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Missing camper’s body found at bottom of cliff
AUSTIN (AP) — Searchers found the body of a missing camper in Lake Travis on Thursday after she apparently fell off a cliff near her family’s campsite in Pace Bend Park.
Agents visit Davidian site 15 years after botched raid
WACO, Texas (AP) — About a dozen federal agents visited the former Branch Davidian compound site Thursday, 15 years after a botched raid began an armed standoff with authorities and didn’t end until a deadly inferno 51 days later
Teen accused of providing fatal dose of cheese heroin is indicted
ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — A Rockwall County grand jury indicted a 19-year-old man on charge of criminally negligent homicide, accusing the teenager of providing a 16-year-old girl with a fatal dose of ‘‘cheese’’ heroin.
TYC to close Sheffield Boot Camp near Iraan
IRAAN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Youth Commission conservator told workers at the Sheffield Boot Camp on Thursday that the youth prison will be closed.
Fire danger high in parts of Texas
ARCHER CITY, Texas (AP) — With winds up to 35 mph and low humidity, fire danger was high across much of Texas and one city was prepared to evacuate.
Texas woman accused of killing 3-year-old daughter
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman faces a capital murder charge in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who had a skull fracture and massive internal bleeding, police said.
Nonprofit seeks fake flipper for endangered sea turtle in Texas
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival.
Small towns,tall pines of East Texas sometimes hide fugitives
FRANKSTON, Texas (AP) — Living near the dense pine woods where some believe Bigfoot still covertly skulks, escaped convict Deborah Ann Gavin Murphey perhaps thought she, too, wouldn’t be found.
Baptists elect woman
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The nation’s largest Baptist convention has elected its first female president.

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