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  • A Dallas man who was in a hospital being treated for a gunshot wound has been arrested after an auto shop owner was killed in a shootout
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  • Police are investigating the death of a Dallas man found shot to death on the front porch of his home
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  • A federal magistrate has refused to appoint appellate attorneys for an Amarillo mother and daughter convicted in a 1995 murder-for-hire scheme
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  • Billie Sol Estes may have been infamous as a swindler who spent time in prison for Texas-sized schemes, but his family and friends say he was a loving, generous man who once gave his Cadillac to a stranger who needed a ride
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  • Texas Tech University students will not pay more for tuition and fees in 2013-14
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  • Baylor University regents have approved a plan to build a $13.6 million track stadium at the Waco campus
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  • Sheriff deputies say two people found in a burned suburban Austin home were murdered
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  • A 300-pound Fort Worth man died shortly after police fired a Taser stun gun at him during a drug raid
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  • El Paso police used a bomb squad to investigate the home of a high school teacher arrested on charges he had an improper relationship with a student
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  • Authorities say two tornadoes have struck near a small community in rural North Texas, destroying a house but causing no injuries.
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  • Residents in the North Texas town of Granbury whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a deadly tornado are set to return to get what belongings may be left and start cleaning up.
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  • Authorities combed through debris in Granbury, while residents awaited the chance to see what was left of their homes
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  • The deal would restore $3.93 billion to public schools and take $2 billion from the state's rainy day fund for water projects
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  • A Bastrop pastor has been found guilty of animal cruelty in the death of a cat he trapped in his neighborhood last year
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  • Authorities say two tornadoes have struck near a small community in rural North Texas, destroying a house but causing no injuries
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  • Police say an 83-year-old man has been taken into custody after his son and grandson were found shot to death in the North Texas home all three shared
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  • Dallas police say a 1-year-old child left in a locked vehicle in an elementary school parking lot has died
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  • It's Christmas in May in the Texas Legislature
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  • Texas on Friday became the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history
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  • Utility officials say about 20,000 homes and businesses have lost electricity after tornadoes swept through North Texas and left at least six people dead.
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  • Dallas may be more than 250 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, the closest body of salt water, but that's not stopping a foundation and city officials from announcing plans for an $80 million maritime museum
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  • Military officials say two Fort Bliss soldiers and one from Fort Stewart in Georgia were killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device
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  • Prosecutors in Central Texas say they will retry a man whose quarter-century old murder conviction was overturned due to questions about the fire science used at his trial
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  • Prosecutors continue to press a North Texas jury to send a man to death row for drowning two of his sons in a creek
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  • A merchant in a Texas border city has pleaded guilty to selling fake designer goods in an investigation that netted nearly 6,000 bogus items
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  • More images are coming out of north Texas, where several communties were ravaged by tornadoes
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  • The former chief of staff to Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead has been fired after he was accused of driving while intoxicated
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  • Tornadoes struck several communities in N. Texas overnight, leaving at least 6 dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless
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  • The former mayor of a tiny West Texas town has pleaded guilty to stealing about $100,000 from the town treasury
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  • Investigators have not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed at least 14 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, two officials familiar with the findings said Thursday
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  • Police say they arrested eight people after a raid at a strip club in north Houston
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  • Retail gasoline prices in Texas have risen 3 cents this week to reach an average $3.41 per gallon
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