For a team that relies heavily on the ground game, Hominy is surprisingly searching for running backs for the fall.

Try this Southern dish as an unusual side for a Mexican meal.

HOMINY, Okla. - Dick Conner Correctional Center Warden Terry Martin knows how easy it can be for an offender to break out of his cell.

Five Republican House members switched their votes and another GOP member who had been absent for the first vote voted for an Oklahoma budget bill during the second vote. The budget bill, which won Senate approval on Tuesday, now heads to the governor.

The Republican leadership of Oklahoma's rambunctious House of Representatives rounded up enough votes to pass a budget bill on Thursday, getting 52 ayes - one more than the minimum required - on the second try after coming up four votes shy the first time around.

The trails around Carrier Park are ideal for a family outing of bike riding, walking or running. / Erin Brethauer/ ebrethau@citizen-times.com Those of you who don’t live on the west side of Asheville might be missing out on the coolest park in town.

HEALING PRAYER SERVICE: 3 p.m. Sunday, First Baptist Church, 125 Tappan St., Spruce Pine. Conducted by Living Faith Chapter of International Order of St. Luke the Physician. Held every fourth Sunday. 765-9411.

The Denver buffet scene is a virtual global tour that includes elegant daily buffets for business lunch meetings, Sunday brunches, Peruvian lunches and steam tables filled with Ethiopian stews, Indian curries and Mexican chile dishes.

The Pacific Central Mexican state of Michoacan has a distinguished, primarily indigenous, culinary history. Although its most famous traditional dish may be pozole, for me its best gustatory creations are its masa-based antojitos/snacks like corundas, stuffed gorditas, uchepos, and tacos al vapor.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House on Thursday narrowly approved a $6.8 billion general appropriations bill to fund state government, just hours after the same bill failed, avoiding the need to re...