Amazing

It's not just a new biomass power plant.  In keeping with the Texas tradition of everything being "bigger and better", the new biomass power plant in Nacogdoches County is the largest power plant of its kind in the United States.

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Yes the gators are going to town.  The endless heavy rains in Houston last week brought the usual floods and mosquitoes, but nobody expected to see alligators just a short drive from downtown Houston.

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Here's an update on Dez Bryant's latest problem. We know he was arrested Saturday on a charge of Family Violence.  Now the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports it is his mother, Angela Bryant, that he is charged with assaulting.

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Every now and then we find stories that just defy explanation. Stories so weird and off the wall they just leave you shaking your head in amazement.

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We all know that San Antonio ranks first in several desirable categories related to tourism, but you may not know that it also ranks first in a dubious and undesirable category. The San Antonio Express-News reports that statistically -- Bexar County ranks first in "road rage accidents."

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This has to be one of the weirdest stories we've come across in a while.  The Houston Chronicle reports an Illinois man has pleaded guilty in Tyler Federal Court to taking  semen from a deer that had been brought into Texas illegally, in violation of interstate commerce laws.

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Here's a national news story that is just dripping with irony, but you won't find it in any mainstream news source.

You have to go to an alternative source outside the mainstream to learn that the NAACP and the Justice Department required local and national news reporters to show two kinds of photo ID's just to get in and cover Attorney General Eric Holder's speech at the NAACP national convention in Houston earlier this week.

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Someone at the Beaumont Enterprise apparently got so fed up with an irritating and obnoxious cell phone user they put together a photo essay showing 17 irritating things people do with cell phones. Just 17?   This is just the short list.

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