From 2013 08 30 Berkner vs South Garland The car thermometer read 104° on the way to the game at 7:00 p.m. It read 95° on the way home at...

From 1977 03 23 Afghanistan Herat , the major city in western Afghanistan, is far from Kabul in the east and Pakistan's back door, wh...

Jared Patterson is running in the 2014 GOP primary to replace Angie Chen Button as representative in Texas House District 112. He posted th...

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