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An explosive Texas fire more than doubles in size as it threatens towns and forces evacuations | CNN
A massive blaze that’s raging out of control is threatening Texas Panhandle towns and forcing residents to evacuate.
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Texas Is Running Out Of Drugs To Kill Criminals
Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months.
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Fracking Update: These Are The Texas Towns Running Out Of Water
A month after the story broke, the people of West Texas are, literally, praying for rain. The region has experienced heavy droughts in recent years. Despite the droughts, however, Texas is famous for denying the science behind things like climate change and evolution, and also for voting over and over again to de-regulate the oil
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Nissan treats new Leaf owners in Texas to one year of free charging
Hey, EV fans in Texas, you might want to wait until October 1st before purchasing or leasing a Nissan Leaf.
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PHOTOS: The 2013 Texas Craft Brewers Festival in Austin, TX
The 2013 Texas Craft Brewers Festival has now come and gone. Here's some photos and interesting takeaways from this years' event.
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The 11 Weirdest Fried Foods at the State Fair of Texas
The State Fair of Texas is one of the biggest, longest-running state fairs of the country. It's steeped in tradition, from its livestock competitions to its architecturally significant Art Deco grounds. But perhaps the most important part of the Texas State Fair? Its role as America's fried food mecca.
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Texas Veterans Make Trip To DC Memorials
Veterans from across the USA have yet to visit the memorial in their honor. This is one small group finally getting their chance.
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Tyler Cowen’s 10 Reasons Texas Is Our Future
It's big. It's hot. It's cheap. And, according to Tyler Cowen, it's where America's 'new cowboys' are blazing a path for the nation to follow
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Hundreds of gun owners rally at the Alamo
Several hundred gun rights activists armed with rifles and shotguns rallied Saturday outside of the Alamo in a demonstration that broke a longstanding tradition of not staging such events at the enduring symbol of Texas independence.
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Watch Out World: This Milkshake Contains Beer & Bacon
According to Eater, the Shake n Bacon Brew is a milkshake that was created in honor of Nascar and is now for sale at the Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas.
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Texas hunting club auctions $1 million permit to shoot critically endangered black rhino
Texas hunting club auctions permit to shoot endangered black rhino in Namibia for up to $1 million in move conservationists call "disturbing".
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First Google, now Microsoft, taps Texas for wind energy
Microsoft intends to source energy from a planned wind farm that will go up at a site about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, the company announced today. The wind farm, some 55 wind turbines in all, is expected to become operational by 2015. The deal also marks Microsoft's first long-term power purchase agreement for wind energy.
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Home where Oswald slept night before Kennedy assassination now museum
The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of
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Underground Carbon Dioxide Injections Triggered Earthquakes in Texas in 2009-2011
A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates 93 small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2009 and 2011 with the underground injection of large volumes of gas, primarily carbon dioxide.
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World's biggest gingerbread house built in Texas
A team in Texas has broken the Guiness World Record for the largest gingerbread house ever built.
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Texas lays claim to the world's largest gingerbread house
Located at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan Texas, the larger-than-life gingerbread house officially holds the new Guinness World Record
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Texas Teen Both Starving and Obese Fights for Life-Saving Surgery
A starving and yet obese teen fights for life-saving gastric bypass surgery. The young Texas girl, Alexis Shapiro, age 12, is only 4 ' 7” tall but weighs 198 pounds. She is increasing that amount ...
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Google Invests $75M In 182MW Texas Wind Farm
Google just loves its green energy investments and today, the company announced a $75 million investment into the Panhandle 2 wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas. This marks the company’s fifteenth renewable energy investment and its second in Texas.
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Texas rhino hunt auction winner fears for his safety
A U.S. man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino says he fears for his safety. Corey Knowlton said that after being revealed as the winner of a controversial Dallas Safari Club auction, he's received death threats — so many that he says local law enforcement and the FBI are now working to keep them safe.
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Texas judge: Remove brain-dead woman from ventilator, other machines
A Texas judge ordered a Fort Worth hospital on Friday to remove a pregnant, brain-dead woman from respirators and ventilators. Judge R.H. Wallace ordered John Peter Smith Hospital to act on his order by 5 p.m. Monday. The hospital could appeal or decide to remove Marlise Munoz from a ventilator and respirator before that deadline.
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