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Four Casualties in Salado I-35 Bridge Collision
UPDATE 3/27: All lanes of I-35 have been reopened as of Friday morning.
At roughly 11:15 a.m. this morning, an oversized tractor trailer struck a beam of the under-construction FM 2484 overpass of I-35 in Salado, Texas. The impact knocked two unsecured beams onto the highway, crushing a pickup truck and the cabin of another tractor trailer headed south.
Sir Terry Pratchett, Titan of Fantasy, Meets Death at 66
Sir Terry Pratchett, British fantasy author and satirist best known for his forty-volume series of Discworld novels, which included The Colour of Magic, Hogfather, and Snuff, passed away today after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Texas Teacher Wins $25,000 Milken Educator Award
A fifth-grade English Language Arts and Reading teacher at Clifton Elementary School in Clifton, Texas was surprised in front of an audience of her students and peers on Tuesday morning with the Milken Educator Award, the 'Oscar of Teaching,' becoming the only Texas educator to earn this honor in the 2014-15 season.
No Blizzard in Texas? See What You’re Missing
Today in most parts of the Lone Star State it'll be sunny and a cool 70 degrees. Yeah, it might have dropped into the forties overnight, but that's hardly anything to brag about. What's the use in being the toughest folk in America when the weather is so milquetoast? Look at what you could be experiencing today if you lived in Maine, instead.
Here’s Our #ACLFest Weekend Two Wrap-up Gallery
This year's Austin City Limits Festival was jam-packed with the kind of music and madness you can only find deep in the heart of Texas. Check out our exclusive gallery of some of the sights and performances you might have missed.
BREAKING: Thomas Eric Duncan, America’s First Ebola Victim, Dies in Hospital
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first American diagnosed with Ebola, succumbed to his illness this morning, says Wendell Watson, an official at Dallas's Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Is #StopRush a Liberal Media Conspiracy? Rush Says So
Rush Limbaugh, whose show is broadcast daily on KTEM NewsRadio 14, alleged in an article posted to his website yesterday that the #StopRush media campaign is not a grassroots effort, as its organizers claim, but in fact an orchestrated effort by "hardcore political activists." But do the numbers add up?
Rick Perry Indicted on Two Charges of Abuse of Power
UPDATE (8/16): Gov. Perry addressed Friday's indictments in a short press conference, today. "We don’t settle political differences with indictments in this country," he said. "It is outrageous that some would use partisan political theatrics to rip away at the very fabric of our state’s constitution. This indictment amounts to nothing more than abuse of power and I cannot and I wi