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At the end of the first quarter of Texas Tech’s Battle for the Saddle game against Texas Christian University, a possum ran across the artificial turf before being dragged off and safely released, though only after receiving a calming stroke along its back courtesy of Tech president Lawrence Schovanec. Tomball’s police and fire departments were called in when two bald eagles in a family’s front yard were unable to fly away because their talons got tangled while they were fighting over a scrap of food. A motorcyclist in Lufkin was involved in a collision with an eighteen-wheeler and survived punctured lungs and multiple broken bones—mere minutesafter he’d saved the life of a man having a seizure in a Cracker Barrel. During the American League Championship…
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