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BEXAR COUNTY, Texas (Gray News) – Police in Texas arrested a 23-year-old woman for allegedly burning down the house of her boyfriend. Senaida Soto was charged with one count of burglary and one count of arson. Texas firefighters responded to a home in Bexar County early Sunday morning after the owner said Soto had broken into the home and set it on fire. She also reportedly stole some items from the house. In a Facebook post, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said Soto was in a romantic relationship with a family member of the homeowner. Officials said Soto had FaceTimed...

Demolition crews on Friday burned down a luxury house that had been left dangling 75 feet (23 meters) above a lake when a decaying cliff gave out underneath the abandoned structure. After a planned burn where crews set fuel-soaked bales of hay at strategic points throughout the house, most of the structure was reduced to ashes or plunged to the lake's coast within an hour of the fire being lit. TV news helicopters circled over the house, that once had an estimated value of $800,000, for live broadcasts of the blaze, which took place on Lake Whitney, about 75 miles...

School plans to layoff 25 faculty and staff members The University of the District of Columbia is asking the city for $4 million to pay for the severance packages of dozens of professors and staff members it wants to lay off. UDC plans to lay off 25 faculty and staff members, and eliminate seven departments and two dozen majors. School officials say it's expensive to eliminate positions because of a strong union presence. The school already eliminated 30 positions. A university spokesperson said the school expects the city to pay for the severance packages because the city ordered UDC to...

Update on effort to suppress "Burning Down the House" Video "Burning Down the House: What Caused our Financial Crisis" is a video the Obama campaign does not want you to see. The first YouTube posting of this video received over one million hits in less than five days. It was removed by YouTube after a copyright complaint by Warner Music. The second posting of this video has also now been removed from YouTube after receiving 100,000+ plays in one day! Aother version of the video, created by the same YouTube account holder, pointed out that the Obama campaign received nearly...

House Committee Hearing on 'Warming of the Planet' Canceled Because of Snow/Ice Storm

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