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Kaufman County district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot dead in their home on Blarney Stone Way in Forney, Texas, on March 30th, 2013. Their shooting came almost two months after Assistant DA Mark Hasse was fatally gunned down on January 31st as he walked to the courthouse on East Grove Street in Kaufman, Texas. A Read more...
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Mickey Mantle is interred in the Mantle family mausoleum at Sparkman/Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The American former professional baseball player for the New York Yankees died, aged 63, on August 13th, 1995, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He received a liver transplant two months earlier after cancer was found in his own liver, already damaged Read more...
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The city of Houston, Texas, is named after Sam Houston, an American general and statesman who became the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1837, after the territory’s declaration of independence from Mexico. In 1836, brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen purchased the land to establish the townsite that became Houston, naming it after General Houston, Read more...
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, was previously called Houston Intercontinental Airport from 1969 until 1997. It was renamed in honor of George H W Bush, the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and also a member of the US House of Representatives representing Texas’s 7th congressional district. He and his wife, Barbara, settled in Read more...
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The corporate headquarters of upscale organic food supermarket Whole Foods Market, Inc are located at Bowie Street and West 6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Based at the site since 2005, Whole Foods expanded its Austin corporate campus in 2021 with the construction of a second office building across the street. In addition to housing the company’s global support offices, Read more...