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Where Not To Hide Your Crack Cocaine. There are many places you should not hide your crack cocaine. Like, Bobby Brown’s beer fridge. Or in the bottom of a tub of pistachio pudding, for obvious reasons. But the worst place of all? On your living room table, so that your kid takes it to school. I’m allegedly lookin’ at you, Joshua Ruiz.

Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise in Texas. For a time, vaccines all but eradicated the instances of pertussis to a handful. Now, as with Washington and California, Texas is reporting an uptick in whooping cough cases. The statewide figures so far this year include the death of a Dallas infant.

Dial 9-1-1 for Taxi. In Fort Worth, instead of sending ambulances for minor medical issues, 9-1-1 callers have the option of having a taxi dispatched to take them to the hospital instead. But will people take them up on that? I mean, if you can take a cab to the hospital, wouldn’t you just call a cab?

Protest-sparking Kwik Stop Robbery Video Available. Remember when the Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Boulevard was robbed, and the clerk shot the would-be robber? And remember the protests that incited? Well, the video of that night is available now.

Orsini Out as SMU AD. He may have brought June Jones on board, and (eventually) Larry Brown, but SMU Athletic Director Steve Orsini was given his walking papers yesterday by school president R. Gerald Turner.

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