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  • Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

    Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

  • Massive tornadoes that hit Oklahoma Texas blamed on stubborn jet stream

    View results The same weather phenomenon that brought unusually cold temperatures to the East Coast this spring is being blamed for the massive and devastating tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma this week: A jet stream that refused to leave.Weather forecasters tracked this year’s jet stream - the pattern of high-altitude winds - as moving farther south, and staying farther south, for a ...

  • Tim Duncan Tony Parker and San Antonio Spurs survive Game Two overtime to beat Memphis Grizzlies

    Spurs lead series 2-0 The San Antonio Spurs clung on to beat the Memphis Grizzlies in Game Two overtime to take a 2-0 Western Conference finals series lead.For three quarters the Grizzlies looked like they were going to be on the end of a second successive blowout, down by 15 points at half-time and going into the final stanza still down by 12. Tony Parker had a playoff career high 18 assists to ...

  • Even small business is bigger in Texas

    As more entrepreneurs flock to the state, experts are pointing to a combination of growth-friendly conditions that have small businesses growing in, and messing with, ...

  • Lufkin restaurant worker hit by lightning dies

    LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- An East Texas restaurant worker standing outside the eatery and holding an umbrella during a storm has died after being hit by ...

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Just Visiting (Les Visiteurs en America)

Just Visiting (Les Visiteurs en America)

Just Visiting is an Americanized remake of Les Visiteurs (The Visitors), a 1993 French comedy that is still the highest grossing comedy in its native country. The Visitors didn't do particularly well here in the United States, as it played with subtitles ... ...

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  • Largest NC school district names 3 finalists

    CARY, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's largest school district is picking a superintendent among three finalists from Texas, Virginia Beach, and the state's second-largest school ...

  • Suspect in Dallas-area double slayings found in NM

    GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) -- A man suspected of killing his girlfriend and her teenage daughter at their Dallas-area home has been captured in New ...

  • Boy Scouts to open two-day meeting in Texas to decide whether to allow openly gay Scouts

    GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform. Officials of the Irving, Texas-based organization are scheduled to open the first of the ballots cast on whether to allow openly gay Scouts. Scouting officials propose allowing openly gay Scouts ...

  • Charge investigation of Texas fertilizer blast hampered by in-fighting

    The federal safety agency investigating the West Fertilizer Company explosion in Texas has accused other investigators of hampering his agency's work. Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a letter that the Texas state fire marshal and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blocked access to key witnesses for three weeks after the April ...

  • Second phase of Mary Rhodes Pipeline going smoothly official says

    Indeed, our Regional Water Planning Group has used money from the state to pay a consultant to study sources of groundwater and other alternative means of increasing and insuring our area's water supply for many years. To hire another consultant at the City's expense would only duplicate the efforts. In fact, the City Council long has had a delegate to Region N: Mark Scott. Did he ...

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