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Lufkin Animal Shelter Receives National Buzz Online

Jen Austin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:12:55 +0000

A few days ago, Stacey Faulkner tweeted a photograph of a dog potentially being mishandled by workers at a Lufkin Animal Shelter. That caught the attention of not only her own Twitter Followers, but also the attention of singer Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20.

The firestorm led to an investigation into the animal's treatment at Kurth Memorial Animal Shelter.

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Military Dad Surprises Family In Front of 85,000 at College Football Game

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:17:49 +0000

When Tammy Faile and her two children were chosen as the military family of the game for South Carolina's match up Saturday against the University of Georgia, they probably expected some sort of message from their husband and father Sgt. First Class Scott Faile, who is stationed in South Korea.

And that's what they got at halftime, a video message on the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice stadium's Jumbotron.

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Disturbing Video Shows Kids Bullying Elderly Bus Monitor [VIDEO]

Andree Valentine — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:06:59 +0000

I heard Kidd Kraddick talking about this story this morning on my way to work, and my heart hurt for the woman they were talking about.

After watching this video, I am infuriated by the kids’ actions and in total shock that our youth can be so hurtful and ruthless. When I was younger, my friends and I respected adults because they were the authority figure. Now, kids don’t think the rules apply to them, and they’re not afraid of adults. I blame this on the parents and their parenting skills.

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Honor Student Cleared of Truancy Charge

Jim Bell — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:46:28 +0000

A judge in Montgomery County has come to his senses, and has dropped the contempt citation he slapped on a high school honors student he put in jail for truancy. The 17 year old student is also refusing to accept financial donations that are pouring in from around the world.

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Study: Kids Provoke and Video Many Teacher Tantrums

Jim Bell — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:34 +0000

It's called cyber-baiting, and it's a growing phenomenon in today's electronic and connected world. It happens when students deliberately provoke a teacher to the breaking point.

When the teacher finally "loses it", they video his or her emotional or angry outburst on their cellphones and the video goes viral on YouTube in a matter of minutes.

It's humiliating, it destroys a teacher's morale, and as it has in many cases, it can cost them their job.

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Lufkin Sports Car Owner Sued for Insurance Fraud

Jim Bell — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:15:20 +0000

Remember that Lufkin man who drove his million dollar high performance Bugatti sports car into a lagoon off Galveston Bay two years ago, and claimed it was an accident?

He filed an insurance claim for more than two million dollars, but the insurance company isn't buying his story. The company has sued him for insurance fraud.

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State Supreme Court Suspends Judge Video'd Beating Daughter

Jim Bell — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:22:46 +0000

The Texas Supreme Court has suspended the south Texas judge whose video-taped beating of his teenage daughter in 2004 ended up on the Internet and was viewed millions of times.

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Safeway Drops Shoplifting Charges Against Young Mom-to-be

Jim Bell — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:48:42 +0000

Just when you think you've heard everything, there comes this story of a young pregnant woman who was arrested for munching on a sandwich she picked up in a Safeway store in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Her problem was that she ate the sandwich before she paid for it, and she was arrested. To make things worse, her little girl was taken away by CPS.

The story went viral, and after a firestorm of criticism, Safeway has backed down and apologized for the way the incident was handled.

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New Video Emerges of United Flight 93 Crash Aftermath on September 11 [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:13:14 +0000

A few days ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a new home video showing the aftermath of United Flight 93′s crash into a Pennsylvania field has been released.

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