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Texas A&M cancels classes UPDATE: 11:22 a.m. CT Texas A&M University-College Station posted on X that all classes scheduled for Friday, July 19, would be canceled, citing “vendor IT outages.” However, all university campuses remain open, and operations are running regularly. “This outage was caused by a faulty update to the application and causes Windows computers to enter a reboot loop. This was not caused by a cyberattack, but rather a technical issue with the vendor,” university officials sai…
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was ordered by a Texas judge earlier this month to take a paternity test, upholding a 2022 decision in a legal dispute brought by Alexandra Davis, which Jones’ lawyers had contested. The 27-year-old woman alleges that the NFL magnate and oil-and-gas billionaire is her biological father and that she’s the product of a relationship her mother had with Jones sometime in the mid-1990s. According to Davis, Jones agreed to financially support her so long as he never ha…
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UPDATE: Feb. 20 Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old girl who went missing six days ago while on her way to school in Livingston, Texas was found dead Tuesday afternoon, Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons announced Tuesday afternoon. Search crews located her body in an area around US-59 and the Trinity River Bridge near her home in Livingston, Texas. The sheriff said the Trinity River Authority slowed down the outflow from the reservoir to lower the water levels in the river so search teams could lo…
7 months ago
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After leading the Texas Longhorns to their first ever College Football Playoff this past season, head coach Steve Sarkisian was bound to get that bag. Just in time, too, as Texas is set to join the SEC and its vaunted slate of opponents including Georgia, Alabama and LSU next year. Sarkisian’s new salary, which reportedly starts at $10.3 million in 2024 and scales up by $100,000 each season until 2030, is nearly double the $5.8 million he was originally expected to make. His extension is set to…
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Houston icon and persistent furniture salesman Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale was originally scheduled to throw out the first pitch of Saturday afternoon’s playoff matchup between his beloved Astros and the Minnesota Twins at Minute Maid Park. However, McIngvale claims those plans were abruptly upended when one of his national competitors forced the Astros to cancel his appearance. In a video posted Saturday to X, formerly known as Twitter, McIngvale starts out by saying how excited he was when…
12 months ago
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The 13,000 square-foot “architectural masterpiece” designed by Houston visionary Robert Dame was inspired by the great estates of Europe.
about 1 year ago
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The NCAA tournament’s games require pristine floors, and prepping them for tip-off is a...
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Update: Jose Altuve to undergo surgery on fractured right thumb Houston Astros star Jose Altuve was knocked out of the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals Saturday night after he was hit in the hand by an inside fastball from USA reliever Daniel Bard in the fifth inning. Altuve, who’s suiting up for his home country of Venezuela during this month’s international event, didn’t return to the game. According to a report from USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, Altuve could miss eight to 10 weeks with a b…
over 1 year ago
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It seems everyone is finally discovering what Texans have known all along.
over 1 year ago
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The machines seem very confident in Houston’s aims to repeat as World Series champions...
over 1 year ago
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The strip’s creator Scott Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” in a video posted...
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