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TAKE 1W0 Looking for local birthdays and anniversaries? Curious about corrections? Find local birthdays and anniversaries at the end of Datebook. News-Journal corrections will appear in the left-hand column on the front page. PAGE 2A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 WHAT'S HAPPENING I ljfjf jf I I II Datebook Laws differ for city and school buses UESTION: There's a state ANSWER LINE told by an employee of the Fourth Street store that the doors would remain. Could you find out why? I wish I had a better answer than what I'm about to give you, but I'm afraid a Wal-Mart spokeswoman didn't provide a specific answer. Here's what she said: "As part of our commitment to serving our customers, we are should probably try to avoid traveling behind the bus and to stay a safe distance behind the bus if they find themselves behind one." Also, he noted that city buses stop at railroad tracks before crossing, and they are not allowed to turn right on a red signal.

"Drivers need to consider this whenever traveling behind a city bus," he said. case, we installed all new tile, counters and fixtures in the bathrooms. We look forward to serving our customers in Longview and throughout Texas this holiday season." I need a phone number of a seamstress in Longview if there are any. Is there anyone who makes lampshades in Longview? Those are questions I received separately that I'm using just as a reminder that Answer Line cannot locate for-profit companies or individuals who provide goods and services for readers. It kills me not to be able to help y'all, but we don't want to recommend one service provider over another.

Answer Line appears Thursday and Saturday. Email questions to leave a message at (903) 232-7208 or write to P.O. Box 1792, Longview, TX 75606. I law that requires drivers to stop for school buses that are stopped when they are loading or unloading students. Does the same law apply to city buses? ANSWER: No, it does not.

That said, you still should use caution when driving around a city bus that's stopping for passengers to get on or off. "Drivers passing a city bus that is stopped to load or unload passengers need to keep in mind that it is always possible for a passenger or any other person to suddenly enter into the roadway from the area around the bus where they are not able to be seen, so it is advised to pass the bus with caution," said Longview police Sgt. Buddy Molpus. "Also, drivers should realize that the city buses do make frequent stops, so they JO LEE FERGUSON PAST ANSWER LINES AT It appears the remodeling of the Fourth Street Wal-Mart is complete without removing the old doors to the men and women's re-stroom as has been done at other Wal-Mart stores in our area. I was CLICK IT UP: Get information on other events and add your own local events at calendar.

TODAY Green Street Recreation Center, line dance, 10 a.m.; mahjong, noon; bridge club, 1 p.m. today, 814 S. Green Longview. Membership or day pass is reguired. Information: Lorrie Suddeth, (903) 237-1279.

Longview Duplicate Bridge Club, ACBL sanctioned, 10:30 a.m. today, 1409 N.W. Loop 281, Suite Longview. Information: M. Graham, (903) 918-8642.

The Greater Longview Newcomers Club, 11 a.m. today, Summit Club, 3700 Judson Road, Longview. Program: Angels of Heaven. Meal: $13. Informationreservations: (903) 295-3524 and (903) 297-1903.

Longview Ambucs, noon today, First United Methodist Church, 400 N. Fredonia Longview. Yoga, led by Carolyn Short, noon to 1 p.m. today, Longview Museum of Fine Arts Premier II Gallery, 215 E. Tyler downtown.

Members: free; nonmembers: $5. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon and 6:30 p.m. daily, yellow house at Seventh and Olive streets, behind St. Anthony Catholic Church. Hotline: (800) 979-4191.

Noon and Nite Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 a.m., 12:15 and 8 p.m. daily; women's meetings, 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, 704 Glencrest Lane, Longview. Information: (903) 452-2294. Narcotics Anonymous-Living Recovery, 12:15 and 8 p.m.

daily, 3713 W. Marshall Longview. Information: (903) 234-5449. Big Sandy City Council, 5 p.m. today, City Hall, 100 N.Tyler Big Sandy.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly, No. 996, weigh-in, 5:30 p.m.; meeting, 6 p.m. today, Greggton United Methodist Church, 1101 Pine Tree Road, Longview. Information: Johnny Irwin, (903) 297-3220, or topstx996yahoo Mending Fences, 6 p.m. today, Trails End Cowboy Church, 212-1 Lansing Switch Road, Longview.

12-step recovery. Information: (903) 452-7155. Ambucs of East Texas, 6:30 p.m. today, Bodacious Bar-B-Q, 7180 Texas 42, Kilgore. Information: Sonya Rigano, (903) 736-7379.

Knights of Pythias Lodge 26, dinner, 6 p.m.; meeting, 7 p.m. today, KP Hall, 206 N. Center Longview. Lake Country Harmony, Sweet Adelines International Chorus chapter, rehearsal, 7 p.m. today, Gilmer High School, 850 Buffalo Gilmer.

Information: (903) 576-4926. Narcotics Anonymous-New Attitudes, 7 p.m. daily, Inspiration House, 734 S. Green Longview. Alateen, 8 p.m.

today, Pine Tree Church of Christ, 3221 Dundee Road, Longview. Information: (903) 237-8342. Al-Anon Spring Hill Family Group, 8 p.m. today, Pine Tree Church of Christ, 3221 Dundee Road, Longview. Information: www.texas-al-anon.org.

LOCAL BIRTHDAYS Oliver Charles, Kathryn Cromer, Samuel Ellis, Kimberly Fitch, Ethan Harrison, Jimmy Hitt, Judy Lancaster, Charles McAteer, Daniel Gutierrez-Mendez, Paul Fitch, Paul Smith, Cheyenne Summers. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS Actor-director Woody Allen is 81. World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 77. Actress-singer Bette Midler is 71. Singer Gilbert O'Sullivan is 70.

Actress Charlene Tilton is 58. Actress-model Carol Alt is 56. Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman is 46. RSB singer Janelle Monae is 31. The Weekly Planner appears Mondays.

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FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Dan HenryAP Photo Shaylyn Jeffery holds the building owner's dog Payday on Wednesday while outside of the demolished Rosalie Plaza Grocery where she had opened up a T-shirt business one month earlier in Rosalie, Ala. A suspected tornado touched down in the area overnight. Southern plagues: Drought, flood, fire and killer storms reinvesting in our existing stores with remodels and upgrades. We remodeled several hundred stores last year and this year and plan to remodel hundreds more in 2017. Each store remodel is based on the specific needs of that store.

In this man Dean Flener. No details were immediately available. Shirley Knight, whose family owns a small propane business in Rosalie, said the storm crashed in on them in the middle of the night. Daybreak revealed mangled sheets of metal, insulation and a ladder hanging in trees. "We had a plaza, a service station and several buildings connected together, and it's all gone," said Knight, adding that the storm also destroyed a church and damaged buildings at a nearby Christmas tree farm.

The same storm apparently hit a closed day care center in the community of Ider, injuring seven people, including three children who had left their mobile home to seek shelter, said Anthony Clifton, DeKalb County emergency management director. CONTACT US Newsroom (903) 237-7744 Sports (903) 237-7760 Answer Line (903) 232-7208 Retail ads (903)237-7736 Classified ads (903)758-3000 or (800) 395-8212 Retail billing (903) 237-7705 Accounts 237-7711 Classified billing. (903) 237-7709 NEWS Digest WASHINGTON, D.C. New rule bans smoking in public housing WASHINGTON Smoking will be prohibited in public-housing residences nationwide under a federal rule announced Wednesday. Officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the rule will go into effect early next year, but they are giving public housing agencies a year and a half to put smoke-free policies into effect.

HUD proposed the ban a year ago to curb exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. COLOMBIA Pilot told controllers 'no fuel' before crash MEDELLIN, Colombia The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight. In the sometimes chaotic exchange with the air traffic tower, the pilot could be heard repeatedly requesting authorization to land because of "fuel problems." A female controller explained another plane had been diverted with mechanical problems and had priority, instructing the pilot to wait seven minutes. As the plane circled in a holding pattern, the pilot grew more desperate. "Complete electrical failure, without fuel," he said in the tense final moments before the plane crashed.

NORTH CAROLINA Prosecutor clears officer in man's death CHARLOTTE, N.C. A prosecutor on Wednesday cleared a Charlotte police officer in the killing of a black man whose death touched off civil unrest, and he presented detailed evidence to rebut assertions that the slain man was unarmed. Officer Brentley Vinson was justified in opening fire on Keith Scott and won't face charges, Charlotte-Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray said. In a 40-minute presentation to news reporters, Murray produced evidence that Scott was armed with a handgun and the officer who killed him feared Scott would shoot. FROM WIRE REPORTS MISSED YOUR PAPER? Contact us between 6-10 a.m.

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Sundays. To subscribe or for delivery guestions call (903) 237-7777. 3 more bodies found in Tennessee wildfire ruins GATLINBURG, Tenn. Three more bodies were found in the ruins of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses in the Great Smoky Mountains area, raising the death toll to seven, a Tennessee mayor said Wednesday. Search-and-rescue missions continued, and Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters said they had found three people who had been trapped since the fires started spreading wildly in high winds on Monday night.

The mayor said the three were OK. "That is some good, positive news for a change," he said. State law enforcement set up a hotline for people to report missing friends and family. Officials have not said how many people they believe are missing. Gatlinburg Police Chief Randall Brackins said they have searched about 30 percent or less of the city so far Mayor Mike Werner said officials were discussing reopening the city on Friday so business owners can assess damage and perhaps begin paying their employees again.

Associated Press BY JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Tornadoes that dropped out of the night sky killed five people in two states and injured at least a dozen more early Wednesday, adding to a seemingly biblical onslaught of drought, flood and fire plaguing the South. The storms tore through just as firefighters began to get control of wildfires that killed seven people and wiped out more than 150 homes and businesses around the resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In Alabama, the weather system dumped more than 2 inches of rain in areas that had been parched by months of choking drought. At least 10 confirmed twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the National Weather Service said.

Tombstones were knocked over in the cemetery behind the badly damaged Rosalie Baptist Church, near where three people died in northeastern Alabama. "It looks like the rapture happened up there," said church member Steve Hall, referring to the end-times belief of many Christians. "Are we thinking the Lord is trying to get our attention?" said the pastor, Roger Little. The National Weather Service was assessing damage from multiple possible tornadoes across the region. At least five hit Alabama, and three more struck southern Tennessee, and one each was confirmed in Louisiana and Mississippi, forecasters said.

A possible tornado was spotted on the ground Wednesday a few miles from Atlanta, and flights were briefly delayed at the city's main airport, but no major damage occurred. Three people were killed and one person critically injured in a mobile home after an apparent twister hit tiny Rosalie, about 115 miles northeast of Birmingham, said Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen. A suspected tornado was responsible for the death of a husband and wife in southern Tennessee's Polk County, while an unknown number of others were injured, said Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokes- Street address 320 E. Methvin St. Longview, TX 75601 Mailing address P.O.

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