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Houston Police: Charges sought after accident leaves several without power
Houston Herald - Missouri
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July 28, 2025
The following are excerpts from reports recently generated by the Houston Police Department: Between July 21 and 27, the Houston Police Department responded to 183 calls for service and initiated 26 traffic stops, resulting in 16 citations and...
Dairy Queen, Children's Miracle Network team up on July 31
Amarillo Globe-News - Texas
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The Stop Sign of Texas is known for its Blizzard Treats, and this summer marks the 40th anniversary of the dessert made famous at the Dairy Queen chain. Here's a look into its history, and how people can celebrate. Invented in 1985 by Samuel...
Hundreds show up for public hearing on Texas's plan to redraw Congressional maps
NBC 5 DFW - Texas
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July 29, 2025
State lawmakers were in Arlington Monday to hear from Texans on a proposal to redraw the state's congressional voting maps. Congressional maps are typically redrawn every 10 years after new census data is released. But President Donald Trump asked...
Paul Wall & DJ.Fresh Talk The Tonite Show, Hip-Hop, Drake
Hot 99.1 - New York
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July 29, 2025
Twenty years after the release of his breakout album, The People's Champ, Paul Wall has graduated to ambassador of the great city of Houston. For the past two decades, the former Swishahouse rapper has pushed H-Town's diamond-grill wearing,...
"Thats when you get that bad marriage": Steve Sarkisian reveals hardest part of NIL recruiting via transfer portal at Texas
Sportskeeda
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July 29, 2025
Coach Steve Sarkisian is part of one of the biggest brands in college football, backed by ultra-rich NIL boosters and collectives, where a football roster expenditure is estimated to be around $35 million to $40 million per year. He is aware of...
Can lifestyle changes protect the brain from Alzheimer’s? A new study offers hope for prevention.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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She’s also hoping these changes could help prevent her from rapid cognitive decline or developing Alzheimer’s, a progressive brain disorder that gradually impairs thinking, behavior, and memory. The study she participated in found that targeted...
Houston Grand Opera's new album captures world-premiere performance
Culturemap
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July 28, 2025
Opera lovers in Houston and beyond should mark their calendars for August 29. That’s the day Houston Grand Opera’s full recording of the company-commissioned world-premiere opera Intelligence will be released. The recording is the first release...
Loving County, Texas: Weird Facts About the Smallest County in the United States
Talk Radio 960AM - Louisiana
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July 29, 2025
Do you ever find yourself falling down internet rabbit holes? While researching something else (I'll get to that), I discovered the anomaly that is Loving County, Texas. Despite having lived in Texas nearly my whole life, I had never heard of...
Wound Care Briefly: WOCN Lists Resources for Communities Impacted by Texas Floods; Researchers Use Yogurt in Tissue Repair Study Featuring the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society and Columbia Engineering.
HME Business News
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July 29, 2025
WOCN Announces Resources for Texas Flood Victims The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) has released resources to support communities impacted by the flooding in Texas’s Hill Country earlier this month. The list, released by WOCN...
Texas Republican Admits Affair, Denies Other Disturbing Allegations
Rolling Stone
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July 28, 2025
In 2021, Republican Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione introduced the Human Life Protection Act, a trigger ban that turned Texas into one of the strictest anti-abortion states in the nation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade the...
‘We just wanted to do our small part’: how Texas's art community responded to deadly flash floods
The Art Newspaper
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July 28, 2025
Flash flooding in Texas on the weekend of 4 July has killed at least 137 people, according to the most recent figures released. The local art community has stepped up to support those most affected. The deadly flooding struck in the state’s Hill...
17 Places In The U.S. That Will Pay You As Much As $12,000 To Move There (And That’s Not All)
Forbes
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Texarkana—one of dozens of towns across the U.S. that will pay you to move—is proud of its roots. The downtown mural by artist Darlene Taylor is a local favorite and a symbol of the community spirit that’s attracting new residents. Nichole Holze...
Biggest sources of immigrants to Texas
Star Local Media - Texas
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Ryan Walters: What to know about Oklahoma's top educator
The Oklahoman
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An investigation is underway after two Oklahoma State Board of Education members said they saw images of naked women on a TV screen in the office of Oklahoma's top education official, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters Board members Ryan...
Pharr resident announces bid for Texas State Board of Education
Brownsville Herald - Texas
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July 29, 2025
Only have a minute? Listen instead Thomas Ray Garcia Thomas Ray Garcia has announced his candidacy for the District 2 seat of the Texas State Board of Education. The announcement marks Garcia’s second attempt for the seat following an unsuccessful...
With immigration concerns, Flock cameras’ future in Oak Park debated
Oak Park Wednesday Journal - Illinois
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July 29, 2025
Several Oak Park trustees weighed in on the village’s participation in a nationwide license plate reader network, saying they want the village’s cameras turned off. Trustees Brian Straw and Jenna Leving-Jacobson both told Oak Park Chief Shatonya...
Trump moves to end 'climate change religion' in win for Texas oil
Austin American-Statesman - Texas
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The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to human health, which is essential to federal efforts to crack down on industries like Texas's oil and gas sector. Speaking on a...
Bianca Turati returns to alma mater as women’s tennis associate head coach
The Daily Texan
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July 29, 2025
After three seasons guiding the Missouri Tigers women’s tennis program, Bianca Turati has returned to the Forty Acres, joining Howard Joffe’s staff as an associate head coach for the upcoming season. “Howard has been a coach who always understood...
Texas Southern University’s Bold March to 100: A Centennial Vision Rooted in Legacy and Lifted by Leadership
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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July 28, 2025
By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story July 28, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — Texas Southern University (TSU), one of the nation’s most storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities, just ignited a new era of vision and...
Op-Ed: To Texas, From a Fellow Survivor: We See You. We’re With You
Courier Texas
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July 29, 2025
It’s been less than a year since Hurricane Helene tore through my hometown of Marshall, North Carolina, and took one-third of our land down the river and left the remaining soil contaminated with toxic chemicals. Entire homes and businesses were...