The Texas Municipal Fire Training School ended its weeklong 75th anniversary celebration at Brayton Fire Training Field Wednesday night with several large firefighting displays, fireworks and birthday cake.

Researchers at Texas A&M have been given a $900,000 grant from NASA to study new sterilization methods for spacecraft. The research is being conducted by Suresh Pillai, director of the National Center for Electron Beam Food Research, and Les Braby, a research professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering.

CRAWFORD - Hundreds of people descended on this one-stoplight town a few miles from President Bush's ranch Wednesday night - half to show their support and the other half to see a documentary criticizing his administration.

Former student William Rogers, Class of '02, CEO of HomeCom Inc. runs a bundle of wires through the stud framing of a house under construction just south of Navasota.

BAQOUBA, Iraq - A suicide car bomb tore through a downtown street Wednesday, killing 68 Iraqis and turning a bustling area of shops and fruit stalls into charred corpses, twisted metal and burning cars - the deadliest attack in the month since U.S. authorities handed sovereignty to an interim government.

Ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremonies for new urban apartments behind Northgate are scheduled for 4 p.m. tomorrow at the corner of Cross Street and College Main.

Elsa Murano and John Owens have been named candidates for the top agricultural position in the Texas A&M University System.

BOSTON (AP) - John Edwards aims to infuse John Kerry's New England convention with youth, energy and Southern roots when he accepts the Democratic nomination for vice president.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - An Army sergeant accused of carjacking a sheik's sport utility vehicle in Iraq testified Wednesday an officer told him to do it, and that he didn't think it was a criminal act.

HOUSTON - The state has awarded more than $80 million in grants to replace or retrofit engines with pollution reduction technology as it tries to bring air quality into compliance with federal mandates in some major cities, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Anthony Anderson, the rotund comedic co-star of "Kangaroo Jack" and the original "Barbershop," has been arrested and charged with aggravated rape while shooting a movie.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The parents of an American jailed without charges in Saudi Arabia are suing the United States in what lawyers say is the first lawsuit filed on behalf of a U.S. citizen detained in a third country at the U.S. government's request.

IRVINE, Calif. - Authorities found ground-up castor beans with trace amounts of the poison ricin in two jars of baby food that had been tampered with, officials said Wednesday.

LONDON - Crude oil shot to new highs Wednesday, hitting $43 a barrel in New York, as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company.