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DALLAS, TX -- So many things are ingrained the culture of the Lone Star State.

DALLAS, TX -- Green Bay Packers fans headed to Dallas this weekend for the big Packers vs.

KYLE, TX -- A group of inmates in Kyle, Texas are giving back to the community.According to KXAN, every inmate at the Kyle Correctional Center struggled in one way or another with drugs in their past.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas – A 7-year-old girl was saved from a kidnapper thanks to the impressive actions of 11-year-old TJ Smith, say police in Wichita Falls, Texas.TJ tells KAUZ that he saw alleged kidnapper Raeshawn Perez grab the girl when she was playing outside Saturday afternoon."She was riding her scooter and he picked her up and started walking, and I chased after him.

TRAVIS COUNTY, TX -- An investigation is underway after a dump truck tipped over and killed a man in Texas.Officials say the incident occurred Friday, December 9th, in a neighborhood full of homes and some still under construction.According to authorities, while the dump truck was emptying out a load of dirt, somehow it was put off balance and it tipped over.The man was doing work on one of the new homes when the incident happened.

HOUSTON — A 53-pound alligator snapping turtle found stuck in a Texas drainage pipe is recovering after fire-rescue crews freed the prehistoric-looking animal Tuesday.The turtle was found in Hockley, a residential development roughly 35 miles northwest of Houston, after a resident noticed it wedged in the end of a pipe and called the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.When the rescue team arrived, they determined the pipe was dented at the opening, preventing the turtle from passing through.

RYAN, Texas -- A Texas A&M student told police she was taking a topless Snapchat selfie for her boyfriend moments before her SUV slammed into the back of a parked police car.It happened around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on East Villa Maria Road in Ryan, Texas.According to KBTX, Bryan Police Officer John Sartell  approached the vehicle to find the driver, 20-year-old Miranda Kay Radar, wearing an unclasped bra, attempting to put her shirt on.

DAYTON, TX - A city has to be known for something, and right now the small town of Dayton, Texas is making quite the name for itself with some big alligator captures.On Wednesday, they may have snagged one of the biggest gators of all; it measured out at 13' 8" and weighed in at a whopping 900 pounds.

BELLMEAD, TX – A Texas man allegedly beheaded his wife and kept her head in the family's refrigerator, KWTX reports.Officers responded to a call at a mobile home park in Bellmead on Thursday morning after a man told authorities he killed his wife.When police arrived, Davie Dauzat, 23, was barricaded inside a trailer with his two children, ages 1 and 2.A hostage negotiator made contact with Dauzat, and he eventually surrendered.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas teacher’s note to parents is going viral after it introduced a student-friendly approach to homework.Facebook user Samantha Gallagher shared a photo of the note, which her daughter’s teacher gave students, establishing the class homework policy.“After much research this summer, I am trying something new,” the note begins. “Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day.

SAN ANTONIO – A baby boy was found dead Friday afternoon after being left for almost nine hours in a hot car in a Texas Walmart parking lot, Helotes Police Cpt.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Terrifying surveillance video shows three armed men storming into a supermarket and trying to rob the place.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday, June 27th struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics in the court's biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.The justices voted 5-3 Monday in favor of Texas clinics that protested the regulations as a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state.Justice Stephen Breyer's majority opinion for the court held that the regulations are medically unnecessary and unconstitutionally limit a woman's right to an abortion.Texas had argued that its 2013 law and subsequent regulations were needed to protect women's health.

PEWAUKEE -- The United States Supreme Court on Monday, June 27th issued a major ruling -- striking down Texas' regulations requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.Supporters of the restrictions say they were necessary to protect women's health -- but in a 5-3 decision, the justices sided with clinics that had argued the regulations were a veiled attempt to make it more difficult for women to get abortions.This was the high court's first major decision on abortion in two decades.

KATY, Texas -- A Texas grandfather says a dead rodent was found inside his young grandson's bottle of Dr.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Authorities said on Friday, April 22nd flooding that claimed eight lives and displaced thousands of people in the Houston area caused more than $14 million in damage and inundated more than 1,700 homes.Officials said the damage figures from unincorporated areas of Harris County will increase significantly as floodwaters recede and inspectors get a closer look at ravaged neighborhoods.The damage estimates do not include a tally for the city of Houston.Houston and nearby counties have been hit with more than a foot of rain since Sunday night, April 17th, straining reservoirs and pushing rivers over their banks.Southwest of Houston, the Colorado River swelled to more than 48 feet, well past the flood stage of 39 feet, before slowly starting to recede.

MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee help is on the way.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- A Texas father was arrested for theft after he took away his 12-year-old daughter's cell phone.CBS DFW is reporting Ronald Johnson was arrested by Grand Prairie, Texas officers -- but a judge later ruled there was a lack of evidence to move forward with this case, and Johnson was found not guilty.Jackson told CBS DFW this all started back in 2013, when his daughter was 12.

MILWAUKEE -- The American Red Cross (Wisconsin) has deployed a total of 11 volunteers to Texas to support disaster relief efforts, as residents deal with flooding.Two Red Cross volunteers left Milwaukee on Tuesday morning, November 3rd, and another six were packing their suitcases on Tuesday evening.Two Red Cross volunteers are set to leave from General Mitchell International Airport on Wednesday morning.