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Texas daycare owner gets 80 years for fire death of toddler

Jessica Tata

The owner of a Houston daycare center where four toddlers died in a fire that started after she left the children unattended to go shopping was sentenced on Tuesday to 80 years in prison for a felony murder conviction in one of the deaths.

 

'Horses on fire': Texas fights wind-blown blazes

'Horses on fire': Texas fights wind-blown blazes

Out-of-control wildfires in Texas have scorched nearly 400 square miles and destroyed dozens of homes as hot, windy conditions fuel the blazes. One fast-moving wildfire in West Texas had spread to more than 60,000 acres Sunday in Jeff Davis County and destroyed about 40 homes in Fort Davis before it raged north and east.

 

Wind-whipped Texas wildfires kill one, burn 110,000 acres

Wind-driven wildfires destroyed nearly 70 homes and burned more than 110,000 acres in West Texas, and gusty conditions threatened to wreak further ...

 

2 arrests in string of Texas church fires

Two arrests have been made in a string of deliberately set church fires in east Texas, a fire official said Sunday.

 

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