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Hailey Darlene Dunn was a cheerleader, saxophonist, on the softball and basketball teams, a doer and a leader.
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Kids put caring into action to help West
A group of students at Keller-Harvel Elementary School are working hard to help people impacted by the explosion in West.
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West Texans Donating to West, TX at Music Festival Exceed Expectations 5/19/13
CBS 7 News May 19, 2013 Gardendale - The hot weather didn't keep people from heading out to Texas Thunder Music Fest.
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Parks advocate speaks out on funding woes
In efforts to push for better funding to support state parks, a representative from the Keep Texas Parks Open movement spoke to the Marshall Lions Club recently about the initiative.
'Veterans' roof repair business has tangled legal past
There are new developments in our story from last week involving a veterans roof repair business that set up shop in West, Texas after the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.
In poetry and faith, life matters
Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and until recently the editor of Poetry magazine, has written what may become a spiritual classic.
Mystery only deepens around West Texas explosion: Blast compared to Oklahoma City
Authorities have revealed the latest details of the ongoing investigation into what caused a fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month.
Texas votes unanimously to ban animal shelter gas chambers
The last 30 animal shelters in South and West Texas will no longer end the lives of unwanted shelter dogs, cats, kittens, and puppies by gas chambers using carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
West, Texas Disaster Recovery Center Open Sunday
The State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in West, Texas will be open Sunday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The DRC will resume normal hours Monday, May 20.
Each time I visit the West Texas town of Albany, it seems that the locals mistake me for a resident.
Jack Mobley: Obama left men to die
I believe there are bonds formed in this life which should never be compromised or broken.
Department Chair and Professor-Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine invites applicants for the position of Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience.
City of Laredo officials visit West, Texas
Laredo's mayor was among a group of city officials who paid a visit to the city of West, Texas today.
Phil Bowhay: Tales of heroism on sea, in air
Closing in now on Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day, those of us involved one way or another can remember all sorts of bravery and heroism.
State Fire Marshal returns from West, Texas explosion scene
Louisiana State Fire Marshal Butch Browning recently returned from West, Texas. West is the site of a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 and injured 200 more.
VIDEO: Cause of Fatal West Texas Blast Remains Mystery
Investigators have not ruled out an intentional fire being behind explosions at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West that left 15 people dead, the Texas fire marshal said Thursday.State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said investigators were unable to rule out three possible causes, including a spark from a golf cart, an electrical short or an ... (more)
After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action
The PBF Energy refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., uses toxic chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid.
Cause of Texas plant explosion undetermined, arson not ruled out
Investigators announced on Thursday the results of a probe into what caused last month's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.
Billie Sol Estes, the 'king of Texas wheeler-dealers,' dies
A jagged bolt of lightning slashed through the darkened afternoon sky, commanding the undivided attention of the trio huddled beside a grave.
When the nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, 1127 people were killed.