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				<title>Super Bowl LI Officially Awarded to Houston</title>
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			Houston will host its third Super Bowl in February 2017. NFL owners voted to award the event to Houston over Miami, who lost the bid when stadium plans fell through. The last Super Bowl in Housto...]]></description>
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				<title>Down Boy: Texas Ranks Third in Most Dog Bites in the U.S.</title>
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			 Being a mail carrier for the postal service must be a bitch, particularly in older neighborhoods where they have to walk up to houses instead of just driving by a mailbox. There's the heat and c...]]></description>
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				<title>Arraignment Today for Huffman Woman Who Put Son Up for Adoption on Craigslist </title>
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Having trouble raising the kids? Put them up for adoption on Craigslist.

At least that's what one area mom did for her son. Stephanie Redus of Huffman sent out a desperate plea to the Craigs...]]></description>
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				<title>Weather Week: Heat, Rain, Possible Severe Weather But Probably No Tornadoes</title>
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			 It's tough not to think about weather after the devastating tornadoes that hit Oklahoma the last two days. The probably F-5 tornado that struck Moore just south of Oklahoma City could be one of ...]]></description>
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				<title>Downing Street Pub Manager Joseph Dufault Died In Sunday&apos;s Hummer Wreck</title>
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			The Harris County Medical Examiner's office confirmed to Hair Balls that Downing Street Pub Manager Joseph Dufault died in Sunday's single-vehicle wreck on Allen Parkway. Dufault was driving a Hu...]]></description>
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				<title>Dan Patrick Announces End to Pro-Islamic CSCOPE -- Main Supporter, in Celebration, Yells Out &apos;Yeehaw!&apos;</title>
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			 Months after becoming one of the favored bogeymen among certain right-wing circles, it appears CSCOPE, the curriculum and lesson framework used in nearly 900 school districts around the state, i...]]></description>
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				<title>The State Water Plan May Not Be Dead (The Unkillable Zombie of Legislation?)</title>
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			Going into the 83rd state legislative session, it seemed as if the state water plan would swim on through the legislative plumbing faster than Nemo went down that sink drain and onward to freedom...]]></description>
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				<title>Steven Hotze Gets Funky: His New Songs Denounce Obamacare But Are Sadly Silent on Why Birth Control Makes Chicks Ugly</title>
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			  We were stoked to hear that Republican activist Steven Hotze -- a physician who once extolled the virtues of 19th century snake oil such as colloidal silver and who belongs to a hardcore Christ...]]></description>
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				<featured_headline>Steven Hotze Gets Funky: His Songs Denounce Obamacare</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>5 Thoughts On Jay-Z&apos;s Getting Skylar Diggins The Best Graduation Present Ever!</title>
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			 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, like women's hoops star Skylar Diggins this past weekend, I graduated from the University of Notre Dame.

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				<featured_headline>Thoughts On Jay-Z&apos;s Gift to Skylar Diggins</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Kaufman County Copycat Killings?</title>
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			 Most people reading about the killings of Kaufman County officials earlier this year - Mark Hasse, an assistant district attorney was shot on the courthouse steps in January, then District Attor...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Dynamo Learn, &apos;You Can&apos;t Win Them All&apos;</title>
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			Have you ever been traveling, and you just have this sneaky suspension that you left something in the hotel room?

The lads in Orange over at BBVA Compass Stadium might be having that same feelin...]]></description>
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				<title>Tale of the Tape, &quot;Butchered National Anthem&quot; Category: Alexis Normand vs Frank Drebin</title>
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			Music is a tough business. Thousands of artists are writing and performing tens of thousands of songs every day for little to no wage, trying to strike it big and gain some degree of relevance.

...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Most Texas A&amp;M Fees Missing Documentation, University Insists No Money Misspent </title>
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Any high school student in Houston will, or should, automatically know one of the biggest colleges to get into is Texas A&M. That is, if you have the money or the scholarships to afford the tuit...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Reid Ryan Wants a More Fan-Friendly Astros, So Here Are Our Suggestions</title>
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			 In his introductory press conference on Friday, new Astros team president Reid Ryan made it clear that things are going to change. He wants the team to be more fan-friendly, and he said he's goi...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Reid Ryan Wants A More Friendly Astros: Our Suggestions</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>NASA Budget Cuts Could Hit Johnson Space Center (First No Shuttle, Now This?)</title>
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			In recent years, NASA has been hit pretty hard, and another hit may be coming.

We're a long ways off from the days when JFK told the nation that the United States would put a man on the moon, an...]]></description>
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				<featured_headline>NASA Budget Cuts Could Hit Johnson Space Center (First No Shuttle, Now This?)</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Mario Williams Can Now Actually Arrest His Haters</title>
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			  The relationship between former Texan Mario Williams and the city of Houston has always been somewhat dicey. 

It goes all the way back to the day he was drafted in 2006, when most of Houston w...]]></description>
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				<title>George Bush Intercontinental Is One of the Top Hookup Spots; Who Knew?</title>
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			 You thought the only action you were going to see at George Bush Intercontinental Airport was from that one airport security guard who always gets a little handsy in the pat-downs, but you've go...]]></description>
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				<title>Johnny Manziel Officially Concocts the Most Creative First Pitch Ever at Padres Game</title>
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			Cabo spring breaks, courtside NBA seats, luxury boxes at concerts, appearances on Letterman, rounds of golf at Pebble Beach, batting practice in Major League Baseball stadiums...

I'm pretty sure...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>New Azerbaijan Cultural Center Shows Why Baku Was the Houston of the Soviet Union</title>
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			 Irada Akhoundova remembers when the Soviet military rumbled outside her house. It was late 1991, post-perestroika, pre-independence, and Akhoundova, a principal of one of the schools of the Azer...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:52 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Three Men Accused of Beating Pregnant Woman; Newborn in Critical Condition</title>
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			Harris County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday they had arrested two men and one juvenile accused of beating a pregnant woman after breaking into her home in northwest Harris County. The w...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:03 -0600</pubDate>
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