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Friday, April 19, 2013  A law enforcement official says two more bodies have been recovered in the wake of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, bring the death toll from the blast to 14.

Friday, April 19, 2013  Live Press Conference from West, Texas.

Friday, April 19, 2013  Federal investigators say they will begin inspecting the site of the devastating fertilizer plant explosion in an effort to collect debris and other evidence that may point to a cause of the fatal blast.

Friday, April 19, 2013  A Texas law enforcement official says 12 bodies have been recovered following a massive explosion that leveled a fertilizer plant.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012  A Texas congressman is calling for hearings in response to a newspaper report that an alarming number of Texas veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have died of prescription drug overdoses.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012  A Texas man is accused of beating, strangling and starting to eat his family's dog after chasing a neighbor on his hands and knees while barking and growling.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011  The Amarillo City Commission is traveling to Sugar Land this week to get ideas for Amarillo’s downtown revitalization project.

Friday, September 10, 2010  A central Texas jury has sentenced a man to 99 years in prison for stealing a carton of cigarettes from a smoke shop.

Friday, August 20, 2010  A legally blind Waco woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for causing a December traffic accident that left a motorcycle rider dead.

Friday, May 21, 2010  A Waco school district police officer has been suspended for three days after he shot at the tire of a drunk student's fleeing car.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010  A pilot from Waco whose single-engine plane apparently had mechanical trouble ditched the aircraft in Lake Whitney and safely swam to shore.

Thursday, March 04, 2010  Baylor University officials say the Waco school has received the largest donation in its history: an anonymous gift worth $200 million.

Friday, February 26, 2010  Condemned inmate Richard Tabler, who used a smuggled cell phone to threaten a state senator from death row, has won a reprieve from his scheduled May execution.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  Texas dealt with its second winter storm in as many weeks as scores of flights were canceled and snow fell as far south as Austin and San Antonio.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  Texas dealt with its second winter snowstorm in as many weeks as scores of flights were canceled and road crews used sand to prep for possible icy conditions.