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Texas is known for what? Here are 25 things Texans love about themselves

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

DALLAS (KDAF) — Texans love themselves, but why? Do they love the cowboy boots, the Texan accent, or is it something else?Texas is known for its legendary cowboy culture, its large cities, its diverse landscapes, its delicious Tex-Mex cuisine, and its strong southern hospitality.It is also famous for its cattle and oil industry, its rodeos, its music, and its unique Texan culture. An animal information website, A-Z Animals, listed 25 things Texans love about themselves.A-Z animals said, "The food, history, wildlife, and culture are so unique that the state is renowned throughout the world". The top 25 things Texans love about themselves: Texas is known for its size above all elsePersonal Freedoms and IndependenceTexas is also for Hot foodsNASA Trains and Launches Astronauts from HoustonMassive RanchesThe AlamoCountry Music State Fairs Embracing Guns Rattlesnakes Abound Drilling for OilThe State has a profound love of footballAutomobile ManufacturingBarbeque FoodCowboys Blazing Hot W...

Police: Teen allegedly tries to hire hitman to kill 7-year-old

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

STORM LAKE, Iowa (KCAU) -- A 17-year-old is facing a felony charge after officials said she allegedly attempted to order a hit on a 7-year-old. According to a release from the Storm Lake Police Department, officials were contacted Friday for a report at midnight of someone visiting a parody website called "rentahitman.com" with the intention to hire someone to kill a young child. The webmaster of the website told officials the person had allegedly visited the website two times and provided the child's private information including their name and location. The release stated an investigation was launched immediately and officials were able to identify the child and a possible suspect. An officer went undercover and posed as a hitman while making contact with the suspect. The officer was able to confirm that their potential suspect allegedly wanted their target killed. The 17-year-old suspect was taken into custody Friday afternoon and further interviews were conducted. Officials were...

State Fair of Texas performance lineup released — see whose playing

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

DALLAS (KDAF) — The State Fair of Texas has released its 2023 performance lineup. Get ready for 24 days of music, essentially giving Texans the choice to create their own Texas music festival lineup."Only in the Lone Star State can these many Texan musical artists be experienced in one place! No matter the genre, the State Fair of Texas has something for you and it’s all FREE with your admission ticket," the State Fair of Texas said. According to the fair, there would be multiple stages located throughout the grounds filled with live music every day.Acts include Chrisette Michelle, Lil Jon and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Get your tickets for the state fair here.@StateFairOfTX

In upcoming gallery show, artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez explores ‘the pursuit of getting there’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

Tattoos of plants are visible under Fidencio Fifield-Perez’s shirt sleeve and shorts.Potted monsteras and other leafy houseplants sit on tables and shelves in the painter and paper artist’s studio, tucked deep inside a University of Minnesota building in the Como neighborhood. Some of his intricate two-tone paper weavings hanging on the walls depict plants, too.Artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez poses for a portrait in 2018. Fifield-Perez, who was born in Mexico, is currently the Dr. Harold R. Adams Artist-in-Residence Fellow in the University of Minnesota’s art department. (Photo courtesy Fidencio Fifield-Perez)Right now, he’s finishing up an incredibly photorealistic painting of a bunch of plants lovingly stuffed into the back of a U-Haul, ready to move cross-country. It’s on a massive square canvas, probably almost as tall as he is.His work is about immigration, movement, the labor of both doing and waiting. And visually, plants are the main characters. They’re “the placeholder for a ...

Walker West Music Academy closing in on $12 million relocation, expansion in St. Paul

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

The first time Grant West heard Carl Walker improvise on a church piano, he almost thought he’d met a long-lost twin.“I felt like I’d known him for a very long time,” said West, 76, who would go on to co-found a Selby Avenue music school bearing both their names. “Every now and then, I would hear somebody play, and I’d say, ‘That must be one of Carl Walker’s students,’ and it was. You could tell who was studying with him. He left his fingerprints.”Walker, who had once won a college scholarship by playing “Clair de Lune” at an Illinois gospel convention, was equally impressed. “We started out as good musical friends, and have been that ever since day one,” said the 85-year-old reverend, who keeps busy in retirement raising four of his great-grandchildren.On a winter’s day in early 1988, with the two church musicians eager to move beyond hosting lessons in their living rooms, the Walker West Musi...

Janae Edmondson set to have another surgery Monday

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

ST. LOUIS - The Tennessee teen who almost died after being struck by a car in downtown St. Louis is scheduled to have another surgery this week.Back in February, doctors amputated both of Jane Edmondson's legs after a driver hit her. Edmondson was in town for a volleyball tournament. Janae Edmondson set to have another surgery Monday Her mom says she's having another surgery Monday, and it's another step toward getting her prosthetics.Monday is also Janae's 18th birthday. There's a GoFundMe page set up for the teen that's raised over $815,000.

Man found dead in north St. Louis City, police investigating

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

ST. LOUIS - City police are investigating after a man was found dead in north St. Louis.Investigators were called out to the North Pointe neighborhood just before 1:00 a.m, where a man's body was found on Northcrest Lane Off Veronica Avenue. Vandals damage LGBTQ door display at south St. Louis County church Further information is currently unknown, but homicide detectives are handling the case. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

NBA Finals roundtable: Did Michael Jordan ever have better playoff run than what Nikola Jokic’s doing in 2023?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

Mark Kiszla: I’m not very good with numbers. Heck, I couldn’t remember the four-digit entry code to Team Post’s abode in South Florida without a cheat sheet. But I saw this stat from a hoops number-cruncher with a sense of history: Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is the first player in NBA history to produce 500 points, 250 rebounds and 150 assists in a single postseason. Sounds pretty, pretty good to me. Was Michael Jordan ever more dominant in the playoffs than the Joker we’re watching now? Has LeBron James or any other legend of the game ever done more for his team in the pursuit of a ring? Put it in historical perspective and explain it to me like I’m a 7-year-old child.Mike Singer: Nikola Jokic is an unsolvable riddle capable of flummoxing even the NBA’s best coaches. Double-team him, and he’ll slice the defense with darts. Single-cover him and he’ll bully the defender like a bear. From 3-point range, he’s devastating. His touch...

Drew Sanders could grow into Vance Joseph’s next versatile weapon: “I think Denver got a steal”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

Drew Sanders’ road to the NFL isn’t quite a Johnny Cash song, but suffice it to say he’s been almost everywhere, man.He attended middle school in Oregon, then three Texas high schools in four years as his dad, a coach, got hired at Lake Dallas one year, Colleyville Heritage the next and then Denton Ryan. Then Sanders went to college, where he spent two years at Alabama and one at Arkansas.Seven years, six schools, four states, just as many alignments on the football field.Quarterback? He did that in high school. Tight end, too. Outside linebacker, inside linebacker, pass-rusher, cover man, Hackensack, Fond du Lac. He’s played pretty much everywhere, man.So while getting up to speed in the NFL as a third-round draft pick of the Broncos is undoubtedly a big move, learning and getting comfortable on the fly is nothing new for the 6-foot-5, 233-pounder.“It’s all kind of going by pretty fast,” Sanders allowed last month at Denver’s rookie minicamp. “A lot of stuff happening and a lot of ...

Keeler: Blind Nuggets fans see what Kendrick Perkins, Stephen A. Smith can’t. Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray destined to be NBA champions. “Watch. Just watch.”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:30 GMT

MIAMI — Blind men shake their heads and wonder what the heck Kendrick Perkins and Stephen A. Smith are looking at. Chris Tucker? Forest Whitaker? Shakira? Because it sure ain’t the Nuggets.“I just heard that Perkins is still doubling down on, ‘Miami’s gonna win this series,’” Lakewood’s Paul Sandoval told me with a laugh before Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Nuggets and Heat.“It’s just like, ‘Why? What are you doing?’ I don’t think these national guys watch these games.”Exhibit B: Stephen A. hopped onto ESPN Thursday morning, fresh off Game 3 of the Finals, and decreed that two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic “isn’t known for having some kind of dominant post game now. That’s not his game.”After which his three co-hosts looked at him, justifiably, as if he’d just broken wind at the Vatican.“We’re kinda used to that,” Sandoval said. “We still get some of that small town treatment, but we’re not a small town. We get some of that from the coasts. A championship in the NBA will go a lon...