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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets

After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday drawing, an estimated $360 million jackpot considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in ...
Powerball fever grips players

Raising her Powerball ticket in the air, Hortcina Martinez shouts in excitement in hopes of winning the jackpot from a ticket purchased at Oscar's Food Mart #1 on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra ...
My Pet Learning Discipline

Service Dogs Inc. shows you have to use treats to encourage discipline with your dog. You want to use treats to get and treat your dog's attention. Be sure you have good eye contact. Allow your dog to smell your hand, then when get the desired behavior, offer your dog a treat. This use of treats also can extend to other ...
Engineering Olympics teach kids its okay to fail

Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Cunningham Middle School students Sierra Mendoza, 13 (left), and Jason Jasso, 12, work with their materials as they build a wind turbine Friday during the school’s Engineering Olympics. Students had a set budget and bought supplies with available funds. In addition to building the turbines they also will present them to classmates. Cunningham Middle ...
Weekend Gardener Rainwater harvesting

AUSTIN (KXAN) - This week John meets with Dani Slabaugh of Yard To Table Gardens to talk about rain water collection. Slabaugh designed and built this Thai Rain Jar cistern for Paige Hill of Urban Patchwork Neighborhood Farms using the traditional construction method. She used a container of mulch wrapped in chicken wire which she then covered with a thin layer of cement. The mulch is then ...

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Made in 1985 for a budget of only $100,000, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" sat on a shelf until 1989 when it was finally shown at a series of film festivals, then made its rounds on the midnight theater circuit. Many critics lavished it for being brutally honest about its subject matter, which in some ways, it is. Unfortunately, like so many small budget movies, the lack of money shows throu ... ...

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Pet of the Week Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
Pet of the Week Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
University of Texas graduates 4200

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The University of Texas will graduate 4,200 students today. We spoke to two of them. The University of Texas at Austin is expecting about 4,200 graduating students at the main commencement ceremony Saturday night with a total crowd of about 25,000. Rebekah Scheuerle is a UT senior graduating from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Scheuerle, a chemical engineering major, set her ...
Texas lawmakers protecting Merry Christmas from the Grinch

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It's Christmas in May in the Texas Legislature.The Texas Senate on Friday approved a bipartisan bill that aims to remove legal risks of saying "Merry Christmas" in Texas public schools. Traditional holiday symbols, such as a menorah or nativity scene, would also win a nod of state support so long as more than one religion and a secular symbol are also ...
How the San Antonio Spurs match up against Memphis Grizzlies in NBA playoffs | Hunter Felt

The San Antonio Spurs will face the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference Finals. We look at the matchups to decide which team has the ...

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Texas tornado kills many and renders hundreds homeless

GRANBURY, Texas - Many people were reported dead or missing, and scores injured after tornadoes ripped through an area of North Central Texas forcing hundreds out of their flattened homes by high velocity winds of up to 325 km per hour.

The worst hit is the Rancho Brazos subdivision that houses 110 homes near Granbury, southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area Wednesday night.

Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds, a wide swath of mobile homes and single-family homes, were leveled.

"Most of the neighborhood is heavily damaged to destroyed," he said. "Very little is untouched."

The National Weather Service said the preliminary storm estimate for the tornado in Granbury carried wind speeds of up to 325 kmph.

It said 10 tornadoes raked North Texas in a violent system, including the one in Granbury. Other tornadoes damaged nearby Cleburne and Millsap.

Deeds said some of those killed "were found in houses, some were found around houses".

"There was a report that two of these people that they found were not even near their homes. So we're going to have to search the area out there."

He said that 14 people were still unaccounted for as it was not clear if they are missing or were away from the area when the tornado hit." ...