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Texas high school football scoreboard for September 20

Associated Press

Posted on September 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM

Updated Saturday, Sep 21 at 10:33 AM

Here's the Texas high school football scoreboard for Friday, September 20, 2013.

CLASS 5A

Abilene Cooper 56, Lubbock Coronado 28
Allen 29, Lewisville Hebron 17
Austin Bowie 42, SA Roosevelt 21
Beaumont West Brook 53, Houston Chavez 24
Channelview 34, Aldine 21
Cibolo Steele 49, Austin Westlake 21
Clear Brook 20, The Woodlands College Park 9
Converse Judson 49, SA East Central 7
DeSoto 47, Cedar Hill 20
Duncanville 19, Midlothian 17
Edinburg Economedes 42, Edinburg Vela 37
EP El Dorado 49, EP Eastwood 17
EP Montwood 49, EP Bel Air 14
Euless Trinity 21, Bentonville, Ark. 13
FW Paschal 52, Dallas Sunset 0
Galena Park North Shore 51, Houston Madison 0
Garland Sachse 55, Lewisville Flower Mound 10
Harlingen 45, Brownsville Lopez 0
Harlingen South 14, Brownsville Memorial 0
Houston Bellaire 45, Port Arthur Memorial 42
Houston Clear Lake 39, Conroe 23
Katy 42, Katy Mayde Creek 0
La Porte 45, Clute Brazoswood 14
Laredo Alexander 28, Edcouch-Elsa 21
Lewisville 10, Arlington 7
Longview 55, Lufkin 30
Mansfield 14, South Grand Prairie 7
Mansfield Timberview 14, Grand Prairie 7
McKinney 48, North Garland 7
Mesquite Horn 47, Tyler 17
North Mesquite 30, South Garland 0
Odessa Permian 24, Abilene 14
Pflugerville Hendrickson 42, Bryan 16
Plano 35, Garland Naaman Forest 7
Plano East 21, Lewisville Marcus 13
Plano West 44, Mesquite 21
PSJA Memorial 14, San Benito 13
Rockwall 34, McKinney Boyd 14
Rockwall-Heath 28, Garland Rowlett 13
Round Rock 44, Belton 15
Round Rock Cedar Ridge 56, SA MacArthur 28
SA Churchill 31, SA Wagner 13
SA Johnson 49, New Braunfels 16
SA Reagan 62, Laredo United 33
San Angelo Central 54, Odessa 21
San Marcos 29, Waco University 8
The Woodlands 31, Monterrey Tech, Mexico 0
Weslaco 41, McAllen Memorial 14

CLASS 4A

Amarillo Caprock 30, Plainview 21
Angleton 23, Alief Taylor 20
Austin Vandegrift 41, Austin Anderson 0
Canutillo 49, Clint Horizon 7
Canyon 47, Hereford 7
Canyon Randall 40, Lubbock Monterey 28
Cedar Park 44, Round Rock Westwood 14
Cedar Park Vista Ridge 25, Austin McCallum 10
Crosby 33, Dayton 27
Dripping Springs 44, Austin Crockett 6
Dumas 21, Borger 19
Elgin 37, Georgetown 0
EP Chapin 26, EP Burges 14
EP Del Valle 54, EP Parkland 7
EP Ysleta 10, EP Riverside 0
Floresville 34, SA Lanier 12
FW Dunbar 49, N. Richland Hills Birdville 44
Georgetown East View 56, Pflugerville Connally 35
Gregory-Portland 21, Rockport-Fulton 7
Hallsville 56, Lindale 28
Humble Summer Creek 28, New Caney 0
Huntsville 42, Bryan Rudder 23
Hutto 56, Bastrop Cedar Creek 8
Leander 40, Pflugerville 3
Leander Rouse 31, Del Valle 10
Manor 26, Bastrop 23
Port Lavaca Calhoun 47, Austin Reagan 0
Prosper 57, Mansfield Lake Ridge 42
SA Brackenridge 20, Del Rio 14
SA Edison 40, SA Houston 12
SA Kennedy 25, Pearsall 7
Saginaw 57, FW North Side 3
San Angelo Lake View 52, Midland Greenwood 27
Sulphur Springs 43, Paris 9
Whitehouse 59, Marshall 3
Wolfforth Frenship 42, Amarillo 31

?CLASS 3A

Abilene Wylie 38, Brownwood 16
Amarillo River Road 22, Boys Ranch 20
Argyle 45, Kennedale 7
Athens 49, Rusk 0
Bellville 35, Sweeny 21
Big Spring 61, Andrews 48
Boerne 14, Llano 0
Brownsboro 42, Wills Point 6
Buna 28, Hemphill 6
Burkburnett 40, Bridgeport 35
Burnet 34, Fischer Canyon Lake 7
Carthage 44, Nacogdoches 40
Celina 28, Texarkana Liberty-Eylau 12
China Spring 33, Alvarado 22
Clint 21, EP Cathedral 15
Clint Mountain View 59, Mesilla Valley Christian, N.M. 7
Decatur 45, WF Hirschi 29
Emory Rains 48, Edgewood 34
Fairfield 58, Center 21
Ferris 28, Quinlan Ford 0
Fredericksburg 24, Lampasas 7
Frisco Lone Star 51, Van Alstyne 28
FW Castleberry 14, Eustace 7
Gainesville 41, Springtown 18
Gatesville 23, Taylor 13
Geronimo Navarro 42, Marion 13
Gonzales 55, Austin Lanier 6
Graham 44, Breckenridge 0
Henderson 40, Jacksonville 20
Hondo 21, Eagle Pass Winn 7
Ingleside 42, Beeville Jones 0
Iowa Park 52, Mineral Wells 13
Kaufman 27, Van 6
Kilgore 48, Mount Pleasant 20
Kingsville King 48, Hidalgo 7
Krum 27, Paradise 7
La Feria 42, Santa Rosa 3
La Vernia 31, Wimberley 16
Lake Worth 48, Hillsboro 21
Levelland 40, Brownfield 34, 5OT
Liberty Hill 49, Rockdale 28
Longview Spring Hill 35, Bullard Brook Hill 14
Lorena 50, Grandview 29
Lubbock Cooper 39, Perryton 37
Lubbock Estacado 35, Snyder 31
Mabank 27, Kemp 14
Madisonville 44, Crockett 6
Melissa 42, Farmersville 20
Mineola 28, Quitman 20
Monahans 27, Fort Stockton 0
Navasota 65, Lexington 0
Orangefield 19, Beaumont Kelly 14
Pleasanton 35, Lytle 14
Port Isabel 49, Brownsville St. Joseph 18
Poteet 50, Charlotte 6
Princeton 28, Dallas Samuell 14
Progreso 15, Lyford 12
Raymondville 36, Sinton 29
Robinson 57, Whitney 6
Sanger 55, Boyd 35
Shallowater 48, Dalhart 7
Shepherd 7, Diboll 6
Stephenville 56, Waco La Vega 23
Texarkana Pleasant Grove 15, Commerce 14
Tyler Chapel Hill 62, Palestine 27
Venus 34, Red Oak Life 21
Vernon 42, Holliday 3
Waco Connally 30, Mexia 20
West 31, Clifton 13
Wharton 35, Freeport Brazosport 25
Wilmer-Hutchins 26, Carrollton Turner 13

CLASS 2A

Alpine 60, Anthony 0
Amarillo Highland Park 38, Wheeler 20
Bangs 25, Coleman 14
Bishop 56, Benavides 0
Bowie 42, Alvord 24
Brock 54, Chico 0
Bushland 46, Pampa 27
Caddo Mills 20, Nevada Community 14
Callisburg 49, Whitewright 6
Canadian 34, Abernathy 7
Childress 42, Floydada 6
Cisco 47, Godley 19
Clyde 49, Lamesa 12
Comanche 26, Brady 7
Comfort 38, Bandera 21
Cooper 51, Pattonville Prairiland 0
Crane 28, Pecos 13
Denver City 47, Coahoma 0
Dimmitt 41, Bovina 6
Dublin 42, Valley Mills 0
Early 31, Ballinger 15
East Chambers 10, Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson 7
Eastland 36, Goldthwaite 15
Elkhart 49, Grapeland 7
Falfurrias 40, CC John Paul 0
Franklin 49, Caldwell 14
Garrison 34, San Augustine 21
George West 35, Three Rivers 14
Gladewater Union Grove 13, Big Sandy 6
Goliad 27, Mathis 0
Groveton 16, Shelbyville 14
Gunter 19, Howe 0
Hallettsville 41, Boling 0
Hawkins 48, Cumby 0
Henrietta 35, Quanah 22
Idalou 21, Friona 0
Ingram Moore 33, SA St. Anthony 26
Jefferson 21, Hooks 8
Johnson City 40, Center Point 12
Kermit 26, Eldorado 6
Leonard 66, Como-Pickton 0
Little River Academy 36, Jarrell 16
Lone Oak 48, Paris Chisum 14
Luling 33, Devine 26
Malakoff 63, Palestine Westwood 13
Merkel 26, Hawley 14
Millsap 21, Windthorst 20
Muleshoe 42, Lubbock Roosevelt 12
New Boston 41, Paris North Lamar 7
New Diana 55, Winona 6
Nocona 42, Ponder 24
Pilot Point 28, Aubrey 21
Post 27, Tahoka 20
Pottsboro 21, Anna 17
Rogers 37, Mart 36
SA Cole 38, Yorktown 6
Sadler S&S Consolidated 28, Valley View 21
Sanford-Fritch 25, Stinnett West Texas 7
Sonora 35, Harper 7
Spearman 38, Sunray 19
Stanton 42, McCamey 20
Sunnyvale 44, Maypearl 21
Teague 56, Groesbeck 22
Tom Bean 66, Blue Ridge 0
Tornillo 18, Van Horn 0
Trinity 22, New Waverly 0
Troup 28, Arp 14
Tuscola Jim Ned 21, Forsan 14
Wall 42, Sweetwater 28
Waskom 49, Queen City 7
White Oak 30, Ore City 0
Whitesboro 55, Bonham 0
Winnsboro 15, Mount Vernon 14

CLASS 1A

Anson 47, Miles 0
Anton 56, Whitharral 6
Axtell 39, Dawson 0
Beckville 30, Maud 11
Blum 34, Abbott 16
Bremond 21, Burton 0
Chilton 31, Bosqueville 28
Colmesneil 42, Evadale 8
Crosbyton 45, Sundown 28
De Leon 33, Meridian 6
Detroit 39, Trenton 0
Electra 45, Haskell 34
Evant 64, Lohn 12
Frost 49, Itasca 20
Fruitvale 48, Athens Christian School 0
Ganado 10, El Maton Tidehaven 7
Granger 13, Thrall 0
Gruver 48, Clarendon 0
Hale Center 28, Olton 7
Hamlin 40, Winters 25
Hico 48, Palmer 14
Honey Grove 34, Bogata Rivercrest 20
Hubbard 20, Italy 7
Iraan 32, Big Lake Reagan County 0
Jewett Leon 46, Somerville 20
Kerens 36, Grand Saline 15
La Pryor 34, Barksdale Nueces Canyon 18
La Villa 49, Harlingen Marine Military 6
Morton 28, Lockney 22
Mount Enterprise 28, Cushing 20
Muenster 13, Lindsay 0
Munday 57, Bronte 14
New Deal 47, Farwell 14
Ozona 39, San Angelo Grape Creek 26
Panhandle 56, Tulia 53
Petrolia 13, Archer City 12
Price Carlisle 17, Wolfe City 16
Quinlan Boles 36, Dallas Gateway 14
Ralls 42, Lubbock Christian 22
Sabinal 62, SA Brooks 6
San Saba 30, Hamilton 0
Santo 34, Olney 12
Savoy 62, Bowie Gold-Burg 6
Seymour 36, WF City View 14
Shamrock 40, Amarillo San Jacinto 13
Springlake-Earth 34, Smyer 0
Stamford 53, Colorado City 14
Stratford 29, Littlefield 14
Sudan 35, Plains 6
Wellington 56, Vega 6
Wink 28, Seagraves 15
Wortham 36, Malakoff Cross Roads 14

PRIVATE SCHOOLS?

Addison Trinity 37, Frisco Wakeland 34
Alvin Living Stones 60, Kingwood Northeast 12
Argyle Liberty Christian 40, Arlington Grace Prep 0
Austin Hyde Park 50, Austin St. Stephen 6
Austin Veritas 46, Tribe Consolidated 0
Baytown Christian 48, High Island 14
Carrollton Prince of Peace 49, Dallas Lutheran 8
Dallas Bishop Dunne 59, North Dallas 14
Dallas First Baptist 70, FW Lake Country 0
Dallas Lakehill 109, Campbell 93
EP Immanuel 64, EP Jesus Chapel 18
Flower Mound Coram Deo 40, Dallas Home School 7
FW All Saints 58, Dallas St. Mark 21
FW Nolan 41, Dallas Spruce 12
FW Southwest Christian 52, Frisco Legacy Christian 21
FW Temple Christian 24, McKinney Christian 7
FW Trinity Valley 19, Austin St. Andrew's 13
Garland Christian 71, Kennedale Fellowship 12
Grapevine Faith 33, Clarksville 6
Houston Lutheran South 52, Houston KIPP 6
Houston Second Baptist 51, SA Cornerstone 21
Irving Cistercian 28, Dallas Greenhill 21
Irving The Highlands 28, Dallas A+ Academy 6
Katy Pope John 18, Bay Area Christian 12
Marble Falls Faith 34, St. Mary's Hall 14
Midland Christian 62, Seminole 0
Plano Prestonwood 56, Dallas Roosevelt 17
Rockwall Heritage 55, Carrollton Christian 18
SA Central Catholic 28, SA Highlands 25
SA Christian 35, Blanco 11
SA Winston 59, Prairie Lea 13
Tomball Concordia 41, Hitchcock 0
Tyler Gorman 53, Tyler All Saints 12
WF Notre Dame 52, Harrold 0

SIX-MAN

Balmorhea 64, EP Faith Christian 14
Blackwell 45, Trent 0
Borden County 50, Hermleigh 38
Calvert 45, Buckholts 26
Chillicothe 38, Bryson 32
Crowell 78, Turkey Valley 40
Follett 76, Happy 28
Forestburg 42, Tioga 38
Groom 56, Higgins 0
Guthrie 46, Spur 22
Hart 66, Hedley 20
Ira 48, Garden City 28
Iredell 48, Bynum 12
Jonesboro 39, Zephyr 20
Lamesa Klondike 54, Wellman-Union 6
Lefors 107, Miami 28
Lenorah Grady 64, Midland Trinity 16
Lometa 60, Cherokee 6
Loop 54, Lorenzo 7
Loraine 64, Rotan 18
McLean 39, Silverton 18
Milford 58, Avalon 8
Newcastle 70, Knox City 32
O'Donnell 88, Wilson 53
Oakwood 41, Trinidad 28
Oglesby 45, Sidney 20
Paducah 107, Matador Motley County 68
Petersburg 34, New Home 13
Rankin 64, Meadow 32
Richland Springs 54, Gustine 0
Rising Star 53, Paint Rock 6
Robert Lee 72, Sterling City 26
Ropesville Ropes 50, Nazareth 15
Roscoe Highland 56, Ackerly Sands 42
Rule 50, Woodson 0
Sanderson 40, Fort Davis 23
Santa Anna 59, Mullin 24
Sierra Blanca 42, Marfa 36
Southland 47, Cotton Center 0
Strawn 92, Lueders-Avoca 56
Throckmorton 86, FW Nazarene 40
Vernon Northside 70, Saint Jo 24
Walnut Springs 58, Aquilla 52
Water Valley 70, Abilene Christian 24
Welch Dawson 66, Whiteface 62

OTHER?

Ardmore, Okla. 9, Dallas Prime Prep Academy 7
Azle Christian School 61, Texas Home Educators Sports Association 16
Big Sandy Harmony (Gilmer) 28, New London West Rusk 0
Boerne-Champion 59, Marble Falls 37
Casady, Okla. 36, Dallas Episcopal 33
Centennial High School , N.M. 63, Fabens 21
Christian Academy of SA 59, SA Atonement 14
El Paso Eastlake 54, San Elizario 0
Faustina Academy 56, Weatherford Christian 6
Fort Bend Christian 14, Cypress Community Christian 0
Fort Worth Christian 30, Gainesville State School 14
Granbury North Central 80, Mineral Wells Community Christian 32
Holland Hall, Okla. 37, Arlington Oakridge 7
Mount Calm High School def. Arlington Newman, forfeit
Plainview Christian def. Lazbuddie, forfeit
SA Northside Clark 21, SA Northside Stevens 14
SA Castle Hills 41, Fredericksburg Heritage 27
SA Northside Brennan 48, SA Southwest 0
SA Northside Marshall 33, SA Northside Holmes 14
Saginaw Boswell 57, FW Polytechnic 13
San Antonio Believers 50, SA New Life 0
Stephenville Faith 48, Brownwood Victory Life 0
Texhoma, Okla. 29, Booker 28
Waco Live Oak Classical School 48, San Marcos Christian Homeschool 2
Willow Park Trinity 54, Watauga Harvest 36

POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS?

Alba-Golden vs. Celeste, canceled.
Altair Rice vs. East Bernard, canceled.
Aransas Pass vs. Orange Grove, postponed to Sept. 21.
Arlington High Point vs. Bryan Allen Academy, postponed
Atlanta vs. Gladewater, postponed to Sept. 21.
Barbers Hill vs. Houston King, postponed to Sept. 21.
Bellaire Episcopal vs. Brookshire Royal, canceled.
Ben Bolt vs. Pettus, postponed to Sept. 21.
Bullard vs. Huntington, canceled.
Carrizo Springs vs. Jourdanton, suspended
Cayuga vs. Overton, canceled.
CC Carroll vs. CC Calallen, canceled.
CC King vs. Victoria East, canceled.
CC Tuloso-Midway vs. CC West Oso, suspended
Christoval vs. Mason, canceled.
Cleveland vs. Houston Washington, postponed
College Station vs. Austin St. Michael, canceled.
Conroe Caney Creek vs. Montgomery, postponed to Sept. 21.
Covington vs. Cranfills Gap, postponed
Cypress Lakes vs. Cypress Springs, postponed
Daingerfield vs. Gilmer, postponed to Sept. 21.
Deer Park vs. Dickinson, suspended
Edinburg North vs. La Joya Juarez-Lincoln, suspended
Edna vs. Yoakum, canceled.
El Campo vs. Richmond Foster, canceled.
Fort Bend Kempner vs. Houston Westside, postponed
Frankston vs. Alto, postponed to Sept. 21.
FW Country Day vs. Houston Kinkaid, postponed
Galveston Ball vs. Aldine MacArthur, postponed to Sept. 21.
Galveston O'Connell vs. Houston Westbury Christian, postponed to Sept. 21.
Giddings vs. Columbus, postponed
Gladewater Sabine vs. Harleton, postponed to Sept. 21.
Glen Rose vs. Crandall, canceled.
Granbury Cornerstone vs. Lingleville, canceled.
Hamshire-Fannett vs. Liberty, canceled.
Holland vs. Bartlett, postponed to Sept. 21.
Houston Christian vs. Houston St. John's, postponed to Sept. 21.
Houston Davis vs. Houston Sharpstown, postponed
Houston Jones vs. Danbury, postponed
Houston Lamar vs. Alief Elsik, postponed
Houston Langham Creek vs. Cypress Fairbanks, postponed to Sept. 21.
Houston North Forest vs. Houston Milby, postponed to Sept. 21.
Houston Sam Houston vs. Cleveland Tarkington, canceled.
Houston St. Thomas vs. Huffman Hargrave, canceled.
Houston Worthing vs. Fort Bend March shall, canceled.
Iola vs. Anderson-Shiro, canceled.
Joaquin vs. Burkeville, canceled.
Kenedy vs. Woodsboro, canceled
Klein Forest vs. Humble Kingwood, postponed to Sept. 21.
Laird Hill Leverett's Chapel vs. March shall Christian Academy, postponed
Lake Travis vs. A&M Consolidated, canceled.
Laredo Nixon vs. Zapata, postponed
Lasara vs. Bruni, suspended
Leakey vs. Runge, canceled.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville vs. Coldspring-Oakhurst, suspended
Louise vs. Vanderbilt Industrial, postponed
Lovelady vs. Hull-Daisetta, postponed to Oct. 17.
Lubbock Kingdom Prep vs. Lubbock Harmony, postponed
Magnolia Legacy vs. Conroe Covenant, postponed
Magnolia West vs. Willis, postponed
Menard vs. Rocksprings, canceled.
Mertzon Irion County vs. June ction, canceled.
Monte Alto vs. CC London, postponed
Normangee vs. Snook, postponed to Sept. 21.
Pasadena Rayburn vs. Houston Northbrook, postponed to Sept. 21.
Rio Hondo vs. Rio Grande City Grulla, canceled.
Robstown vs. Odem, canceled.
Rosenberg Terry vs. Fort Bend Travis, canceled.
Round Rock Christian vs. Williamson County Home School, postponed
Sabine Pass vs. Warren, canceled.
Santa March ia vs. San Diego, canceled.
Saratoga West Hardin vs. Hardin, canceled.
Schulenburg vs. Flatonia, canceled.
Silsbee vs. Livingston, canceled.
Smithville vs. Sealy, canceled.
Somerset vs. Cuero, canceled.
Spring vs. Klein Collins, postponed to Sept. 21.
Spring Westfield vs. Klein, postponed to Sept. 21.
Stafford vs. Splendora, canceled.
Tenaha vs. Pineland West Sabine, canceled.
Thorndale vs. Hallettsville Sacred Heart, canceled.
Tomball Rosehill vs. Bryan St. Joseph, canceled.
Tyler Lee vs. Texarkana Texas, postponed to Sept. 21.
Universal City Randolph vs. Shiner, canceled.
Valera Panther Creek vs. Rochelle, canceled.
Victoria West vs. Bay City, suspended
Waco Methodist vs. Lockhart Lighthouse Christian, canceled.
Waco Texas Christian vs. Bryan Brazos Christian, canceled.
Waller vs. Brenham, postponed to Sept. 21.
Weatherford Home School vs. Dallas Academy, canceled.
West Columbia vs. Houston Kashmere, postponed
West Orange-Stark vs. Jasper, canceled.

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Monday, September 30, 2013

US facing first government shutdown in 17 years

Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers have one final day to try to prevent the first US government shutdown in 17 years, but a deal appeared remote Monday as congressional leaders showed little intent to compromise.

With Congress going into crunch sessions ahead of an 11:59 pm (0359 GMT Tuesday) deadline, a House Republican leader offered a glimmer of hope when he hinted that his party could offer a new plan that might pass muster in the Democratic-held Senate.

"I think the House will get back together in enough time, send another provision not to shut the government down, but to fund it, and it will have a few other options in there for the Senate to look at again," number three House Republican Kevin McCarthy told Fox News Sunday.

Congress must pass a stopgap funding measure before the new fiscal year begins Tuesday or much of the US federal government will close down.

The procedure became dramatically more complicated when Republicans linked the budget legislation to an attempt to thwart President Barack Obama's health care law.

The impasse is already affecting global markets: In Asian trading on Monday oil prices tumbled, markets slumped and the Japanese yen jumped in value while the dollar weakened, mostly due to fears that a budget deal will not be reached before a shutdown.

After the Senate passed a straightforward spending bill on Friday, the House countered after hours of debate Saturday by attaching amendments seeking a one-year delay to so-called Obamacare, as well as repeal of a medical device tax which helps fund the law.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who refused to call the chamber into session over the weekend despite the rapidly approaching deadline, warned before the vote that such a measure would be dead on arrival.

The White House also sharply rebuked the move, and warned that the president would veto it even if the Senate did approve it.

On Monday "the Senate will do exactly what we said we would do and reject these measures," Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said."

"At that point, Republicans will be faced with the same choice they have always faced: put the Senate's clean funding bill on the floor and let it pass with bipartisan votes, or force a Republican government shutdown."

Republican McCarthy hinted that if the Senate rejects the measure as expected, the new House approach would still retain a provision "that I believe the Senate can accept, that will have fundamental changes into Obamacare."

That provision may well be the medical device tax. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the tax in March, but it was a non-binding budget resolution.

The Senate's number two Democrat, Dick Durbin, appeared open to the possibility.

"I'm willing to look at that, but not with a gun to my head, not with the prospect of shutting down the government," he told the CBS Sunday talk show "Face the Nation."

With Republicans and Democrats in a dangerous game of political chicken, the government was on the verge of ordering hundreds of thousands of federal workers to stay home.

As lawmakers traded blame, the Democratic leadership sounded resigned about a pending shutdown.

Asked if he believed government would shutter on Tuesday, Durbin grimly said "I'm afraid I do."

House Speaker John Boehner has been under intense pressure from his party's most conservative wing, a small band of lawmakers who forced Republican leaders to double down on their anti-Obamacare strategy.

Reid insisted that "the American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists," referring to the ultra-conservative faction of Republicans.

But Boehner warned that if the Senate waits until hours before the deadline to vote, "it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-plot-unified-position-shutdown-crisis-171104310.html

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Roche immunotherapy drug may be 'game changer' in lung cancer

By Kate Kelland

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An experimental Roche drug that seems to work particularly well against lung cancer in smokers may be a "game changer" for these normally difficult-to-treat patients, researchers said on Sunday.

Presenting detailed data from an early-stage trial of the drug, called MPDL3280A, in patients with a form of the disease called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), investigators said what they had found was "great news for lung cancer patients".

Of 53 patients with NSCLC tumours treated with the drug, 23 percent saw their tumours shrink, according to results presented at the European Cancer Congress (ECC) in Amsterdam.

But the most encouraging numbers were among smokers, where the response rate was 26 percent compared with 10 percent of patients who had never smoked, said Professor Jean-Charles Soria of France's Institut Gustave Roussy, who led the study.

Lung cancer, which is usually caused by smoking, is extremely difficult to treat successfully and once it has started to spread to other parts of the body, it is incurable.

Roche's MPDL3280A is an engineered antibody that targets a protein called PD-L1 - a defence mechanism that tumours use to trick the immune system's T-cells into being inactive.

By blocking PD-L1, the drug allows the T-cells to wake up and recognize the cancer, and then grow and multiply to attack it more efficiently.

Rival drugmakers including Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb are developing immunotherapy drugs in a similar class of drugs known as PD-1 inhibitors, also designed to mobilize the body's own immune system to fight cancer.

Soria's team suspected that because lung tumours in smokers have a higher rate of genetic mutations than tumours of lung cancer patients who have never smoked, their immune systems may be more likely to respond vigorously when PD-L1 is blocked.

So they drilled down into the data more closely, separating out the 81 percent of the 53 patients who were smokers or former smokers, and the 19 percent of them who were not.

"And bingo, this is the first targeted agent (drug) that shows more activity in smokers than in non-smokers," Soria told reporters in a briefing at the ECC.

Cora Sternberg, co-chair of the ECC's scientific committee and an oncologist at the San Camillo and Forlanini hospitals in Rome who was not involved in the study, said that although the results were from very early-stage trials, they suggested the drug was "definitely a game changer" in lung cancer.

Roche is also investigating MPDL3280A's potential for treating a range of other cancers, including melanoma skin cancer and kidney cancer, where it has already shown some promise in early trials.

Cornelis van de Velde, an oncologist at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands and president of the European Cancer Organisation, said Soria's was an extremely important study for NSCLC patients, who currently have very few treatment options that make much impact on their disease.

"Hundreds of millions of euros have been spent chasing the dream of immunotherapy for lung cancer patients, but with zero results." he said. "These early findings..suggest that it has the potential to open new therapeutic approaches."

(Editing by David Cowell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/roche-immunotherapy-drug-may-game-changer-lung-cancer-093453959--finance.html

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Video: Evaluating collision avoidance systems

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Friday, September 27, 2013

Bynes' lawyer hopes for resolution to NY bong case

NEW YORK (AP) ? A lawyer for Amanda Bynes said Thursday that he thinks her New York bong-throwing case will be resolved soon.

The troubled actress didn't appear during a brief court appearance in Manhattan; she remains in a psychiatric hospital in California.

She was charged earlier this year with reckless endangerment and marijuana possession after building managers called police because they said she was smoking pot in the lobby of her Manhattan apartment. When officers entered her 36th floor apartment, they said they saw her heave a bong out the window.

The 27-year-old "Hairspray" star later appeared in court in a disheveled blond wig and said she didn't do anything wrong. It was one episode in a string of erratic incidents involving the star in recent months. She was institutionalized in August after authorities said she set a small fire in the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Bynes pleaded not guilty to drunken driving in California, and her attorney there argued Wednesday that she needed a competency hearing because she was unfit for trial.

The New York judge on Thursday said Bynes didn't need a separate mental health hearing. Her attorney, Gerald Shargel, said she remained hospitalized and wished her a speedy recovery. He said he's working with prosecutors to resolve the case. That could mean charges would be dropped if she agrees to stay out of trouble.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bynes-lawyer-hopes-resolution-ny-bong-case-160301789.html

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg to make adult-themed animated film ...

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Source: http://blog.albionalliance.org.uk/2013/09/seth-rogen-evan-goldberg-to-make-adult-themed-animated-film-sausage-party/

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

SPORTS: Golf teams see weekend successes

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Source: thedartmouth.com --- Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Dartmouth?s men?s and women?s golf teams traveled this past weekend to compete in large collegiate tournaments at Cornell University and Yale University. The Dartmouth men?s golf team traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., to compete at the Cornell Invitational. The team collectively shot a total of 301 points, securing a fourth-place finish. Dartmouth opened shooting 305 and shot 297 in the second round. Their 54-hole total was 903, just one stroke shy of beating third-place winner Cornell. The men competed at the Robert Trent Jones golf course, which boasts a total of 904 yards on its par-71 course. However, weather conditions provided a challenge for the invitational and the players had to end day one early, finishing round two and starting round three on Sunday. Towson University and Drexel University proved to be great competition at the invitational, with Towson taking first place with a total score of 895 and Drexel coming in only five strokes behind for second. While the invitational was only the second tournament of the season, the Big Green men had an impressive showing, with 37 birdies and placing second for par-3 scoring. Jeffrey Lang ?17 had a remarkable tournament, scoring 13 birdies overall and posting round scores of 74, one-over-par 72, and one-under-par 70. These scores earned Lang second place individually, with Drexel sophomore Christopher Crawford securing first. Sean Fahey ?17 also performed well this weekend, with a fin ...

Source: http://thedartmouth.com/2013/09/24/sports/golf/

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