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Sheriff: 7 Still Unaccounted For

Associated Press — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:44 +0000

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — A North Texas county sheriff says seven people remain unaccounted for after a massive tornado claimed six lives.

Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds says emergency responders are searching parts of Granbury that were left devastated

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Inquiry into Texas blast plagued by regulatory gap

Rich Denison — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:00:02 +0000

Federal and state officials investigating last week's deadly blast at a Central Texas fertilizer company are trying to determine whether a fire at the plant could have ignited a supply of ammonium nitrate.

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Terrifying Video Of The Fertilizer Plant Explosion In West Texas [VIDEO]

Brian Scott — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:44 +0000

With a blast that was heard up to 45 miles away, the fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas was scary from a distance. How terrifying would it be a little closer? This man and his child found out first hand

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Deaths, Injuries in West, Texas Plant Explosion

K2 Radio News — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:32:18 +0000

American Red Cross crews from across Texas are being sent to the site of an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco where multiple injuries have been reported.

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Billions in Gas Drilling Royalties Transform Lives

Associated Press — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:52:38 +0000

Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming some lives even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.

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Texas Gov. To Tour Tornado-Stricken Area

Associated Press — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:10:15 +0000

FORNEY, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to survey by air today the damage caused by Tuesday's tornadoes.

The National Weather Service says a twister with winds as high as 165 miles an hour touched down in Forney, east of Dallas

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Texas Tornado Makes Truck Trailers Fly [VIDEO]

Brian Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:29:18 +0000

A television station helicopter grabbed some pretty incredible video of the storms that hit Texas yesterday. The storm which caused a number of injuries, but no reported deaths, rolled through the Dallas area and as evidenced by this video was powerful enough to pick up truck trailers and make them fly

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Baseball-Sized Hail Forecast For Okla., Texas

Associated Press — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:16:01 +0000

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Baseball-sized hail and damaging winds are in the forecast for parts of Oklahoma and Texas the day after two tornadoes damaged homes in Nebraska.

Meteorologists at the National Weather Center's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla

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11 Children Removed From Home

Associated Press — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:44:14 +0000

DAYTON, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities have removed 11 children from a home after finding some restrained by harnesses and discovering other signs of abuse.

Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter says 10 adults also were living in the one-story, 1,700-square-foot home in Dayton, about 30 miles northeast of Houston

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AP Newsbreak: Dallas-Fort Worth Emerge From Drought

Associated Press — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:11:12 +0000

HOUSTON (AP) — For millions of residents in the Dallas area, one of the most severe droughts in Texas history is no longer a concern — for now.

The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map posted online Thursday classifies the Dallas-Fort Worth area as officially out of drought for the first time since July, making it Texas' first major metropolitan area to emerge from the most severe one-year drought in state history

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Texas Electoral Maps At Issue Before Supreme Court

Associated Press — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:40:22 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law says states and localities with a history of discrimination cannot change any voting procedures without first getting approval from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington

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Stranded Ariz. Student, Texas Family Rescued

Associated Press — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:27:00 +0000

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona State University student says she had nothing to eat but two candy bars while her car was stuck in the snow for nine days in a remote area of east-central Arizona

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Runaway Equipment Cart Takes Out Winning Coach [VIDEO]

Brian Scott — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:12:33 +0000

Several people standing at midfield at Cowboys Stadium were hit by a runaway golf cart Saturday during a Texas state championship high school football game.

Players and coaches were talking with the media on the field after the game when the unmanned cart blindsided a group of about eight people standing next to the Dallas star at midfield

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PETA Targets City of Turkey for a Vegan-Friendly Name Change [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:00:53 +0000

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, does some good work, but it’s the organization’s more absurd stunts that often make headlines — and this one is a prime example.

Citing the suffering of turkeys during the Thanksgiving season, PETA sent a letter to the mayor of Turkey, Texas and asked him to change the town’s name to the tofu-based meat alternative “Tofurky” instead.

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Police Investigate Texas Judge After Daughter Posts Video of Beating [GRAPHIC VIDEO]

Kathy Landin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:12:58 +0000

A family law judge in Texas is now under investigation after his daughter posted a video of him beating her with a viciously beating her in 2004 for downloading music and games off the internet. The nearly eight minute video shows the judge whipping his daughter with a belt and getting more irate as she refuses to bend over the bed to get beaten.

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'Hairy Crazy Ants' Invade Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:00:33 +0000

If ants creep you out, this particular breed will truly give you nightmares.

Dubbed “hairy crazy ants,” they move at warp speed and little deters them. In fact, if one is killed, it releases a chemical cue for the others to attack the threat — making standard pesticides nearly useless.

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Texas Slow to Prepare for Future Water Needs

Associated Press — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:18:57 +0000

SANFORD, Texas — On paper, at least, Texas is well-prepared to meet the water needs of its rapidly expanding population — even when Mother Nature lays down a harsh and lengthy drought.

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Another Piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia Found in Texas

Shauna Wright — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:13:16 +0000

Authorities in the East Texas city of Nacogdoches have found an object about four feet in diameter that NASA believes to be a power and water tank from the space shuttle Columbia.

“It’s one of ours,” said NASA spokeswoman Lisa Malone. “We’re looking into whether we’ll send a team out or local authorities can.”

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Glenn Beck Relocates to Texas

Grace Niemitalo — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:30:59 +0000

Texas is a pretty big place -- but is it big enough for Glenn Beck? The Lone Star State is about to find out.

Conservative pundit Beck, whose New York-based television show for Fox News was recently canceled -- or he voluntarily left, depending on whom you ask -- sold his $3.6 million Connecticut home and is renting a $20,000-a-month two-acre spread in Dallas. “I can’t wait,” Beck told listeners during his radio broadcast on Monday.

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Texas Man Charged In Highway Patrol Assault [AUDIO]

Karen Snyder — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:06:37 +0000

A Wyoming judge has ordered a Texas man to stand trial on charges of kicking a Wyoming State Trooper in the face during a traffic stop north of Casper.

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