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Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa proposes to longtime girlfriend and former Miss Texas USA Daniella Rodriguez/credit USA Today video
Published on November 3, 2017
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From the Bottom to the Top: Houston Astros Are World Series Champions
The Houston Astros are the 2017 World Series Champions. Ok. For Houston Astros fans, I know you don’t believe what you just read, so I will say it again. The best team in baseball for 2017 is your Houston Astros. This is the same team that at one point during the regular season in 2013 had a 14-million-dollar payroll on the field. They were the running joke of Major League Baseball for losing more than 100 games for three straight seasons and were nicknamed the “Lastros” by some fans.
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Carlos Correa and José Altuve celebrate the World Series win/Houston Astros' Facebook
Published on November 3, 2017
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The MVP, George Springer, bringing the Commissioner’s Trophy home to Houston./Houston Astros' Facebook
Published on November 3, 2017
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True Scandal In Puerto Rican Recovery Effort Is Trump's Dereliction
The scandals around in Puerto Rico's agonies are far greater than the bizarre contract to pay Whitefish Energy, a tiny Montana company from U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown, $300 million to restore electric lines.
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Texas Southern University Included in Houston Astros Championship Parade
Texas Southern University’s championship baseball and softball teams and the University’s renowned Ocean of Soul marching band will be included in tomorrow’s Houston Astro championship parade.
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Celebrate World Series Champs Ride METRO for Free
Several Routes Detoured Friday for Parade
METRO is providing free rides Friday, Nov. 3 for all services to help ease traffic congestion in downtown Houston during the Houston Astros World Series Championship Parade. Fans are encouraged to use the buses and METRORail. There will be parking available along the rail corridor, Minute Maid Park Lot C and the NRG Stadium Orange Lot. Drivers should access the NRG lot from Kirby Drive. Standard parking rates will apply. For a link to the system map and to plan your trip visit www.ridemetro.org.
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Deshaun Watson Wins Pair of NFL Awards
The NFL named Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson the AFC Offensive Player of the Month and the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month for October. Watson is the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to win AFC Offensive Player of the Month and joins Barry Sanders (1989), Edgerrin James (1999), Mike Anderson (2000) and Kareem Hunt (2017) as the only rookies to win the award.
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Houston Astros Are 2017 World Series Champions
Astros win first World Series Championship in franchise history
With tonight’s Game 7 win over the LA Dodgers, the Houston Astros are World Series Champions for the first time in franchise history. Prior to this season, the Astros had gone 55 years without a World Series Championship and had appeared in only one other World Series (2005). The Astros defeated the LA Dodgers by a score of 5-1 tonight at Dodger Stadium.
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Houston Astros - 2017 World Series Champions - #EarnedHistory/credit Astros' Facebook
Published on November 2, 2017
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Former TSU Regent Selected to Serve as Interim Dean of Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Texas Southern University has announced that former Texas Southern University Regent Gary Bledsoe will assume the role of interim dean at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Bledsoe will lead the law school through its American Bar Association compliance requirements. Bledsoe will assume his new position November 1.
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Kroger Helps Refill Flooded Closets with Massive Donation of New Apparel
Kroger donates 112,873 items of new clothing, shoes and other items to the Houston Food Bank valued at $2.5M from stores across the country
Thousands of people lost their entire wardrobe when Hurricane Harvey flooded southeast Texas. A donation of brand-new clothing and shoes from Kroger with a retail value of $2.5 million will help families refill their closets. It’s estimated that as many as 100,000 homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged by the flooding in late August, representing a tremendous loss of property and personal possessions.
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Vehicles as Weapons: New York City Crash Is Part of A Deadly Trend
Once again, a driver has plowed into a crowd of innocent pedestrians, turning a car into a lethal weapon.
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Dodgers Force World Series Game 7 with 3-1 Win Against Astros
One of the most entertaining World Series of all time is going the distance. The Los Angeles Dodgers have forced a decisive Game 7, winning Game 6 at home 3-1 against the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.
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New Yorkers Defiant After Deadliest Terror Attack In the City Since 9/11
After a 29-year-old man drove a truck into a Manhattan crowd on Tuesday, killing eight and wounding almost a dozen in the deadliest terror attack to hit the city since 9/11, New Yorkers made it clear that they refused to be intimidated.
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Note Found in Truck Claims Manhattan Attack Done for ISIS, Source Says
Eight people were killed and almost a dozen injured when a 29-year-old man in a rented pickup truck drove down a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center Tuesday in Manhattan, New York City.
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Who is New York Attack Suspect Sayfullo Saipov?
The man accused of killing eight people in a truck attack in New York on Halloween is a native of Uzbekistan who moved to the United States in 2010, sources told CNN.
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How the New York City Truck Attack Unfolded
At least eight people were killed Tuesday in what New York officials are calling a terror attack. Here's what we know so far about what happened, per the New York Police Department.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google Defend Their Role in Election
Silicon Valley is settling in to get grilled by Washington. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google testified before Congress Tuesday in the first of three hearings this week into how foreign nationals used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
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'This Is Us' Star Justin Hartley Marries Chrishell Stause
Justin Hartley is officially off the market. Hartley, who plays Kevin Pearson on the hit NBC show, "This Is Us," married his longtime girlfriend, Chrishell Stause on Saturday.
