Tag Archives: Texas

• News

  Dog, owner reunited after being ripped from home by tornado

  Granbury resident Jerry Shuttlesworth held onto his companion Junior, a six-year-old pitbull.
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  North Texas picks up the pieces after tornadoes kill 6

  Rescue crews have scoured subdivision “over and over and over again,” sheriff says
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  Texas tornadoes kill 6, injure dozens

  The fatalities occurred when the storm struck a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood.
• News

  Official: Multiple fatalities in severe Texas storm

  Several people were killed and 10 were injured Wednesday night when a possible tornado hit Granbury, Texas, city officials said.
• News

  Criminal probe started into Texas fertilizer plant blast

  Authorities on Friday said they are launching a criminal investigation into last month’s blast in the town of West, but have not said if the arrest of Bryce Reed is connected.
• News

  Man kills self at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport, authorities say

  The shooting occurred near the ticketing counter in the pre-screening area.
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  Obama tells families of Texas blast victims that nation will help them recover

  A row of 12 coffins, each draped with a flag, symbolizes the human cost of an explosion that destroyed much of a small Texas town.
• News / Politics

  Five presidents on hand for Bush Center dedication

  Today the five living American presidents gathered together at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas.
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  Powerful Texas blast left nearly 100-foot-wide crater

  Walls warped or blown off entirely, even ones made of brick. Roofs sunken in, if they are still visible at all. Garage doors lying in yards.
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  West, Texas, residents looking out for each other after blast

  Investigators still don’t know how the West, Texas, fertilizer plant exploded, but they do know where the blast went off.
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  Town ravaged by plant explosion works to rebuild with community, spirituality

  One by one, the beleaguered townspeople of West, Texas, filed into local churches Sunday to begin the healing process, following last week’s deadly blast at the nearby West Fertilizer Co. plant.
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  14 bodies recovered, 60 unaccounted for after Texas blast

  Except for one house that burned down after Wednesday’s fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, investigators have finished their search and rescue efforts.