Morning news highlights with Danny Mogle provided by the Tyler Morning Telegraph and Tylerpaper.com. Check back every morning for the latest updates on what matters to you.
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Good morning, East Texas! I'm Danny Mogle, and this is the TylerPaper.com Friday morning news update.***
Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, part of a harsh response to a U.S. law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although some top Russian officials
including the foreign minister openly opposed the bill and Putin himself had been noncommittal about it last week, he signed it less than twenty-four hours after receiving it from Parliament, where both houses passed it overwhelmingly.
Here's more on this breaking story from the Associated Press:***
Lindie Bryant got a big surprise this month. Her longtime boyfriend, Steven Berry, proposed to her on Dec. 13 shortly after his bilateral lung transplant. Berry, a 21-year-old Rusk resident, said he planned to propose on New Year's,
maybe after a fireworks show. But all of that changed when he was told he had a transplant offer. Berry was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 3 years old and had been on a transplant list since September. Read the complete story here on
TylerPaper.com or in today's print edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph.***
The total contributions for the Shine Your Light community campaign through Tuesday increased by more than five thousand dollars, bringing the total to nearly one hundred fifty seven thousand of the two hundred fifty thousand dollar
goal. Shine Your Light is an annual end-of-year giving campaign where East Texas residents can donate to selected nonprofits through the East Texas Communities Foundation. The campaign ends Monday, so please consider making a donation.
Click the Shine Your Light button on the TylerPaper.com home page for more information.
This evening's local weather forecast from the Tyler Morning Telegraph free mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android is for a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms and a high around 47. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 26.***
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