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Here’s what could possibly be the best typo to ever run in a major newspaper:

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In the coming years we may see more female CEOs in Tyler and Longview, and more women leaders of schools and organizations in East Texas. If nothing else, this will give you something to argue about with your co-workers today at work.

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They are two types of belly flops — The first comes courtesy of a daredevil with a masochistic streak who deliberately falls into the water gut first. The second happens when somebody just isn’t very good at diving into a pool.

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First, Jimmy Kimmel had parents prank their children by telling them they ate all of their Halloween candy. Then he had parents give kids a terrible Christmas present and record their reactions. Now Kimmel has decided to do the pranking himself.

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As any animal lover knows, dogs are capable of feeling intense joy. (If cats feel it, by contrast, they sure don’t seem to show it.) As proof, check out this video of an Irish Terrier that literally leaps for joy after it finds its owner hiding nearby.

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These athletes are serious! Check out the video for the recent wife-carrying contest, won for the 4th time by a couple from Finland.

It got me thinking, what if we organized a similar event in Tyler? Husbands, are you strong enough to pile your wives on your shoulders and carry her over hurdles and through water without dumping her and without falling down?

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Outer space is fascinating. Mars, specifically, has long been the subject of debate and fascination ever since our focus turned from our own moon to the red planet. The Fourth of July on Wednesday marked NASA’s 15th anniversary of exploration of the planet. And a rover recently produced a panoramic image of Mars that is just mind-blowing.

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It's happened to us all at work at some point or another, that lunch you brought in and placed in the office refrigerator somehow disappears by the time you go to enjoy it.  That's happened to me quite a few times here at the radio station but hasn't happened in a couple of years though thankfully.  One guy, at an unnamed company, was tired of his fruit being robbed from his desk, so he took matters into his own hands to find the culprit.

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East Texas received its fair share of extreme heat last year and we're still feeling it now, but other parts of the country are feeling the extreme heat this 4th of July very much like we did.  Temperatures are around the century mark in Wisconsin and all that heat is taking a toll on their roads and interstates and you won't believe what happens when an unaware driver comes up on a buckled section of the highway.

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Fireworks may have originally been a product of China, but there is nothing more American than setting these babies on fire for July 4th. Alcohol also happens to be a big part of our Independence Day traditions, and when booze is combined with firecrackers things can get pretty messy.

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The world famous Cyclone roller coaster on New York’s Coney Island turned 85 years old on Saturday (6/30). To celebrate, the usual $8 ticket price was rolled back to just 25 cents – the price it cost to ride when it made it’s first run in 1927!

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Like you, I get a lot of junk in my email. Most of it goes straight to the trash, but the headline on one of them I received yesterday caught my attention. It was about foods that help relieve the pain of a sunburn. I don’t know that there is anything much worse than a really bad sunburn — you know, the kind where it hurts to move! Here are three of the foods from the list that I was really surprised by …

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