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Paying taxes isn't any fun, we know, but still—you really shouldn't threaten to kill the IRS agent who's asking about the money you owe Uncle Sam.

The 31-year old woman posing as a high school sophomore in East Texas fooled many people besides just her classmates. Charity Stevens (also known as Charity Johnson) was arrested a week ago for failing to provide identification to Longview Police.  It turns out, she had been posing as a student at New Life Christian School in Longview since last fall, and not even her friends or adoptive family kn

New York City no longer has the least courteous drivers in the country.  The "least courteous" title now belongs to a city in Texas. I bet you've been there!

Mick Jagger sang the Bob Dylan classic at a memorial service for his girlfriend, who died on March 17.

Our friends over by Houston have made the news again. Would you ever jog naked through your neighborhood?  That got a guy handcuffed this week.

A sophomore at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, attacked his fellow students Wednesday morning, injuring at least 20 people, four of them seriously. He is now in police custody.

NASA is letting us vote on new space suits! It seems like the NASA engineers might know more than we would about what space suits would be best for the astronauts, but we can have input nonetheless. Between now and April 15th, we can vote online on the new space suit designs.

Before anyone knew that Super Bowl XLVIII would turn out to be a flop on the field, the big event kicked off with a great rendition of the national anthem combined with a flyover of US Army helicopters over MetLife Stadium.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, a towering icon of modern cinema, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment today according to the Wall Street Journal and New York Post. He was 46 years old.

The energy industry continues to grow, and Texas may be benefiting from the oil and natural gas boom. But as USA Today points out, all of the growth and success doesn't come without a few headaches.

28-year old Alfred Wright went missing in Sabine County in November, and his body was found there about three weeks later. His family wonders whether it may be a cover-up. In case you missed it last night on CNN's AC 360, we've posted the segment here, about the death of an East Texas man...

What they got, you gotta give it to your mama . . . and you can do it during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLVIII, when the Red Hot Chili Peppers take the stage for one of their first live performances of 2014.