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.
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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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Houston school under fire for broken defibrillator after student dies in gym class

The North Texas Fair and Rodeo, which opens Friday night in Denton, is adjusting its schedule due to the forecasted weekend temperatures reaching 100 degrees or higher.

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The North Texas Fair and Rodeo, which opens Friday night in Denton, is adjusting its schedule due to the forecasted weekend temperatures reaching 100 degrees or higher.
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T.I. receives $1.6B in federal funds for plants in Sherman

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