- Lee Harvey Oswald’s original coffin sold for $90,000 in mid-December. Could someone possibly have bought it as a tasteless holiday gift?
- Part of the reason the character of Mattie Ross in the movie True Grit is so impressive is the Texan social worker who played the grown-up Mattie.
- A UT grad is behind the The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Old Spice ads.
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The Holidays Aren't Over If the Fruitcake Still Lingers [Extra Extra]
Progress Coffee Hosts School Supply Drive Today
Over the past few years, Americans have learned that the easiest way to save the world is by drinking coffee. Every cup you drink helps break down trade barriers, jumpstart fledgling economies, and quash oppressive dictatorships worldwide. Against these overt claims of world-betterment, Austin is proud to bring you progress, via the nice people at Progress Coffee. What’s their plan to bring us salvation through coffee? Dry erase markers for Kealing Middle School!
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- Dude in North Dallas can’t be homecoming queen, because the high school won't let him run for the office.
- Head found in suitcase. Sadly, this is real life on the border, not a horror movie.
- Houston kids have Radio frequency identification tags in their school badges! It’s the same technology used to track cattle.
Rain, Rockstar Yumminess and Wrong-way Driving [Extra Extra]
- Some local students see President Obama’s stay-in-school message. Some don’t.
- “Ike Dike” proposed in Galveston. This Dike would extend Galveston’s seawall by 50 miles and create a job for a Little Dutch Boy who’d save the city in case of malfunction!
- Do you get your own page in the yearbook for this? Would you want one? A 14 year-old Dallas driver led cops on a wrong-way chase.
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