Author: Jamie Stengle
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Why are clocks set forward in the spring? Thank wars, confusion and a hunger for sunlight
Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer
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Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared to have role in igniting largest wildfire in Texas history
The utility provider Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared to have played a role in igniting a massive wildfire in the Texas Panhandle that grew to the largest blaze in state history
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Fire chief in Texas city hit hard by wildfires dies while fighting a house fire
Authorities say a Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died while fighting a house fire
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WWII Monuments Men weren’t all men. The female members finally move into the spotlight
After World War II, the U.S. Army’s team of art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis
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Texas officer convicted in killing of Black woman
DALLAS • A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Jurors also considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him…
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Suspected hypothermia deaths in homes mount in Texas
DALLAS — With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice and frigid temperatures nationwide,…
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At least 5 killed in massive crash on icy Texas interstate
DALLAS • At least nine people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S. At the scene of the crash on Interstate 35 near Fort Worth,…
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Art collected by Jewish lawyer before WWII goes to auction
DALLAS • About 200 works of art from a Jewish lawyer’s collection that were spirited out of Nazi Germany to the U.S. are going up for auction. The works collected by Ismar Littmann being offered Tuesday at Swann Auction Galleries In New York are mostly drawings, etchings and lithographs. They were once part of a…
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Harvey horror: Shivering girl, 3, clinging to drowned mom
DALLAS — A shivering 3-year-old girl found clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas was likely saved by her mom’s effort to carry her child to safety from Harvey’s floods, police said Wednesday. Beaumont police identified the mother as 41-year-old Colette Sulcer and said her daughter was…
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Norma McCorvey, who was at center of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69
DALLAS — Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. She was 69. McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working…