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A fiery explosion at an industrial plant in the Houston area shock homes as far as a half-mile from the plant. Full Story »

A 47-year-old Copperas Cove man has been arrested by a Texas Attorney General's office investigator after being caught up in a nationwide FBI child pornography investigation. Full Story »

News Channel 25 has uncovered new detail surrounding Tuesday's discovery of a woman's body in Lake Whitney. Full Story »

A Central Texas woman was arrested after allegedly breaking into a Copperas Cove home to fight with another woman. Full Story »

Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced... Full Story »

Just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, Tenth Court of Appeals Judge Felipe Reyna was involved in a head-on collision near Exit 325 of Interstate 35. Full Story »

The Texas Workforce Commission is tripling the unemployment tax nearly two-thirds of the state's businesses will pay per employee each year. Full Story »

The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan is telling Congress that President Barack Obama's new war strategy is achievable and that combat force levels can be reduced starting in the summer of 2011. Full Story »

Emergency responders are trying to rescue a man trapped up to his chest in a cesspool on New York's Long Island. Full Story »

A convicted Cuban spy's prison term has been reduced from life to 30 years after an appeals court ruled the original sentence was too severe. Full Story »

Bosque County Sheriff's Deputies say they are considering a homicide investigation following the discovery of a woman's body near Soldiers Bluff Park on Lake Whitney. Full Story »

Four Missouri men have received prison sentences for federal crimes involving dogfighting. Full Story »

After North Carolina was forced to release a series of wrongly convicted people from prisons early in the decade, leaders established a pioneering agency to swiftly assess claims of innocence. Full Story »

It's become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole,perhaps as the result of a dare. Full Story »

The supersized recession that was a boon for business last year caught up further with McDonald's Corp. in November, as high unemployment ate into sales. Full Story »

Ballots cast in a tight Atlanta runoff race for mayor will be recounted at the request of the runner-up, who lost by just over 700 votes. Full Story »

A forensic psychologist says the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has a delusional disorder. Full Story »

A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after, police said, she was befriended by a Maryland woman who held her captive for several days and tried to cut the baby from her womb. Full Story »

Police say a doctor has been shot to death at a medical clinic in rural Kentucky. Full Story »

A now-retired Hartford police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter for an on-duty shooting in 2005. Full Story »

Louisiana's Democratic lieutenant governor says that he's going to take a third shot at becoming New Orleans' mayor. Full Story »

A Vietnam veteran has received a Purple Heart, more than four decades late. Full Story »

A Chicago man charged with helping to plan the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 dead will appear in court on Wednesday to respond to the charges, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Full Story »

Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan plans to change the state's ethics rules to fix problems brought to light by complaints against former Gov. Sarah Palin. Full Story »

A fierce winter storm was leaving dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds in its wake as it slogged eastward Wednesday, snarling traffic and closing hundreds of schools from the Upper Midwest through New England. Full Story »