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Indulge Your Inner Know-It-All: Labor Day Edition
Labor Day Facts to Make You the Resident Smarty Pants at Your Weekend BBQ By Maude Standish Just because Labor Day is known unofficially by vast segments of the population as “The...
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Have An Endless Summer
Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Farmer’s Market Eats To Make Summer Last By Maude Standish Despite loving three-day weekends, Labor Day always feels a bit like getting stabbed in the back by a...
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Summer vs. Fall: The Pros And Cons Of Changing Seasons
By Dan Morgridge Labor Day comes at an interesting time of year. Caught between two seasons, we’re left picking sides: do we try to Hold On To Summer or Embrace Fall. Traditionally, you’d have a hard...
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2.2 Million Texans Expected To Travel For Labor Day
HOUSTON (AP) – An industry group has predicted that more than 2.2 million Texans will hit the road this Labor Day weekend and travel 50 miles or more. AAA Texas on Tuesday reported nearly 1.9 million...
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Grapevine Seeing Large Numbers Of Dead Fish At Lake
Thousands of dead fish showed up in Lake Grapevine the weekend prior to Labor Day. GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW.COM) – Just days before Labor Day weekend Lake Grapevine has had a massive fish kill. Thousands of...
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Texas DPS Troopers Ready For Labor Day Weekend
AUSTIN (AP) – All available Texas troopers have been assigned Labor Day holiday weekend duty looking for speeders, drunken drivers and other traffic violators. The Department of Public Safety says...
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Texas Gas Prices Inch Up 1 Cent Before Labor Day
HOUSTON (AP) – Retail gasoline prices in Texas have inched up a penny at the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend. AAA Texas on Thursday reported its survey found the price at the gas pump averaged...
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Access Gasoline Information On Your Smartphone
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – This is a big weekend for travelers. Many people across North Texas will hit the road and get out of town on Friday for Labor Day. And with that in mind, drivers are surely...
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Gulf Braces For Rain From Tropical Storm Lee
MIAMI (AP) – Tropical Storm Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana on Friday, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast over the Labor Day weekend with up to 20 inches of rain in some spots....
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Temperatures In The 80s Across North Texas
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – It was a one-two punch over the weekend, as Tropical Storm Lee and a strong cold front brought high winds and much drier air to North Texas. Emergency crews labored to fight...
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Rest Stop In Burleson Includes Lesson In Patriotism
BURLESON (CBSDFW.COM) – A lot of people have hit the highways for this labor day weekend. And along the way they’ve made some rest stops. But when they pull into the rest stop along I-35W in south...
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White After Labor Day? Why Not?
(credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) –Fashionistas have September 8, marked on their calendars for the annual Fashion’s Night Out. That’s when retailers stay open extra...
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Texas Wildfires Could Hit $250 Million In Insured Losses
AUSTIN (AP) – An industry group says insured losses from a week of Texas wildfires could reach $250 million. The Insurance Council of Texas on Monday offered the estimate for more than 180 wildfires...
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Central Texas Wildfires Now 75 Percent Contained
BASTROP (AP) – Firefighters have contained 75 percent of the wildfires that have scorched a Central Texas county since Labor Day weekend. The Texas Forest Service on Thursday said more than 34,000...
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Central Texas Wildfires Nearly Contained
BASTROP (AP) – The Texas Forest Service says wildfires that began more than two weeks ago in Bastrop County have been 95 percent contained. Officials say weekend rain and cooler temperatures...
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Wildfires Reveal A Small Texas Town’s Resilience
BASTROP (AP) – Elizabeth Tipton and her family have been living in a hotel since the Labor Day fires took their home in the ColoVista subdivision. In a few weeks, when their federal temporary housing...
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Possum Kingdom Fire: One Year Later
GRAHAM (CBSDFW.COM) – One year after fires burned in Possum Kingdom Lake you will still find charred wood, piles of debris, empty slabs that used to hold homes. But that is up close. Business owners,...
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AAA Texas Makes Labor Day Travel Prediction
IRVING (AP) – A travel group predicts 2.4 million Texans will leave home for Labor Day weekend in spite of potential weather threats by Hurricane Isaac. AAA Texas offered its holiday weekend forecast...
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Six Flags Announces New Swing Ride
A rendition of the Texas SkyScreamer ride coming to Six Flags Over Texas in 2013. (credit: Six Flags Over Texas) ARLINGTON (AP) – Six Flags Over Texas has announced plans for a 400-foot tall swing...
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Extreme Heat Back In DFW For Labor Day
After a stretch of cooler temperatures, North Texas will return to the triple digits over the Labor Day weekend, for one last summertime hurrah.
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