| Officer says obstructed view caused Friday wreck
A Henderson County Sheriff's Department officer escaped injury Friday afternoon when the county vehicle he was driving struck a van at the intersection of Edmonson and Cream Level Road in North Athens.According to Department of Public Safety reports, Sgt. Thomas Lee Robertson, 36, was driving a 2007 Ford pick-up east on Edmonson St. when the vehicle approached the intersection with Cream Level Road. Robertson attempted to make a left turn and struck the side of a 2006 Dodge Caravan driven by Sylvia De la Garza, 50, of Mabank.De la Garza refused transport by ambulance and was taken by a private vehicle to East Texas Medical Center in Athens, where she was treated and released. Two small children who were passengers in the van were not injured.DPS reports state Robertson's view of the intersection was impaired by large brush and trees.
Hope for new cancer therapies
The team is absolutely on the mark with this work. It's enormously promising,'' said Erik Thompson, a breast cancer scientist with St Vincent's Institute and the University of Melbourne. That's so, he said, as the group - led by Joan Massague, head of the cancer biology and genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York - have revealed key steps breast cancer cells take when they spread to the lungs and bone in a process called metastasis. "Metastasis is what's killing people with cancer,'' said Associate Professor Thompson. "The pathways which allow tumour cells to spread through the body and stay there, resistant to chemotheraphy, are exactly the pathways we have to understand and conquer,'' claimed Professor Thompson. Melbourne-based oncologist and breast cancer scientist Geoff Lindeman agreed, but cautioned that the findings must be proven in clinical trials.
Cozy getaway near Starved Rock
Inside, the sitting room welcomes its guests in subdued elegance; John tends the corner bar in the appetizer hour before dinner. Table settings change for the morning and evening meals: country casual for breakfast (included in the room price), white and burgundy linen for the extra-cost dinners.
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