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Brownsville is banning plastic bags. Read More

One week before Christmas, Jeff Cronkhite gave his 2-year-old nephew, Dylan Rotert, the ultimate gift — a kidney. Read More

Ten to 15 seconds in a full-body scanner could have kept Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab off Flight 253 on Christmas Day. But the controversial machines aren't standard equipment in airports here and around the world. Read More

Sports from basketball to boxing have had the benefit of provocative documentaries made about their personalities: it's impossible to view collegiate athletics -- and the passing smoke of NBA potential -- quite the same after "Hoop Dreams," and it's difficult to fully understand Ali's cultural imprint without a viewing of "When We Were Kings." Read More

Georgia-Pacific Packaging LLC has announced that its Georgia-Pacific RPC LLC subsidiary has acquired Orbis Container Services, a reusable plastic container business, from Orbis Corp., a subsidiary of Menasha Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More