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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 7, 2011

  The number of homes destroyed by wildfires in Texas has now risen from 300 over the Labor Day weekend to at least 1,000 homes destroyed as of Tuesday, and at least 100,000 acres have been scorched across the state. Two more people since the weekend have been reported dead, their identities not yet revealed [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 5, 2011

  A huge wildfire that started yesterday in Bastrop County, Texas has grown and is far from containment — more than 300 homes have been destroyed, as well as 14,000 acres. Thousands of people have already been evacuated. Other fires are raging across the state. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been on the road [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | August 26, 2011

  More barbaric murders in Mexico — at least two dozen armed and masked attackers, believed to be linked to the Mexican drug cartels, stormed in and used gasoline to torch the crowded Casino Royale in the northern city of Monterrey last night. People who were in the casino were unable to escape because the [...]

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