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A sickening story today from the New York Post about rich mothers from Manhattan who hired disabled people to pose as family members so that their family would be moved to the front of the line for rides and attractions at Disney World.

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The Smith County Office of Emergency Management and local volunteer fire departments are set to conduct a full-scale emergency drill on Saturday, May 18th from 7am to 2pm.

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For the sixth time since 2010, Brookshire Grocery Company will send a group of World War II veterans to Washington, DC. to see the WWII memorial. The memorial was constructed in 2004 and may of the veterans are now in their 80's and 90's. Most of them would never have the opportunity to make the trip to see the memorial without the help of Brookshire's "Heroes Flights" program.

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Whoever thought this was a good idea is definitely out of touch with the was society feels is acceptable - given the recent shootings in places like Aurora, Colorado. A Missouri movie theater planned a publicity stunt for "Iron Man 3" where a man entered the theater with a team dressed in tactical gear and armed with fake guns!

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Weird and exciting news out of Australia about a man who was brought back to life after being clinically dead for 40 minutes back in June of last year. I'm not sure why we are just finding out about this story - or why the big news of this obvious life-saving machine have not been made more public before now.

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The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens is set to celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week on June 1 by offering free fishing for the whole family and even free admission for kids 12 and under!

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Meet Commander Chris Hadfield. His Youtube video is making him an overnight sensation - racking up over a million and a half views so far since Sunday (5/12)! Commander Hadfield is set to turn over control of the ISS to a fellow astronaut, but before he left, he decided to make this music video.

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Meet John Bledsoe - he's about to have his five minutes of fame on the internet - and he's also got the accomplishment of having thrown out the worst first pitch at at baseball game - EVER! This video was just posted Wednesday (5/8) and already have over 20,000 views.

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The nation's largest one-day food drive is happening this Saturday, May 11th. The annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive is the second Saturday in May each year and is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers. In 2012 Americans donated 70.5 million pounds of food. Of that, nearly 78,000 pounds was collected right here in East Texas!

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NBC announced yesterday (5/7) that country singer Carrie Underwood would take over singing the opening theme for "Sunday Night Football" from fellow country star Faith Hill.

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For being a listener of 96X you are receiving access to a limited time deal for the Bud Light River City Rockfest! This inaugural festival features multiple stages, over a dozen bands, 12 hours of music, plus features headliners Guns N’ Roses and Alice in Chains!

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In April I posted the story about the East Texas Food Bank and their quest to win Walmart's "Fighting Hunger Together" campaign. Yesterday we received word from officials at the food bank that they were one of 100 organizations selected to receive part of $3 million in grants to fight hunger. The East Texas Food Bank's part of the grant totals $45,000!

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