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Conair has expanded a recall of Cuisinart grill brushes due to an ingestion hazard. They say that more than 3.6 million brushes have since been recalled. This includes more than 20 different types of these brushes. The company says there has been at least 54 reports and reviews w...
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Authorities across the country are sounding the alarm over a spike in air bag thefts. The warning is for Honda owners everywhere. According to officials, these thieves are targeting the driver's side air bags of Honda Accords, Civics, HR-Vs and CR-Vs. The thieves are often steali...
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The jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy has finished deliberating for the day without reaching a verdict and will resume deliberations Friday at 9 a.m. ET. EDITOR'S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and cr...
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Waco, Tx (FOX44) - In her weekly letter to Baylor students and staff, Baylor President Dr Linda Livingstone informed her readers that a tuberculosis case had been reported in the Baylor community. Little other information was noted other than Baylor students, faculty, staff and p...
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KILLEEN, Texas (FOX 44) - The U.S. Navy has honored an Early College High School (ECHS) teacher for his role in influencing students to join the armed services. The Killeen Independent School District says Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) teacher Eric Fries served ...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed more than 1,000 new cases of cyclosporiasis in the United States this summer, bringing the total number of confirmed illnesses to more than 17,000. The cases include 922 hospitalizations and two deaths. Great Lakes states, ...
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Maine's Republican nominee for governor recently told a crowd of supporters that he would ask a top Department of Homeland Security official to send U.S. Marshals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places in the state for this fall's midterm elections, acco...
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The week will bring a partial lunar eclipse, when part of the moons sunlight is blocked by Earth. According to NASA, people in eastern North America and all of South America will have the best chance of seeing the eclipse. Much of those continents will be able to see the eclipse ...
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The National Hurricane Center said Thursday that a cluster of thunderstorms in the Atlantic Ocean had organized into Tropical Storm Dolly. Previously, three named tropical systems had formed in the Atlantic basin: Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal. With D next in the alphabet, the nex...
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Brazos County, Tx ( FOX44) - Taking care not to call it water restrictions, officials in Bryan and College Station are asking residents to take steps to reduce water use as hot weather continues. They noted that after a relatively mild start to the summer, water use across the Br...
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The trailblazing country music icon, songwriter and actress, who died Tuesday at age 80, was so much more to millions around the world.
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The Texas Department of Transportation is warning drivers about a major closure this weekend due to its My35 Waco South Construction Project. The westbound South Valley Mills Drive bridge over Interstate 35's mainlanes is set to be removed, forcing overnight closures in the area ...
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Good going by ABC for suing the Federal Communications Commission and Chair Brendan Carr over his effort to require eight local ABC-owned broadcast stations (including New York, L.A. and Chicago) to submit to license renewals years ahead of schedule, announced…...
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For more than a century and a half, a teenage soldier lay buried and forgotten on a Virginia battlefield.
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Parents often worry that obsessive video game playing will keep their sons from finding productive careers. The Federal Aviation Administration has a different perspective....
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail Thursday, after a judge refused to order his return to Minnesota. Christian Castro was released at the brea...
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It didn’t take long for Devon Jordan to become a leader. He's experienced: “I’m an older brother to 10 siblings, so I’ve been having this leader role my whole life."...
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PREDICTIONS: The Trib staff picks every local game for Week 1. #txhsfb #TribFridayNight #TribThursdayNight
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President Donald Trump will attend a Republican fundraiser for Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton, with donors paying thousands for a seat at the table. Trump is heading to Texas to throw his support and money behind his hand-picked Republican Senate candidate, Attorney General Ke...
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As the college school year begins, there are some elements dorm residents can add to personalize and maximize their smaller living space.
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Taylor Farms, the produce supplier at the center of the massive U.S. cyclosporiasis outbreak, changed the way America eats after launching branded, prepackaged and washed chopped salads more than a decade ago....
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Generac is best known for making backyard generators that rumble to life after power failures.
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Worlds built from imagination, wit and hard plastic return to the Extraco Events Center's Base facility this weekend with the return of the Waco Brick Convention, a commercial celebration built with Lego brand building blocks....
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AI-generated music will be excluded from Australia's music charts starting this week, the country's peak music trade group said, following controversy over an Australian DJ's cover of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" topping local music charts....
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They'll start the season in paradise, and that's great. They'd rather finish it in a different type of paradise.
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It's Week 0 for college football, which means an early start for four of New Mexico's five NCAA programs. Two of those games are Thursday with Western New Mexico heading to Alamosa, Colorado, to face Adams State, and the one…...
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The SEC has joined the Big Ten in preventing former NFL players and other professional athletes from returning to play college sports. The conference announced the new policy Tuesday evening following a meeting of the conference's presidents, chancellors and athletics…...
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7:30 p.m. Thursday at Birdville ISD Fine Arts/Athletic Complex
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College football rocks. Except when it rolls. Of course, sometimes it grooves. Other times, it's an outright hootenanny.
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It didn't take long for Devon Jordan to emerge as a leader in the Baylor cornerbacks room.
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A North Texas man who, as Johnny Carson said, "put Mickey Mouse out of work," has died.
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In a rare bipartisan effort, both the U.S. House and Senate recently passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the most significant federal housing law in decades. The goal of the legislation is to make housing more affordable, primarily…...
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We're near the end of the 2026 primary election season and the state of American democracy is looking — sigh of relief — better than expected.
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When Texas established "independent" school districts, the word "independent" was an intentional promise: The belief that local communities know best how to educate their own children....
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BOSTON — A coalition of Democratic-led states renewed their efforts Wednesday to block the U.S. Postal Service from implementing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, seeking to prevent it from imposing new requirements before ballots go out for…...
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Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad "sweet transvestite" in the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," has died at the age of 80, Variety and other outlets reported....
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Annual U.S. inflation held steady in July well above the Federal Reserve's 2% target for the 65th straight month, and the unexpected pause in the decline from a recent war-induced peak is likely to intensify the central bank's debate over…...
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins and attempts on the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate and other sensitive government agencies....
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WASHINGTON — AI agents spun up by OpenAI broke into its own networks during tests gone wrong, the company said in a report published Wednesday.
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The Southwest Association of Woodturners annual symposium will run Friday through Sunday at the Waco Convention Center, 100 Washington Ave.
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Transformation Waco will hold a "Science of Spirits" fundraiser from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Bledsoe-Miller STEAM Center, 300 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd....
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The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Hall of Fame with a commemorative dinner Saturday at the John Knox Memorial Center, 100 Texas Ranger Trail....
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Art in the Garden, featuring garden-themed crafts, will run from 11 a.m. to noon Friday at Urban REAP, 1509 N. 15th St.
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Cultivate Waco, 924 Austin Ave., Suite 100, will hold a Community Painting Workshop at 11 a.m. Saturday.
