-- Mary Morrison signs 'Who's Loving You?' Friday, 3-5 p.m., at The Afro-American Book Stop. -- Sherry Lee Alexander interviews Julia Reed, author of 'The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story,' Saturday at 8:30 a.m. on Writers' Forum, WRBH-FM radio (88.3 on the dial).
An accident involving several vehicles and an 18 wheeler has closed I-10 East @ FM 1135 east of Vidor, according to Marc Shepherd with the Texas Department of Transportation.
ADAMS, Rosemary M., 96, Salado, 2 p.m., Heartfield Funeral Home in Belton. Burial in Resthaven Cemetery. BROWN, Terry, 53, Rosebud, 8 a.m., 3 Horses Ranch, 326 FM 1048 near Rosebud. Burial in the 3 Horse Ranch Cemetery. Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud in charge.
Fireworks will begin around 9 p.m. at the free events in Gaithersburg, Germantown and Poolesville. Food will be available. In case of rain, the fireworks will go on at the same time July 5.
Chestnut Street between North Third and Front streets in downtown Wilmington will be closed to traffic beginning at 5 p.m. Friday to give pedestrians a walking route to Fourth of July festivities on the Cape Fear Riverfront.
The Nokia N78 cellphone has a built-in FM transmitter that allows you to share your favorite whale-call-based dance tracks with the group over the home stereo or car radio.
WCBS-FM (101.1) is staking its claim this week to having the biggest playlist of any major commercial station in the city. The "greatest hits" station is counting down its "entire library" this week.
A juvenile offender somehow scaled a fence and escaped from the recreation yard of the Montgomery County Juvenile Detention Center on Academy Drive in Conroe around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, but was soon recaptured, according to Capt. Robert Green, who heads the jail division of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
There will be no fireworks because of cost. Fireworks still are scheduled, however, for the Depot Days Festival, Aug. 21 - 24. 9:30 p.m. Sunday on the river. Fireworks will be launched from the south side of the Rock River near the 900 block of West First Street.
Free weekend events at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea are as follows: . Friday, 10:30 a.m to 3:30 p.m., Ron Owens of Mount Vernon will demonstrate the creation of baskets from willow branches. . Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Greg Kirkland of Elkhorn will demonstrate wood-turning using a variety of hardwoods.