House to vote on Senate-passed 'cliff' bill
By DAVID ESPO and ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Maneuvered into a political corner, House Republicans abandoned demands for changes in emergency legislation to prevent widespread tax increases and painful across-the-board spending cuts and cleared the way for a final, climactic New Year's night vote.
The decision capped a day of
...Leaders attend annual New Year's prayer breakfast
New Year's Day for some city and county leaders is now synonymous with the Annual City Councilman Myron Lowery's Prayer Breakfast.
Lowery started the event 22 years ago to help bring politics and prayer together to fashion a better community.
The gathering of local politicians and the people in an atmosphere of
...Illegal guns 'white hot intense focus' in 2013
Chilly Mud Island water skiers ring in 2013
Near the banks of the mighty Mississippi, crazier words may never have been spoken on a New Year's Day.
"It's actually a beautiful day to ski," one unnamed skier uttered.
The water temperatures by some bystanders were estimated to be at 48-50 F. Thirty skiers gathered on Mud Island for the Collierville Ski
...Successful New Year's countdown on third try
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A giant guitar that was supposed to drop down a pole to ring in 2011 in Nashville got stuck 10 feet above the zero mark.
The following year, a lighted musical note did not even make it that far.
So it must have been a relief to the "Bash on Broadway" organizers at the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau when this
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