MESQUITE — About 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Mesquite City Councilwoman Donna Fairchild shot her husband, Bill, as he lay in bed. About 50 minutes later, at 4:20 a.m., she sent an e-mail to her close friend and neighbor. At 4:33 a.m., she called the city police department. After giving her address and saying her front door would be unlocked, she told the dispatcher that she would be “post-suicide” when officers arrived.
ATLANTA — U.S. health officials have raised their estimate of how many Americans have diabetes to nearly 26 million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 1 in 12 Americans have diabetes, a disease in which the body has trouble processing sugar. The new figure marks a 9 percent increase from the 2008 estimate of 23.6 million.
WASHINGTON — Buyers purchased the fewest number of new homes last year on records going back 47 years. Sales for all of 2010 totaled 321,000, a drop of 14.4 percent from the 375,000 homes sold in 2009. It was the fifth consecutive year that sales have declined after hitting record highs for the five previous years when the housing market was booming. Economists say it could be years before sales rise to a healthy rate of 600,000 units a year.
Antonio’s Pizza and Subs, 6731 W. Alexander Road, received 16 demerits Jan. 14. Violations included access to front hand sink blocked. GRADE: B.
Mark Twain once said, “No man’s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session.”
