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A Girl Scout troop swimming at Huntsville State Park narrowly escaped an encounter with a roughly fourteen-foot alligator that they later nicknamed Karen. A Colleyville restaurant rolled out a $39 State Fair Bloody Mary that’s garnished with a turkey leg, a corn dog, a funnel cake, a caramel apple, grilled corn, celery, and bacon and comes with a beer the customer can drink while waiting fifteen minutes for the “cocktail” to be assembled. A burglar who apparently attempted to steal a laptop and a rosary from a Corpus Christi Catholic school left a note that read “Sorry, times are hard” and ended up leaving the laptop behind. When a Whitney High School linebacker bumped into an umpire during a game, the official yanked the player’s helmet…

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