More than 70 US Congress members signed a letter to the US Postal Service - calling for better heat safety measures. This comes more than a year after a North Texas man collapsed while delivering mail in the extreme heat...

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More than 70 US Congress members signed a letter to the US Postal Service - calling for better heat safety measures. This comes more than a year after a North Texas man collapsed while delivering mail in the extreme heat...
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Congress members demand better heat safety measures for US Postal Service workers

Texas Instruments will receive $1.6 billion in federal funds to help with semiconductor plants being built in Sherman. The announcement comes on the heels of $400 million in federal funding for Global Wafers -- also in Sherman. So what's making the North Texas city so attractive to tech companies? Sherman Economic Development Corporation CEO Kent Sharp joined Mike Rogers and Austin York to explain.

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Texas Instruments will receive $1.6 billion in federal funds to help with semiconductor plants being built in Sherman. The announcement comes on the heels of $400 million in federal funding for Global Wafers -- also in Sherman. So what's making the North Texas city so attractive to tech companies? Sherman Economic Development Corporation CEO Kent Sharp joined Mike Rogers and Austin York to explain.
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T.I. receives $1.6B in federal funds for plants in Sherman

Student-athletes across Texas have started practice for fall sports, but this weekend, much of the state will still be under triple-digit heat. The National Weather Service has an excessive heat warning covering North and East Texas, including Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton Counties; a heat advisory stretches from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast.

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Student-athletes across Texas have started practice for fall sports, but this weekend, much of the state will still be under triple-digit heat. The National Weather Service has an excessive heat warning covering North and East Texas, including Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton Counties; a heat advisory stretches from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast.
Photo: Alan Scaia

Texas high schools adjust athletics for summer heat

Questions are being raised about medical equipment in a Houston school where a boy collapsed this week. In Houston, an 8th grader died this week after collapsing during a gym class. Houston Federation of Teachers president Jackie Anderson says she's been told the defibrillator at the school wasn't working at the time

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Questions are being raised about medical equipment in a Houston school where a boy collapsed this week. In Houston, an 8th grader died this week after collapsing during a gym class. Houston Federation of Teachers president Jackie Anderson says she's been told the defibrillator at the school wasn't working at the time
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Congress members demand better heat safety measures for US Postal Service workers

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