BETSY BLANEY

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No. 22 Kansas St beats struggling Texas Tech 69-47

Martavious Irving scored 16 points and Rodney McGruder had 13 to lead No. 22 Kansas State over Texas Tech 69-47 on Wednesday night, keeping the Red Raiders winless in Big 12 play.

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No. 17 Lady Raiders fall 72-64 to No. 1 Baylor

Texas Tech used a different offensive tactic in its 72-64 loss to No. 1 Baylor.

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No. 1 Baylor women beat No. 17 Texas Tech 72-64

Brittney Griner scored 21 points to lead No. 1 Baylor over Texas Tech 72-64 on Wednesday.

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Kansas St. upends No. 10 Texas Tech 62-61

Kansas State coach Deb Patterson knew she was stretching her starters but the decision to stay with them paid off.

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No. 10 Kansas overwhelms Texas Tech 81-46

Thomas Robinson had 19 points and 12 rebounds to lead No. 10 Kansas over Texas Tech 81-46 on Wednesday night.

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Unbeaten No. 4 Baylor upends Texas Tech 73-60

Pierre Jackson scored 19 points and No. 4 Baylor beat Texas Tech 73-60 on Saturday.

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Texas drought takes cow numbers down by 600K

The worst drought in Texas' history has led to the largest-ever one-year decline in the leading cattle-state's cow herd, raising the likelihood of increased beef prices as the number of animals decline and demand remains strong.

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Editor who won Pulitzer for Estes scandal dies

Oscar Griffin Jr., whose investigation of swindler Billie Sol Estes won a 1963 Pulitzer Prize for the small Texas newspaper where he worked, has died. He was 78.

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No. 2 Oklahoma St crushes Texas Tech 66-6

Brandon Weeden threw for 423 yards and five touchdowns and Joseph Randle ran for three more scores to lead No. 2 Oklahoma State over Texas Tech 66-6 Saturday, making the Cowboys 10-0 for the first time in school history.

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Adam James wrapping tumultuous career at TTech

The nasty voicemails and emails don't weigh on Adam James anymore. And he doesn't care if people view him as a pariah, the guy who brought an end to the high-flying Mike Leach era at Texas Tech.

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Texas doctor pleads guilty in retaliation case

A doctor who pleaded guilty Monday to retaliating against two nurses who reported him to state medical regulators will spend two months in jail and be on probation for five years.

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Iowa St. upends No. 19 Texas Tech 41-7

Redshirt freshman Jared Barnett threw for a touchdown and ran for another, and Iowa State shocked No. 19 Texas Tech 41-7 on Saturday night, a week after the Red Raiders won at Oklahoma.

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US's biggest nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas

The last of the nation's biggest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was dismantled Tuesday in what one energy official called a milestone in President Barack Obama's mission to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

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US's biggest nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas

The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs has been taken apart in Texas.

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US's most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled

The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

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More dust storms expected as Texas drought lingers

The towering wall of billowing red dust roaring across the blue West Texas sky took Monroe Debusk back more than eight decades to the Dust Bowl years when he was growing up on his family's cotton farm.

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No. 17 Kansas St comes back to beat Tex Tech 41-34

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder is working on another Miracle in Manhattan, one small stroke at a time.

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No. 24 Texas A&M beat Texas Tech 45-40

Ryan Tannehill ran for two touchdowns and threw for another to lead No. 24 Texas A&M over Texas Tech 45-40 on Saturday night.

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Rare minnows rescued from Texas river amid drought

Wading through a muddy river bed to reach shallow pools of water, wildlife biologists scooped up hundreds of minnows Friday in one of the first rescues of fish threatened by the state's worst drought in decades.

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Texas has hottest June-August, tops Oklahoma

It's been a year of superlatives for Texas: worst single-year drought, largest agricultural losses and most destructive wildfires — blazes that have damaged millions of acres and more than a thousand homes.

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Texas drought could threaten endangered species

Federal officials are readying plans to evacuate a small number of endangered species in Texas as a severe drought lowers water levels and threatens the survival of rare wildlife in the state's huge ecosystem.

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Texas ag losses forecast at record $5.2 billion

Texas cattle producers could take several years to fully recover from the drought blistering the state, which agriculture officials estimated Wednesday has caused a record $5.2 billion in livestock and crop losses since last fall.

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Texas ag losses forecast at record $5.2 billion

Texas agriculture officials say the blistering drought in the state has caused an estimated $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses this agricultural season — a record figure that could still rise.

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Drought forces Texas, Okla. ranchers to cut herds

Cattle ranchers in drought-plagued Texas and Oklahoma — the nation's top two beef producers — are selling off their cows because they don't have the pastures to sustain them.

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Perry: Obama debt ceiling speech was condescending

Texas Gov. Rick Perry slammed President Barack Obama's speech on the debt ceiling debate as condescending on Tuesday, saying he heard the president tell Americans they "just wouldn't understand" the issue.

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