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Insider Jon Rothstein commends Jon Scheyer for addressing major problem that "Duke may have felt" amid March Madness collapse vs Houston
Sportskeeda
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June 18, 2025
Duke coach Jon Scheyer has assembled a challenging nonconference schedule for the upcoming season, featuring matchups against Kansas, Florida, North Carolina and Arkansas. Scheyer felt the need to seek out marquee opponents as a way of toughening...
Prologis Energy strikes 400 MW battery deal to boost Houston energy storage
Energy Global
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June 18, 2025
Prologis Energy has closed the sale of its largest battery energy storage project to date, a 400 MW (800 MWh) facility located just southwest of Houston in Alvin, Texas. The project is part of Prologis’ intent to develop utility-scale energy...
Texas man admits guilt in plane sexual assault case
Evergreen Reporter - Washington
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June 17, 2025
Teal Luthy Miller Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington | U.S. Attorney for the Western District of WashingtonTeal Luthy Miller Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington | U.S. Attorney for...
How Is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Stock Performance Compared to Other Technology Stocks?
Yahoo Finance
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co San Jose campus-by Michael Vi via Shutterstock Spring, Texas-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) delivers solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly. Valued at $23.9...
Texas’ App-Store Age Verification Law, Explained
The Dispatch
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June 18, 2025
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the App Store Accountability Act in late May, the second-most populous state in the union doubled down on age verification as the way to limit minors’ unfettered access to harmful online content, even as a...
Explaining Houston’s downpours in the summertime: the daily diurnal dilemma
KPRC - Texas
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June 17, 2025
HOUSTON – June has arrived in Houston, and with it comes a familiar forecast. We have daily chances (20-30%) for afternoon thunderstorms. These storms are mostly scattered, sometimes strong, but generally not well-organized. These thunderstorms...
What does science tell us about God?
Denison Forum - Texas
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June 18, 2025
Dr. Mark Turman sits down with Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute and author of Return of the God Hypothesis, Darwin’s Doubt, and Signature in the Cell. Together, they explore how recent...
Paxton requests new execution date for East Texas death row inmate
Marshall News Messenger - Texas
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, the East Texas man whose execution was delayed last year after his case became a political lightning rod that shook up the state’s judicial system....
Down, down, down: new drilling technologies are improving prospects for geothermal power by reducing project duration, cutting costs and drilling deeper wells
Energy Knowledge - Energy Institute
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The Sugarloaf appraisal well was drilled to 15,765 ft – Fervo Energy says it hopes the results expand the window for the commercial viability of EGS into ‘a significantly deeper and hotter regime’ Photo: Fervo Energy Fervo Energy drills a...
Analysis: The 2025 Texas Senate, from right to left
KSAT - Texas
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June 18, 2025
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate’s roll-call votes during this year’s regular legislative session allow us to once again rank the 31...
Texas Bitcoin Reserve Law Triggers Sunday—Silence Means Yes
Bitcoinist
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June 18, 2025
Texas is now within a single, silent procedural heartbeat of creating the nation’s largest government-run stash of bitcoin. Senate Bill 21, the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Investment Act, was dispatched to Gov. Greg Abbott on June 1 after...
Texas STAAR test scores show mixed results, sparking debate on validity
CBS Austin - Texas
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AUSTIN, Texas — The latest STAAR test scores have been released, showing improvements in some areas but declines in others, prompting a mixed response from education officials and advocacy groups. Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath...
Houston archaeologists stranded in Israel; efforts underway to get home amid conflict
FOX 26 Houston - Texas
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A group of archaeologists found themselves stranded in Israel once the conflict broke out, and several of them are from the Houston area. HOUSTON - Several Houston-area local archaeologists found themselves stranded in Israel once the Tel Aviv...
UT Tyler professor receives grant from National Science Foundation
KYTX/CBS 19 - Texas
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TYLER, Texas — Alwathiqbellah Ibrahim, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UT Tyler, has been awarded the Faculty Development Early Career grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). "We congratulate Dr. Ibrahim on this...
Texas attorney general requests new execution date for Robert Roberson
KBTX - Texas
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June 17, 2025
ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requested a new execution date for 58-year-old Robert Roberson, the East Texas man who is facing a capital murder charge for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis...
Documentary Reveals Houston’s Unsung Blues Legacy
Texas Signal
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June 18, 2025
The phrase “luv ya, blue” is synonymous with Houston thanks to the Oilers football team, but maybe the phrase should be “luv ya, blues.” The Bayou City is one of the most important places in the history of the musical genre, but scant few people...
Houston remains one of the most affordable big cities, but that's at risk of changing
ABC 13 - Texas
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June 18, 2025
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Is Houston as affordable as it once was? The answer seems to be yes and no. A new housing study from the Kinder Institute of Urban Research at Rice University reveals that, while Houston is still among the most affordable...
Smokey Mo’s Marks 25 Years of Texas BBQ and Eyes Statewide Growth
QSR Magazine - North Carolina
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June 17, 2025
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer, Smokey Mo’s TX BBQ touts itself as the “best neighborhood BBQ in Texas.” With a quarter-century of experience serving slow-smoked meat alongside warm comfort food faves, the brand is stoking the...
Texas Division of Emergency Management appoints new chief for recovery and mitigation role
Crossroads Today - Texas
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AUSTIN – The Texas Division of Emergency Management has appointed Stevee Franks as Section Chief for Recovery and Mitigation Region 4. Region 4 includes Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda,...
RED HORSE construction squad erects building at Texas A&M's RELLIS campus
My Aggie Nation - Texas
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Members of the US Air Force’s 560th RED HORSE Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina work to construct the Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Construction Field Lab at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan. MEREDITH SEAVER,THE EAGLE “The Air...