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Michael Ramos has been charged with terroristic threat of family and evading arrest after a Wichita Falls Police officer responded to an incident at a house on Friday, April 2, around 11:30 p.m. Police were called to reports of a potential family violence situation having also attended the same address earlier that day, local newspaper the Times Record News reports. A neighbor reported to police that Ramos was making threats of killing his wife....

The list shows fewer than 90 unplanned outages in May, with the number skyrocketing to about 1,100 in June—more than a tenfold increase in one month. While the data release shows at which power plant each failure occurred, it does not do much to analyze the data or give the potential causes behind power failures. In an email to Newsweek, ERCOT spokesperson Leslie Sopko wrote, “the unplanned outages during the week of June 14 were due mostly to mechanical failures....

West, who took over the party in July 2020, will remain as chairman until a successor is selected on July 11, according to the Republican Party of Texas. The party thanked him for his efforts to make Republican gains in state legislation, in matters such as constitutional carry, the Heart Beat Bill and election integrity. “Lt. Col. Allen West will take this opportunity to prayerfully reflect on a new chapter in his already distinguished career....

Sarah Elizabeth Hunt, 39, allegedly shot and killed Garrett Hunt, 17, in Riesel on the morning of November 9. The boy’s body was found in Hunt’s white Hyundai minivan on a roadside just before 8 a.m, Waco police say. Hunt is said to have encountered two people near the Riesel Square in Riesel after the shooting and told them her son needed help and was “with her mother in heaven,” an affidavit says, as reported by KWTX News....

A survey released Sunday by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler found that among a general population of voters, Texans would choose McConaughey over O’Rourke by nearly 2-to-1. In total, 49 percent of all voters said they favored the film star, while just 27 percent said they would support O’Rourke. McConaughey has not yet said whether he will run for the office in 2022 or even what political affiliation he would choose, but the actor has been dropping heavy hints throughout the past year....

In the 2004 movie, a climate shift sparks extreme weather events throughout the world, blanketing the U.S. in snow and eventually resulting in a new ice age. Texas is experiencing freezing temperatures and inches of snow, with areas of the state facing power outages and dangerous road conditions. Javi Ramon shared a video of a street covered in snow and said: “I don’t think I’ll ever get [used] to seeing snow here in San Antonio!...

Lauren Keener, who supervises the Dapper Doughnuts store in El Paso, Texas, told KTSM that a man and a woman came into the store on Sunday morning for doughnuts, and were not properly wearing their face masks. While the couple waited for their order, Keener said she asked them to wear their masks inside the store or to wait outside. Keener said her request made the woman angry. “I handed her her doughnuts, and she got very confrontational with me and told me you can’t speak to your customers like this and then proceeded to throw the box at me,” Keener said....

Though his time in the Oval Office is over like the Cavaliers’ season, Obama carried on the time-honored tradition of filling out a bracket for March Madness. Like most everyone else, he had Virginia, the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, beating UMBC in the first round and advancing all the way to the national championship game. Before the 74-54 loss, Virginia’s official Twitter handle thanked Obama, a tweet that took on plenty of irony in hindsight and made its rounds on social media postgame....

About 18 miles south of Baghdad, Murray, named after World War II Medal of Honor recipient Col. Charles P. Murray and home to around 300 soldiers from the army’s 30th battalion, 2nd brigade, 3rd infantry division, is a lot rougher than most postings in Iraq. Only one hot meal is delivered from Falcon each day. There is nowhere to do laundry, and there is no running water except for the shower, which is always freezing cold....

The enormous turkey will be the official star of the show on November 25 but—whisper it—many people are more interested in savoring an array of delicious appetizers and side dishes. Here Newsweek has collected some super-easy ideas for Thanksgiving entrées and accompaniments. 1. Brie, Cranberry and Camembert Pastry The GG Sisters have shown how to make a Thanksgiving appetizer using just four ingredients. Take a packet of store-bought croissant party, roll it out, cut it into bite-sized squares and press into a muffin tin....

The National Dog Show Presented by Purina will be hosted by author and Broadway actor John O’Hurley (known from Seinfeld and Dancing with the Stars television series) and David Frei, an expert analyst and judge licensed by the American Kennel Club (AKC). 2021 Thanksgiving National Dog Show Start Time and Channel The National Dog Show is a beloved Thanksgiving tradition. The show’s been aired on NBC for the past 19 years, reaching an audience of over 15 million viewers each Thanksgiving Day....

Two of America’s favorite pastimes—eating oversized amounts of food and sports—collide on Thursday and the Dallas Cowboys will take on the Washington Football Team. At halftime, as the players are back in their locker rooms strategizing for the second half, country music singer Kane Brown will entertain the crowd. The game is set to start at 4:30 ET, and while there’s no set time for the halftime show, the average football game lasts a little more than three hours, putting the halftime show around 6 p....

“This is not a normal Thanksgiving. It’s just not a normal Thanksgiving, despite the commercialization,” Cuomo said during a press conference. “I’m sitting there last night, I’m watching television, all these commercials, ‘Thanksgiving is coming…here’s Thanksgiving.’ Twenty people around a table, everybody drinking, passing turkey, laughing, kissing, hugging. All beautiful pictures of Thanksgiving in the storybook setting, the way we wish it could be.” He continued, “Those commercials have nothing to do with what this Thanksgiving should be, because those commercials are selling cranberry sauce and they’re selling liquor and they’re selling turkey stuffing....

That’s the power of the Non-Stick Football League where commissioner Roger Goodell won’t be resigning as its Teflon don. Protection isn’t the main goal with the league’s familiar shield. It’s deflection. There has been public outrage over Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, so much so that the conversation has become requisite discourse well beyond football. As for professional football, the game itself and multibillion-dollar entertainment product, that remains unscathed....

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday that Clark has retracted his allegation that Pujols used performance-enhancing drugs, and Pujols has decided to drop his defamation lawsuit against Clark. The two men on Monday released statements that were obtained by the Post-Dispatch. MORE FROM STL TODAY: 10 things to watch at Cardinals’ camp From Clark: "I would like to address Albert Pujols' pending defamation lawsuit and re-confirm that I have no knowledge whatsoever that Mr....

The TIle Sticker (pictured above) is a small circular tracker designed to be attached to “most metal and plastic materials”. This is made possible by a 3M-designed adhesive strip, which sits on the bottom of the disc and should be good for three to five years, according to the company. The device offers a three-year battery life, 150 foot range of connectivity, and comes waterproofed for outdoor use. This means it can be used to keep tabs on a diverse range of your belongings, including bikes, tents, and skateboards – as well as helping you locate TV remotes and other valuables, in case you coughed up for one of the best compact cameras recently....

California, a beautiful land graced by mild weather, lost population last year for the first time in its 170-year history as a state. That 80,000 residents are fleeing annually to Texas, where summers are markedly less enjoyable, speaks volumes about California’s craptacular governance. Corporations are also leaving in droves. Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise packed their bags for Texas late last year, and Tesla is building its newest Gigafactory outside of Austin....

Fast forward to 333 years later, and the venue is in some important news - according to a “Guardian” report, Mitcham Cricket Green is now under threat of being sold to developers. A set of developers that goes under the name of Phoenix Group Investments have bought off a large area of land in the premises - which includes the venue’s 115-year-old pavilion, the Burn Bullock (a pub named after Surrey batsman and Mitcham stalwart Burnett Bullock), and a car park....

Turns out, there are free and open-source apps available to handle each of these tasks on Linux. And the options available may be more diverse than you think. 1. Color Picker When it comes to Color Picker for GNOME, the app’s name says it all. Or so it may seem. Do you want to select a color from another window or image on your screen? You can do that. Alternatively, you can select your own color from the color wheel and copy and paste the corresponding RGB numbers or hexadecimal values into a separate app....