Fort Worth (Texas), Nov 30 : American Airlines’ parent company AMR Corporation has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

AMR Corporation has lost 162 million dollars in the third quarter of 2011 and has reported losses in 14 of the last 16 quarters.

According to the BBC, the company expects the airline, the world’s fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported, to continue to operate as normal throughout the bankruptcy process.

The airline employs 78,000 staff worldwide and operates out of five major US hubs.

Texas, Aug 10: Polygamist sect leader and Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints head Warren Jeffs has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting two under age followers in Texas.

He was found guilty of coercing two teenage girls into a `spiritual marriage'. Jeff also became a father to a child of a 15 year- old girl.

A forensic analyst testified Jeffs, 55, had an almost certain DNA match to the child of a 15-year-old mother.

Texas, August 5: Polygamist sect leader and Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints head Warren Jeffs has been convicted of child assault charges in Texas.

He was found guilty of coercing two teenage girls into a `spiritual marriage'. Jeff also became a father to a child of a 15 year- old girl.

However he did not react when the verdict was read out, the BBC News (US and Canada) reports. He faces possible life imprisonment for his crime.

Houston (Texas), Feb. 10: The chief of staff of shot US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has said that she has recovered enough to speak, and has askedfor toast for breakfast.

In an e-mail, the aide said that Giffords made the verbal request on Monday when staff at the Houston hospital where she is being treated brought her a meal.

Six people were killed and several others were wounded in the January 14 gun attack launched by 22-year-old Jared Loughner.

Loughner is currently jailed pending trial for the shootings.

Arlington (Texas, US), Feb. 8: Super Bowl 2011 set a new record for the largest U. S. television audience for a single broadcast on Sunday (February 6).

The Green Bay Packers'' 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Texas drew a U. S. TV audience of 111 million, topping the 2010 final tally by almost 5 million, according to data released on Monday by broadcaster Fox.

Last year, 106.5 million watched the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts, surpassing the 106 million who tuned in for the finale of the comedy "M*A*S*H" in 1983, The Telegraph reports.

Dallas (Texas), Dec. 23 : Former president George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush were reported to be safe and sound after police detained a man near their home on Wednesday night.

According to local news reports, a man was caught erratically driving a muscle car in the upscale Preston Hollow neighborhood.

According to Fox News, as many as 13 police cars responded to what was then listed as an "executive threat" at around 8:15 p. m. Central Time, when the man-apparently accidentally-drove onto the president''s property.

Texas, July 7 : A woman in the US, who is so frustrated with being unemployed for more than a year, has offered 1,000 dollars as reward to anyone who can help her get a permanent job.

Sonja Funakura, 51, has saved 500 dollars and a friend has offered to give the other 500 dollars.

“It’s based on if I get a job offer,” Wfaa. com quoted her as saying.

“I figure the worst case scenario, I’ll give them my first paycheck. Literally. That’s better than going another year like this,” she said.

Funakura is a financial analyst and has worked as an accountant, but got laid off more than a year ago.

The Research 2000/Daily Kos’ latest McCain vs Obama opinion polls show that John McCain is currently leading Barack Obama in Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Wyoming — and McCain and Obama are statistically tied in North Dakota.

After a long-term analysis of people who took Vioxx, researchers found that the arthritis drug doubled risk of heart attack, stroke and death persisted at least a year after people stopped taking the painkiller.

The study, published by the British medical journal The Lancet, also showes the higher risk started soon after patients began taking Vioxx, though the study notes a small sample size precludes a definitive finding on this issue. The study also notes that in the same class of painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors which could result in similar harm.

John McCain is presently leading Barack Obama in Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Texas — that’s what say the recent Obama vs McCain polls conducted in these states.

Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Texas are certainly strongholds of the Republicans. Let’s check out what the recent Obama vs McCain polls conducted in these states say.

ALABAMA POLLS —

The American Heart Association, in recently released guidelines concerning heart patients, recommended that heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression. According to the recommendations published in the journal Circulation, depression is three times as common in survivors of heart attacks and those hospitalized with heart problems as compared to the general population.

A study carried out to assess interactions between patients and doctors reveals that doctors need to show more empathy when patients mention health concerns. A man diagnosed with lung cancer, while in consultation with his doctor, dispiritedly talked about what cigarettes had done to him. Instead, of showing sympathy and empathising with his cancer patient, the doctor abruptly changed the subject, asking if the man had glaucoma.

A recent U.S. study has found ways to fight the obesity and diabetes epidemics. Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that baby fat cells formed are at or before birth. These cells live inside the blood vessels that nourish fat deposits. These cells wait there to form new fat. Researchers articulated that eating excess calories may activate the cells, which leave their hiding places inside the walls of the blood vessels.

Middle aged men with high blood pressure don’t get treatment started in time said a recent study, while another said that by adopting a low salt diet, high blood pressure could be controlled.  The first study, on timely treatment of high blood pressure, was conducted by Dr. Joseph Ravenell, who did the study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; he is now an assistant professor of medicine at New York University.