Among my goals as a minister, businessman and community leader is to make our beloved nation better! As a young African-American man, I can relate to Michelle Obama's statement. As a registered member of the GOP, there is an aweful lot we as a party can learn from this spirit of optimism that is engendering the support of young Americans.

State offers help after oil company closes

WATERBURY (AP) The state is offering to help 12,000 customers of a Waterbury oil company that abruptly went out of business and left many people with pre-paid contracts in limbo.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell says state investigators will go to the headquarters of F. and S. Oil Company first thing on Monday to demand access to its business records.

She says the state will also seek a court-appointed receiver to audit the records, and go after any funds that may be missing. State officials will see if they can freeze the company's assets and return money to thousands of customers with pre-buy contracts.

Rell also says her office will work to set up oil deliveries by other companies to F. and S. customers to make sure no one goes without heat.

The state says F. and S. customers can call a state hot line at 1-800-842-2649 beginning Monday morning.

BA unveils its new Heathrow terminal

Unmanned check-in kiosks can also screen a passenger's passport or scan a visa.

Terminals can be profitable in an era of tightened security, as travelers show up hours before their flights -- and then shop or eat while waiting to take off.

Radio & TV Talk

Amazingly, "Prison Break" was the top show in Atlanta but ranked just 34th nationwide. Only one program (NFL Sunday football) was both in the top 10 locally and nationally.

Juanita Bynum, the Pentecostal televangelist who recently filed for divorce from Bishop Thomas Weeks III after his alleged assault on her in August, will be a guest DJ Thursday from 10 a.m.

Cajuns can’t hold on against Jags

MOBILE, Ala. The UL womens basketball teams season ended on Wednesday night following a 49-40 loss at South Alabama in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.

Louisiana (8-22) dropped to 3-14 all-time in Mobile and 2-7 all-time in the Mitchell Center with the loss.

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Food at certain Dallas-area hospitals is a cut above

If she has a particularly good restaurant meal, she'll slip the chef her card and invite him to call if he's looking for a new job.

"Rush Presbyterian in Chicago," she said with dreamy covetousness, "has a pastry chef."

Then, there's the you-get-to-have-a-life factor. Mr. Vorstenbosch, who has a wife and baby son, doesn't have to work the traditional nights-and-weekends restaurant schedule.

So how was the food? Spectacular. We had pork tenderloin dusted with chipotle chili, salmon with cucumber slaw, beef tenderloin with Chianti sauce, braised short ribs with smoked gouda grits, and best of all – I wish I had some now – wild mushroom enchiladas. It was all better than anything I had eaten in the previous month.

Well, nobody wants to go to the hospital.

Hospital scores well in on the spot inspection

The Healthcare Commission team arrived for the inspection on January 31. The hospital received their draft report on February 11.