Briefs: Four Links Without a Lot of Exposition

• A Key West family will get an artificial white Christmas courtesy of the Weather Channel.


• "Larry the Cable Guy" has donated $1.2 million to build a children's wing onto a Nebraska rehabilitation hospital. He was moved to make the act by a video, the hospital distributed.


• Four sisters, including a Marine are launching a support website for the 13,000 active-duty, female Marines.


• Sen. Robert Byrd has asked the EPA Administrator to develop clear rules governing the issuance of mining permits. Currently, 79 projects are in some state of limbo and the request is part of his continuing efforts on the subject.

Briefs: Clearing Out the Cache

• Fort Campbell Experiences Baby Boom


• Photo Spread May Violate NCAA Bylaws


• Historic Newspaper Lands New Owners


• Comedian George Wallace extends toy drive


• Air Force planning newspaper for S. Korea units


• 'Marcia Brady' stumps for less fortunate on Maui


• Obama nominates Persily as Pipeline Coordinator


• One Fort Riley soldier saw snow for the first time


• Aurora, Joliet murals to tell Lincoln Highway story


• Farmer sees divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy


• Geauga sheriff posts pictures of wanted on Facebook


• Vancouver student rescued after tongue stuck to flagpole

Briefs

• Since 1979, Alice McCain of Martinsburg (WV) has been collecting black Santas and now that she's amassed around 90, they have been incorporated into a holiday exhibit at a local museum.


• The Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a $900 million dollar system of seawalls and levees to manage the Louisiana coast, but they've left tiny Isle de Jean Charles, home of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe out of their plans because it has flooded so much lately, only a few dozen residents remain.


• One assumes that a few children may have been scarred, when a Shriner suffers a fatal accident during a holiday parade.


• Apparently Roanoke (VA) has a case of metro-envy.


• Six nights a week, Sardos Grill is a regular karaoke bar, but on Tuesdays, they cater to the porn industry and it becomes a place careers can be launched and where deals are often made.


• A South Florida anchor wonders via her blog, what future archeologists may think of us, when they see our art.


• A local man is in a crappy movie, so Family Dollar has a display.


• Sen. Orrin Hatch has earned an aisle seat with a bit of history.