Jen Austin

This will be a big weekend on the roads, and police in East Texas and across the US are doing what they can to keep us all safe.  Don't forget to buckle up!  Friday will be the busiest travel day, but some folks are starting their vacations now and we can expect the roads to be packed all week.

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Are you into celebrity clothing lines at all?  It's not all about frilly things for girls.  Bono and Matthew McConaughey have their own clothing lines, and many guys say it's good stuff.

Matthew McConaghey spends a lot of time in Texas and went to school in Austin, and he's been known to get real laid back and play the bongos.  How can the clothing line not be cool.

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Good for you, you've graduated!  Now what?  You enter the real world with a great education and lots of enthusiasm...and mounds of debt!

We should have taken a poll of SFA grads last Saturday as they walked across the stage to get their diplomas.  It varies of course, but the average college graduate leaves school with $35,200 in debt.

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Today in Lufkin and Nacogdoches we have the chance of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms, but the situation doesn't appear to be anything like what North Texas saw last night.

As many as ten possible tornadoes ripped through areas west of Dallas-Fort Worth Wednesday night, and left 250 people homeless, 100 injured, and 6 dead.  Changes to those numbers could come today as emergency responders fully assess the damage.

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Men's Health Magazine ranks cities in the US and has come up with a list of the least and the most active.  One Texas city made the list of the laziest cities, because the activity level of guys is fairly low.
 
Can we blame the heat?  That encourages all of us to stay indoors and sit on the couch with a beer and some french fries.
 
Men's Health says the laziest cities, the capitols of sloth, those whose men would rather stay inside and eat chips and watch golf all day include: 

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Police think a car was trying to pull out of a Diboll parking lot and collided with another car on North Temple Drive, then one of the cars spun out into the path of an oncoming 18-Wheeler.  

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If you see an online profile that says something like, "Rich Algerian Prince with a PhD seeks quality relationship with a good Catholic," be leary!

And know that words like "hot" and "bombshell" are sometimes used by people of varying degrees of actual hotness.  People who post ads have been known to exaggerate the truth a tad.

One in ten online dating profiles is fake, and many of them contain key trigger words.  What are they?

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Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesA real estate company put out a blog naming the most redneck cities in America, and Texas has two in the top ten. 

We tend to think of redneck cities being here in the south, but there are some northern metro areas that made the list.

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Maybe you've been at a baseball or basketball game where they get that Kiss Cam going, and force couples to kiss when they're show on the screen. Aw how nice, so cute, all those lovey dovey couples.

But what happens when a guy is too busy with his cell phone conversation to kiss his enthusiastic lady friend? The crowd support the girl with whatever revenge she decides to seek

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Chances are, you know someone who has benefited from the NICU - that's Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit.

I have two friends in Dallas who gave birth to baby boys that needed a little extra help getting started in life.  One spent a month in the NICU, and one spent nine days there.  Both are doing just fine now!  One is 7 now and the other just turned 2.  They started out their lives hooked up to tubes and on respirators, and they're just as happy and healthy as every other kid now.

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State police say the driver of the car that collided with an 18-Wheeler Saturday night had been drinking.

Three Stephen F. Austin students were killed in the accident, and one was injured.  Blood test results are still pending, but police think the driver, 19-year old Kevin Garcia, was under the influence of alcohol when he attempted a u-turn from the shoulder of the road, and entered the path of an oncoming 18-wheeler.

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I always do my best to keep you updated on what's happening in the world of beer, and today I found a nice little nugget that might help keep you happy at your outdoor barbecues this summer.

What's the best way exactly, to keep that beer cold?  It may not matter so much with subsequent beers, but the first and second ones sure do taste best if they're ice cold. So what's the secret?

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