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The economy’s rate of economic growth was revised up Wednesday to the fastest pace in three years, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Gross domestic product grew at a 3.3 percent annualized rate in the July through September period, an increase from the previous estimate of three percent. The increase means economic growth was stronger in the third quarter than previously believed despite the damage done by hurricanes Harvey and Irma The revision also shows that the economy has been growing at a rate closer to what President Donald Trump said he would achieve than what many economic forecasters thought was...

Reports to our own Bob Lonsberry, and other media outlets, say a tractor trailer was shot at on 390 South Near Buffalo Road. Last week a vehicle was reported as shot in the same area. Read more: http://www.wham1180.com/articles/local-news-122742/breaking-reports-of-tractor-trailer-shot-12308244/#ixzz30TsLisrU

I probably should have just listened to Paul Harvey. Though it wasn’t actually Paul Harvey. It was Ron Chapman. And that’s probably the problem. I understand Ron Chapman is a radio legend somewhere, but I don’t live there. So, to me, he’s just an insufferable bore. But I should have been listening anyway. Instead I got an idea. An idea that had been kind of simmering in my head for a week or so. I was trying to think of a way to show that I wasn’t happy. That I was tired of bailouts. That I didn’t want to pay...

Breaking in DFW, Texas Rangers Pitcher Kenny Rodgers attacks Fox Reporter and others. Did anyone in the DFW area just see it on the news? Reporters have the right to be on the field.. He totally lost his cool. One reporter left on a stretcher. Charges will be filed.

British Broadcasting Corp. on Friday said shots of George Michael's backing musicians wearing anti-war T-shirts will likely be cut from a television show. Michael performed a cover of Don McLean's anti-war song "The Grave" on BBC's music show "Top of the Pops" on Thursday. His cellists wore T-shirts with the logo "No war, Blair out" - referring to Prime Minister Tony Blair. A BBC official said shots of the cellists' T-shirts violate the broadcaster's policy of impartiality and suggested they would probably be edited out of the show when it is aired Friday. "We have to conform to BBC policy...