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In an AP interview, meteorologist Sarah Barnes, with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth-Dallas, says a persistent weather pattern has been keeping temperatures well over 100 degrees for much of the summer. ((note length))

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Sweltering temperatures bring misery to large portion of central US, setting heat records
By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press
Sun,08/20/23-11:27AM , 415 Reads
HOUSTON (AP) — Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central U.S., causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes.
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Suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sits as he makes an appearance in Harris County Courthouse on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023 in Houston. Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud trial to wait until end of impeachment trial
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Thu,08/03/23-12:18AM , 106 Reads
HOUSTON (AP) — Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday.
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This photo provided by the Willacy County Livestock Show and Fair shows a rodeo goat named Willy, who was captured on Monday, July 31, 2023, after having gone missing on July 15, in a rural South Texas county. Residents in Willacy County had searched for the goat on horses, ATVs and by drone.Willy was found by 16-year-old Ricardo Rojas III and family friend Sammy Ambriz after they spotted her in a wooded area near Rojas' home. (Willacy County Livestock Show and Fair via AP)

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Willy the Texas rodeo goat, on the lam for weeks, has been found safe
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Wed,08/02/23-3:59PM , 136 Reads
HOUSTON (AP) — Willy the rodeo goat, who has lassoed the hearts of residents in a rural South Texas county ever since she escaped from an arena enclosure July 15, has been found.
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At a news conference, Lt. Christopher Zamora with the Houston Police Department's Missing Persons Unit, says Rudy Farias gave fake names to the police. COURTESY: KTRK TV ((mandatory on-air credit))

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A Texas man reported missing as a teen in 2015 was only missing for 1 day, police say
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Thu,07/06/23-11:43AM , 89 Reads
HOUSTON (AP) — The case of a Texas man who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 and found alive last week at a church took an unexpected turn Thursday when police revealed it all was a hoax — the man was only gone for a day, but
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