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Officials fear another whooping crane die-off DALLAS (AP) — The world’s last remaining natural flock of endangered whooping cranes, which suffered a record number of deaths last year, will probably see another die-off because of scarce food supplies at its Texas nesting grounds this winter, wildlife managers said.
January 27, 2010
All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers for the all-star “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting.

“The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with ’Hope for Haiti Now,’ and the donations continue to come in,” Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event.
January 23, 2010
Texas seminary acquires Dead Sea Scroll fragments FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is to unveil three newly acquired biblical Dead Sea Scroll fragments.
January 20, 2010
Merchant understands prosthetics business LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — Born with a rare birth defect, Brooks Raney had his leg amputated as a newborn, but that didn’t slow him down.
January 19, 2010
East Texas online radio show is ’World Wild West’ SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas (AP) — It’s 7 p.m. when Ralph Hampton dons a headset and starts the show.

“We’re coming to you live from sparkling San Augustine, Texas, from the second floor of the Hightop Feed and Seed,” the 53-year-old says into a small microphone.
January 18, 2010
Tens of thousands join in San Antonio MLK march SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tens of thousands of San Antonio residents, some holding portraits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and banners proclaiming “We believe,” marched in honor of the slain civil rights leader Monday.
January 18, 2010
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January 13, 2010
Assignment leads FW teacher to daughter’s diabetes FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Fort Worth teacher’s biology assignment led her to a potential lifesaving discovery that her daughter has diabetes.
January 11, 2010
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January 7, 2010
Musicians sing praises of East Texas guitar shop HAWKINS, Texas (AP) — Carrie Fussell got misty-eyed when she picked up the Taylor acoustic guitar and strummed it for the first time.

Fussell, who sings and plays guitar in a band called Calliope Musicals, an indie folk act, had come all the way from Austin to the small town of Hawkins, north of Tyler, just to buy a guitar.

“It is so pretty,” Fussell said. “When I was standing there playing it, I almost cried.”

Sitting in a room at Action Sound in the downtown retail district of this community of about 1,100 people, Fussell, 21, a Henderson native studying linguistics at The University of Texas, launched into a song as if performing for a nightclub full of adoring fans.

Outside the room, Action Sound owner Kelly Barber put his wiry frame to good use as he scaled a wall of shelves to pull down a used drum set a customer had come all the way from Kilgore to purchase.
January 5, 2010
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