Blanco High School pipe bomb prompt lives saved
An Austin Police Department Bomb Squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms safely detonated a pipe bomb found Monday in the Blanco High School boys bathroom. A campus evacuation followed and about a third of students stayed home Tuesday. Four people were arrested, including a 17-year-old former student charged with a second degree felony.
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Blanco
Austin Police Department
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Blanco High
Blanco High School
Blanco HS
Bill Guthrie
Blanco County
Columbine High School
January 12 History Highlights From 1948 To 1932
Key events include the 1948 Supreme Court ruling against race discrimination in law school admissions, Maximilian I's death in 1519, Charleston establishing America’s first public museum in 1773, the 1915 House vote on women’s suffrage, and Hattie Caraway becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1932.
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Supreme Court
Maximilian I
America
Charleston
S.C
House of Representatives
Hattie W. Caraway
U.S. Senate
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Trail Push
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez sponsors US House bill to designate El Camino Real de los Tejas as National Historical Trail linking San Antonio Los Adaes and various missions and parks. The proposed trail aims to connect public lands and educate about Texas Spanish frontier history.
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Louisiana
Coahuila
Alonso de Leon
Spain
Provincia de Texas
Domingo Teran de Los Rios
San Antonio
Goliad
San Francisco de la Espada
San Juan Capistrano
Nuestra Senora de la Purisima
Concepcion de la Acuna
England
East Texas
Capi
Mission Nuestra Senora de Los Dolores de Los Ais
San Augustine
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Goliad State Park
McKinney Falls State Park
San Agustin Laredo Historic District
Republic of the Rio Grand Museum
Laredo
Rio Grand
Ciro D. Rodriguez
U.S
House of Representatives
el Camino Real de Los Tejas
Rodriguez
Winter paranoia and political denial in Texas hunger
Molly Ivins notes rising paranoia about Y2K and global warming amid partisan flip in Washington. She cites Texas hunger figures, USDA data, and aid groups like the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley while lampooning Gov. Bush’s denial and the political weaponization of science.
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Minsk
Dr. Frankenstein
Igor
al Gore
Dubya Bush
Gov. Dubya
Food Bank of
Rio Grande Valley
Linda Foraker
Southwest Food Pantry
Christian Life Church
Austin
Bush
The
Austin American-Statesman
Texas
Molly Ivins
Fort Worth
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Herald-Zeitung
New Braunfels Zeitung
New Braunfels Herald
Doug Toney
Margaret Edmonson
Bill O'Connell
Herald-Zeitung.com
Editorial
Associated Press
Pradley
Strategic Defense Initiative
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Moolly Ivins
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