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Fire Damages Grounds for New Braunfels' Wurstfest
Fire destroyed one building and damaged another last week at an annual festival celebrating German culture in New Braunfels.
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Rhode Island Hookah Lounge Stabbing Suspect Caught in New Braunfels
Authorities say the suspect in a fatal stabbing at a Rhode Island hookah lounge earlier this month has been apprehended.
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Texas Scuba Diver Scours Rivers for Lost Valuables, Returns
Chris Young is the water world version of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of lost things. The San Antonio Express-News reports the diver for hire regularly patrols the Comal, Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers on his own in search of phones, wedding rings, sunglasses and other valuables accidentally dropped into the murky drink by river tubers.
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Schlitterbahn, Cedar Fair Enter $261M Water Park Sale Deal
A Texas-based water park company has announced an agreement to sell two of its attractions and will also give the buyer the right to acquire its Kansas site where a 10-year-old boy was killed nearly three years ago
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Buc-ee's Opens Its First Store Outside of Texas
The legendary Texas convenience store and travel center chain opened its first location outside the Lone Star State in Alabama on Monday.
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Air Force Failed 6 Times to Report Texas Church Gunman
The Air Force failed six times to report information that could have prevented the ex-airman who killed more than two dozen people in a Texas church from purchasing a gun, according to a government report released Friday.
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Santa Fe 10-Year Class Reunion Becomes Victims' Fundraiser
The Santa Fe High School class of 2008 expected their 10-year reunion to be low-key, but after a gunman killed 10 people and injured 13 more in May at their alma mater, the event turned into The Alumni Santa Fe Strong Benefit Concert.
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Owner of Waterpark Where Boy Died Probed Over Home Dispute
The co-owner of a Kansas waterpark where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on a raft ride is being investigated in Texas over a confrontation with people in his home.
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Designer of Schlitterbahn Water Slide Arrested at D/FW Intl. Airport
The designer of Schlitterbahn’s “Verruckt” water slide was taken into custody at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Monday night.
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Texas Church Gunman Sent Hostile Text Messages Before Attack
The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church had a history of domestic violence and sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, a member of First Baptist, before the attack in which he fired at least 450 rounds at helpless worshippers, authorities said Monday.
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The Latest: Two Men Who Pursued Texas Church Gunman Attend Shooting Vigil
The Latest on the church shooting in Texas — The two men who pursued the gunman after the Texas church shooting visited a vigil together and prayed with community members mourning the 26 people killed in the attack.
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Trump: Texas Mass Shooting is About Mental Health, Not Guns
Responding to a U.S. mass shooting for the second time in six weeks, President Donald Trump said Monday that it wasn’t “a guns situation” that was behind the slayings of more than two dozen worshipers at a Texas church a day earlier.
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AAA Texas Holds Teen Driver Safety Fair
The AAA Texas and the city of Irving held a Teen Driver Safety Fair to provide information and awareness to the community about the importance of safe driving.
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2nd Boy, 16, Charged in Slaying of New Braunfels Youth, 17
Police say a second South Texas boy has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old male during a disturbance in a neighborhood.
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Witness: Driver in Crash with Church Bus Admitted Texting Before Collision
The driver of a pickup truck that collided with a church minibus in rural Texas, killing 13 people, apologized after the crash and acknowledged he had been texting while driving, a witness said Friday.
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Families of Bus Crash Victims Gather to Cry, Grieve
The deaths of 13 senior adults in a crash as they returned home from a retreat has left fellow worshipers at their Texas church mourning the smiling regulars who served in the kitchen, led Bible studies and spent time in fellowship.
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Referendum Would Let Top Texas Officials Live Outside Austin
Top Republicans sometimes grouse about having to live in liberal-leaning Austin, the capital of America’s largest conservative state but something of a blue hole to much of the rest of Texas’ red doughnut.