simplot, Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire suffered when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

Medical pioneer going strong at 98
Dr. Michael DeBakey says he was reluctant to undergo the very heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave him mentally or physically crippled, if he survived it, reports The Associated Press.

J.R. Simplot Returns to Idaho

daho's richest man, billionaire J.R. Simplot, has returned to the Gem State. He returned via air ambulance from Phoenix, Arizona where he's been undergoing treatment for a head injury.

Simplot conscious and responsive after fall
PHOENIX (AP) -- Billionaire J.R. Simplot has regained consciousness and is in stable condition today after undergoing surgery at a Phoenix hospital. The billionaire, who turns 98 on Thursday, fell from his motorized scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl Monday night.

City arranges for storm debris drop-offs, free building permits
The City of Bellevue has arranged for residents to drop off storm debris free at Pacific Topsoils, 1733 127th Ave. N.E.

Residents near Orange City face new road taxes

County Council OKs money for repairs in West Highlands County Council members Thursday night approved two controversial new taxes in the West Highlands subdivision area near Orange City, but decided to wait until 2008 to start charging it.

Catching up
Life has a way of raining bombshells on us. Some of us dodge them; others suffer direct hits and try to deal with them. So it has been for many of those people whose stories have appeared in these pages this year.

J.R. Simplot Returns to Idaho
daho's richest man, billionaire J.R. Simplot, has returned to the Gem State. He returned via air ambulance from Phoenix, Arizona where he's been undergoing treatment for a head injury.

Houston's DeBakey talks about undergoing operation he developed
NEW YORK 98-year-old Houston doctor Michael DeBakey says he was reluctant to undergo the very heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave...

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Beyond question, the most unique splash of 2007 in Greenwich will be made by the first person -- not selected yet--to dive into the new $7.5 million YMCA Olympic-size pool.

Judge OKs exhumation of body for autopsy Investigators probing China Grove man's death after May accident

A judge has given local investigators permission to exhume the body of a China Grove man killed in May while riding his motorized scooter. Rowan District Attorney Bill Kenerly petitioned the courts to have the body of Michael Jason Brown, 27, of 1665 Lentz Road, disinterred and an autopsy performed.

Billionaire injured after game
BOISE, Idaho - J.R. Simplot, Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire sustained when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

Billionaire injured after game
BOISE, Idaho - J.R. Simplot, Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire sustained when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

Santa Barbara wants visitors to go car-free
Southern California freeways make my mother hyperventilate. So when Santa Barbara assembled a package of discounts for visitors arriving by train, it seemed the perfect outing.

Idahos J.R. Simplot hurt in fall
Forbes magazines 2006 list of the richest Americans estimated the fortune of Simplot and his family at $3.2 billion. Simplot was resting in the intensive care unit at St. Josephs Hospital after undergoing surgery earlier Tuesday, company spokesman Fred Zerza said.

Houston's DeBakey talks about undergoing operation he developed

NEW YORK 98-year-old Houston doctor Michael DeBakey says he was reluctant to undergo the very heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave...

Medical pioneer going strong at 98
Dr. Michael DeBakey says he was reluctant to undergo the very heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave him mentally or physically crippled, if he survived it, reports The Associated Press.

Police called often to seniors' home
Chugach View occupants, many of whom didn't want to be identified for fear they'd be targeted for reprisal, say the steady stream of short, late-night visits are a sign of drug dealers in the building, part of what they say is escalating criminal activity in a public housing project where the majority of tenants are over 62.

Police Report

A man cross-country skiing across a lake near Algonquin Park discovered that the ice is still unsafe to travel on. At 4:45 p.m. on December 27, the Huntsville OPP received a report that a man, skiing across Oxtongue Lake, had fallen through the ice.

HOUSTON'S DeBAKEY TALKS ABOUT UNDERGOING OPERATION HE DEVELOPED
NEW YORK (AP) - Dr. Michael DeBakey says he was reluctant to undergo the very heart operation he pioneered because, at his age, he feared it might leave him mentally or physically crippled, if he survived it.