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comment Tuesday. Seven of Fischer's children didn't immediately respond to phone messages, a call to one number rang unanswered and three siblings didn't have listed numbers. Andrew Fischer also did not respond to a message seeking comment.
• Mary Ann Darling Fischer was born on June 8, 1933, at her grandparent's farm near Hecla, S.D. She later took a job at a vacuum and oil company and married Andrew Fischer in 1955, according to her obituary.
• Before the Fischer quintuplets, only two sets of quints born in the Western Hemisphere had survived infancy. They were the Dionnes of Canada in 1934 and the Dilgenti children in Argentina in 1943.
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Texas judge halts TransCanada oil pipeline work
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press
• HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, the latest legal battle to plague a project that has encountered numerous obstacles nationwide.
• Texas landowner Michael Bishop, who is defending himself in his legal battle against the oil giant, filed his lawsuit in the Nacogdoches County courthouse, arguing that TransCanada lied to Texans when it said it would be using the Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil.
• Tar sands oil -- or diluted bitumen -- does not meet the definition as outlined in Texas and federal statutory codes which define crude oil as "liquid hydrocarbons extracted from the earth at atmospheric temperatures," Bishop said. When tar sands are extracted in Alberta, Canada, the material is almost a solid and "has to be heated and diluted in order to even be transmitted," he told The Associated Press exclusively.
• "They lied to the American people," Bishop said.
• Texas County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz signed a temporary restraining order and injunction Friday, saying there was sufficient cause to halt work until a hearing Dec. 19. The two-week injunction went into effect Tuesday after Bishop posted bond.
• TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard said later in a statement that the judge had agreed to push the hearing up to Thursday, Dec. 13.
• David Dodson, a spokesman for TransCanada, has said courts have already ruled that tar sands are a form of crude oil. The company said in a statement emailed Tuesday that work on Bishop's property is underway and that the injunction (Continued on page 27)
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