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The latest developments • The second-largest blaze burning in Texas, the Windy Deuce Fire, has torched 142,000 acres and was 60% contained as of Friday, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service
February 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM. By Nathan Frandino, Rich McKay and Brendan O'Brien. CANADIAN, Texas (Reuters) -Fire crews fought to contain a wildfire that grew to the largest on record in Texas ...
Severe thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking ...
Killed. 2 [a] Injured. 2 (including self) [b] Date apprehended. September 25, 2005. Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (born December 31, 1979) is an American convicted under the Texas law of parties of murdering two family members as a 23-year-old. Whitaker was convicted on December 10, 2003, for the murders of his mother and 19-year-old brother; he was ...
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dallas. November 22, 1963. 2. While traveling in an open car, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood. Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas. November 24, 1963.
Strong storms lashed parts of Texas with destructive winds and potentially dangerous flooding as power outages left more than 1 million homes and businesses in the dark across the state on ...
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.