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➤➤ STOCK MARKETWhere the stock markets, local stocks

and oil and natural gas prices were at the close of business yesterday:Dow Jones 12,044.40 +0.50%S&P 500 1,304.28 +0.71%Nasdaq 2,715.61 +0.54%NYSE 8,248.53 +0.59%British Petroleum $45.75 +0.20%CenterPoint $16.10 +0.50%Chevron $99.93 +0.86%ConocoPhillips $76.30 +1.49%Consolidated $17.75 +0.45%Entergy $73.69 +0.08%Exxon $82.12 +0.91%Lockheed Martin $80.47 +1.81%Lufkin Industries $79.70 +1.89%Temple $22.15 -0.58%Walmart $52.59 -0.11%Light, sweet crude oil $100.59Natural gas $3.896

➤➤ NATIONMan arrested for using sword to rob pharmacy

LYNCHBURG, Va..(AP).—.Police.in.Virginia.have.arrested.a.man.accused.of.trying.to.rob.a.Lynchburg.pharmacy.twice.in.the.same.day.

Lynchburg.police.arrested.27-year-old.Michael.Edward.Towler.and.charged.him.with.robbery,.brandishing.a.weapon.and.attempted.robbery.

Pharmacist.Michael.Robertson.says.a.man.tried.to.rob.the.pharmacy,.but.Robertson.told.him.they.had.set.off .an.alarm.and.police.were.on.their.way,.so.the.man.fled.

Robertson.says.the.man.returned.later.in.a.lime-green.raincoat,.drew.a.samurai-style,.3-foot-long.sword.and.got.away.with.an.undisclosed.amount.of.narcotics..

➤➤ BASEBALLPanthers beat Nac, tie Memorial

The.Lufkin.Pan-thers.rolled.to.an.easy.11-5.win.over.the.Nacogdoches.Drag-ons.before.battling.Houston.powerhouse.Memorial.to.a.4-4.tie.on.the.second.day.of.the.Pete.Runnels.Shootout.Friday.

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➤➤ TIME CHANGEDon’t forget: It’s time to spring forward

Daylight.saving.time.begins..Remember.to.set.your.clocks.forward.one.hour.Sunday.morning.

By JAY ALABASTERAssociated Press Writer

SENDAI, Japan — Huge earthquakes rockednortheastern.Japan.on.Saturday,.a.day.after.a.giant.temblor set off a powerful tsunami that killed hun-dreds. of. people,. turned. the. coast. into. a. swampy.wasteland and left twonuclear. reactors. dan-gerously close to melt-down.

The United StatesGeological. Survey. said.a strong earthquakestruck. just. before.noon in the sea in vir-tually. the. same. place.where the magnitude8.9. quake. on. Friday.unleashed one of thegreatest. disasters. Ja-pan has witnessed — a23-foot. (7-meter). tsu-nami that washed farinland. over. fields. and.smashed towns.

Saturday’s. magni-tude 6.8 quake wasfollowed. by. a. series.of temblors originat-ing. from. the. same.area, the USGS said. Itwas. not. immediately.known whether thenew.quakes.caused.any.more damage. All werepart. of. the. more. than.125 aftershocks sinceFriday’s.massive.quake,.the strongest to hit Ja-pan. since. officials. be-gan keeping records inthe.late.1800s.

It ranked as the fifth-largest.earthquake.in.the.world.since.1900.and.was.nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devas-tated.Christchurch,.New.Zealand,.last.month,.sci-entists said.

The. official. death. toll. stood. at. 413,. while. 784.people were missing and 1,128 injured. In addition,police.said.between.200.and.300.bodies.were.found.along the coast in Sendai, the biggest city in the

Powerful quakes, tsunami hit JapanScenes of devastation evident as dawn breaks

By JESSICA COOLEYStaff writer

A. Lufkin. mother. was. arrested.Thursday after her two children test-ed.positive.for.PCP.

Julia Goodwin took her unrespon-sive. 13-month-old. son. to. Memorial.Medical Center-Lufkin on Feb. 26,

telling medical staff all she had givenhim. was. Children’s. Tylenol,. accord-ing to an arrest report. A preliminaryblood.test.showed.the.child.tested.pos-itive for PCP and some type of coughsyrup.. Medical. staff . advised. officers.the mother’s story did not check out,the.report.stated...

The boy was later flown to Texas

Children’s Hospital in Houston forfurther.medical.treatment..

CPS was notified, and tested Good-win.and.her.other.son,.who.is.10,.for.drugs, the report stated. They bothtested.positive.for.PCP.and.cocaine..

Her children were taken into CPScustody,.according.to.Lufkin.Police..

A warrant for two counts of endan-

gering a child wasissued.for.Goodwin..

She was beingheld. in. the. Angeli-na County Jail Fri-day. on. a. collective.$15,000 bond.

Jessica Cooley’s e-mail address is jcooley@lufkindailynews.com.

Mom arrested after kids test positive for PCP

GOODWIN

LARISSA GRAHAM/The Lufkin Daily NewsA mobile home was reduced to little more than a skeletal shell following a fire Friday morning in the Twin Oaks mobile home subdivision east of Lufkin.

By LARISSA GRAHAMStaff writer

A mobile home was reduced to little more thana.skeletal.shell.following.a.fire.Friday.morning.in.the Twin Oaks mobile home subdivision east ofLufkin.

Terry Robertson said she had just gotten intothe.shower.when.she.smelled.smoke..She.assumed.her housemate, George Suttle, had lit a candle anddidn’t.think.much.more.of.it,.but.then.the.smoke.got thicker and turned black.

“I. really. thought. it. was. a. candle,”. Robertson.said.

Suttle,.who.is.temporarily.staying.with.Robert-son until his wife is released from a nursing home,said.he.thought.the.smoke.was.from.a.cigarette,.but.as soon as he realized that it was a real fire, he ranto.a.neighbor’s.house.and.called.911.

Robertson, who works at Fuller’s Buffet inLufkin,.said.the.house.was.not.insured.

“I guess I’ll just start over,” she said, watchingas.firefighters.worked.to.ensure.there.were.no.hot.spots among the charred wreckage that was herhome..

The cause of the fire was still under investiga-tion.according.to.2nd.Lt..Don.Crager.with.the.Mof-fett Volunteer Fire Department. The extent of the

damage,.Crager.said,.made.it.difficult.to.tell.what.started the blaze.

“The.house.is.a.complete.and.total.loss,”.Crager.said.

Luckily,.fire.personnel.were.able.to.control.the.blaze so that it did not threaten any of the nearbyhomes.. Moffett,. Fuller. Springs,. Redland,. River-crest and Huntington Volunteer Fire Departmentsall.responded.to.the.call.for.help.

“I really appreciate all the volunteers that camein.today,”.Crager.said..“This.is.a.small.department.that’s just starting out.”

Larissa Graham’s e-mail address is lgraham@lufkindailynews.com.

Early morning fire destroys Twin Oaks mobile home

By MELISSA CRAGERStaff writer

For.the.sixth.year.in.a.row,.a.Lufkin.Middle School team will compete at theDestination. ImagiNation. state. competi-tion.

Eighth-graders. Lauren. Camp,. Caro-line Zimmerman, Hannah Abner, WillKirby,. Brad. Slusher,. Keeli. Sanderson.and Randi Berger won first place in theregional. competition. March. 5,. earning.them a spot at the state level.

Destination. ImagiNation. is. a. world-wide organization that teaches creativ-ity,. teamwork. and. problem. solving. to.students, according to the organization’sofficial.website.

For many on the LMS team, this wasa.first-time.experience..Camp.and.Zim-merman were both introduced to theprogram.by.friends.

“They told me about all the fun things

they have done,” Camp said. “I thought itwould.be.fun.to.try.”

The group began working in Septem-ber,.dedicating.afterschool.hours.to.plan-ning a skit based on a specific challengepresented.each.year.

The solutions to the challenges pre-sented. by. Destination. ImagiNation. can.have theatrical, structural, improvisa-tional,.scientific.or.technical.focuses.

Camp and Zimmerman said their skitwas.based.on.two.archeologists.looking.for treasure they knew nothing about.

“The. clue. is. ‘DI’. so. they. think. it’s.about the Declaration of Independence,”Camp.said..“Then.they.find.out.it’s.the.Destination ImagiNation trophy.”

A. second. part. of. the. competition. in-cludes an “Instant Challenge” in whichthe. students. must. use. quick-thinking.techniques to provide a solution to thejudge’s.problem.

Zimmerman said they received a per-

fect score in the “Instant Challenge,”landing.the.LMS.team.a.first-place.tro-phy.

LMS.coordinator.Brent.Rich.and.Sh-eryl Townsend provide hands-off sup-port.for.the.students.throughout.the.year.so the kids can learn to work together.

“This.program.teaches.the.kids.real-world problem-solving techniques, cre-ative.thinking.and.teamwork,”.Rich.said..“The best analogy I can think of is if acompany.came. forward.with.a.product.that has glitches, but they need to get itout.in.three.months..That’s.Destination.ImagiNation. The kids learn to relate toeach.other.and.accept.each.other’s.point.of view. It’s a beautiful struggle, but it’sa.blast.”

Angelina County DI teams have along-standing.tradition.of.success.in.the.competition.

Melissa Crager’s e-mail address is mcrager@lufkindailynews.com.

LMS Destination ImagiNation team heading to state competition

MELISSA CRAGER/The Lufkin Daily NewsThe Lufkin Middle School Destination ImagiNation eighth-grade team will go to the state competition on April 1. From the left are Lauren Camp, Caroline Zimmerman, Hannah Abner, Will Kirby, Brad Slusher and Keeli Sanderson. Randi Berger is not pictured.

Please see JAPAN, Page 7A

FukushimaTokyo

JAPAN

Epicenter of massiveearthquake

Sea of Japan

Pacific Ocean

RUSSIA

CHINA

© 2011 MCTSource: USGS, AP, ESRI

200 km

200 miles

Fault lines

Source: USGS, AP, ESRI

200 miles

Largest quakes The world’s highest-magnitude earthquakes since 1900:

© 2011 MCT

Location Year Mag.Chile 1960 9.5Prince William Sound, Alaska

1964 9.2

Off coast of Northern Sumatra

2004 9.1

Kamchatka, Russia 1952 9.0

Off coast of Ecuador 1906 8.8

Honshu Coast, Japan 2011 8.9

Chile 2010 8.8Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 8.7Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

2005 8.6

Assam, Tibet 1950 8.6Andreanof Islands, Alaska

1957 8.6

Southern Sumatra, Indonesia

2007 8.5

Banda Sea, Indonesia

1938 8.5

Kamchatka, Russia 1923 8.5Chile-Argentina border

1922 8.5

Source: U.S. Geological Survey