The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states.
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Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’
“No one owes you or your family anything,” the mayor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
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A pack of feral hogs attacked and killed a woman on her way to work in Texas
Christine Rollins was killed by a pack of hogs in a town 50 miles east of Houston where she worked as a caretaker for an elderly couple, according to the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office.
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Last rodeo for Fort Worth’s famed Will Rogers Coliseum
For Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, this is the last rodeo
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College Football: Notre Dame into top 5, Texas into top 10
Notre Dame moved into the top five, Texas and UCF reached the top 10 and the Southeastern Conference placed a season-high eight teams in the latest Associated Press college football poll. After three teams in the top eight and eight ranked teams overall lost on Saturday, there was significant movement throughout the AP Top 25 […]
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Texas, Japan cancer researchers win Nobel Prize in medicine
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Researchers from the United States and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that help the body marshal its cellular troops to attack invading cancers. One cancer doctor said “an untold number of lives … have been saved by the science that they pioneered.” James Allison of the […]
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Chesterville man graduates from Air Force basic training
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — U.S. Air Force Airman Dominick M. Frank graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete […]
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Weldon R. Donsbach
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. — Weldon R. Donsbach, 94, peacefully passed away Jan. 24, in hospice care at Tolstoy Foundation in Valley Cottage, N.Y., after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 4, 1923, to Adolph and Cora Donsbach. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy from December 1942 […]
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Electricity Maine founders’ ‘business divorce’ gets ugly
After more than 30 years in business together founding Auburn companies including Electricity Maine and Provider Financial, buying the Bates of Maine textile mill and funding a section of the Auburn Public Library, Emile Clavet and Kevin Dean have apparently decided the gloves are off. The high-stakes fight between the two former Auburn residents includes […]
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Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing up to 10
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control. Harris County Sheriff Ed […]