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1 If you are flying Delta¹ in the new year, expect to pay more for check bags. It will now cost you 23 dollars for the first bag and 32 for the second. That's an increas of eight dollars for the first bag and seven for the second.

2 Relief from the cold might be in sight for the east coast which has been beseiged by below average temperatures for weeks. Forecasters expecte gradual warming this week with temperatures near or above normal by Friday.

3 A Texas school board has agreed to ajust its grooming² policy for a four-year-old boy whose long hair got him suspended. The Mesquite school district will allow the boy the keep his long hair if it's braided and no longer than his ears.
The boy's parents say the new policy isn't good enough.

4 Slugger Mark McGwire has finally ended a decade of denials and evasion³ admitting that he used steroids for nearly a decade. McGwire says he wishes he never did steroids, calling it foolish and a mistake. McGwire is now the heading coach for the St Louis Cardinals⁴.