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Here's a look at 13 events — good, bad and otherwise — that have occurred on a Friday the 13th.
After accidentally dropping her phone into an Olympic National Forest outhouse, a woman used dog leashes to tie herself off so she could reach it. She ended up falling into the toilet headfirst.
The man who inhaled the drill bit said he now keeps the it on a shelf at home.
In Rio de Janeiro, two rescue dogs have turned local mascots and budding online influencers after joining their rescuers' ranks, wooing their growing audience, one bark at a time.
Here's a look at some of the strangest news stories from the past week.
One of two flamingos that escaped from a Kansas zoo during a storm 17 years ago has been spotted on the coast of Texas, wildlife officials said.
Almost 60 years after artist Yves Klein's death, a receipt he wrote to prove ownership of his invisible artwork is up for sale, with Sotheby's estimating that it could fetch up to$551,000.
Friday the 13th has long been viewed as bad luck, but do bad things really happen more often on those days? Here's a look at 13 events — good, bad and otherwise — that have occurred on a Friday the 13th.
Contestants must carry a pancake in a frying pan and flip it at the beginning and end of the 415-yard race. The event began in Olney, England in the 15th century.
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The painting, dating from the 1930s, shows three torsos and heads with hair but no facial features; the vandal drew eyes on two of them with a ballpoint pen.
Read through the obituaries published today in Waco Tribune-Herald.
Special brackets for the Waco Suspension Bridge costing an additional $87,000 will stabilize the bridge’s cables for the long term, while fitting in the narrow confines of the bridge’s anchor houses, according to parks and recreation officials.
With gas prices eclipsing $4 a gallon and diesel crowding $6, imagine filling up a thirsty police car, gravel truck or road grader almost daily.
A woman fatally shot a man Tuesday morning outside a plasma donation center in the 5300 block of Bosque Boulevard, prompting Waco’s 13th murder investigation of 2022, Waco police said.
The girlfriend of a man arrested in a shooting in Dallas’ Koreatown that wounded three women of Asian descent in a hair salon told police that he has delusions that Asian Americans are trying to harm him. That's according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Police say Jeremy Smith, who is Black, was arrested Tuesday in the shooting. He faces three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The FBI said Tuesday that it has opened a federal hate crime investigation into the shooting. Police say they are still investigating whether Smith was involved in two previous drive-by shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans. Police had said there could be a connection between those shootings and the one at the salon because the description of the suspect vehicle was similar.
On Thursday, ERCOT told at least one Texas power plant to delay scheduled repairs and keep operating to help meet demand. The next day, the plant went offline anyway after it stopped working properly.
Coryell County gets $3.4 million in Hurricane Harvey aid plan as Texas diverts money away from coast
Of the more than 300,000 homes in Texas damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, none were in Coryell County.
Austin American-Statesman. May 11, 2022.
A woman fatally shot a man Tuesday morning outside a plasma donation center in the 5300 block of Bosque Boulevard, prompting Waco’s 13th murder investigation of 2022, Waco police said.
The man who tackled the attacker in a church shooting, and later died in the gunfire in California on Sunday, was a Baylor alumnus.
The following people were indicted last week by a McLennan County grand jury.
A rapid volley of gunfire in the 2900 block of Morrow Avenue early Sunday left a woman with serious injuries and continued a streak of gunfire incidents this month in the Brookview neighborhood.
Special brackets for the Waco Suspension Bridge costing an additional $87,000 will stabilize the bridge’s cables for the long term, while fitting in the narrow confines of the bridge’s anchor houses, according to parks and recreation officials.
With gas prices eclipsing $4 a gallon and diesel crowding $6, imagine filling up a thirsty police car, gravel truck or road grader almost daily.
Magnolia will market the Waco area as an ideal place for businesses and those for whom the grind never stops as part of a $1.2 million economic development agreement involving the firm’s new downtown headquarters.
A small Waco neighborhood park has reopened after renovations, and parks officials want to draw more people to the new playground and low-key fishing pond neighbors have enjoyed for years.