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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.
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.
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.
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
LeBron James Signs Back Up with the Cleveland Cavaliers
In an event sure to send ripples through the basketball world, LeBron James has announced that he is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who drafted him in 2003, after four years playing for the Miami Heat.