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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)

Abilene;Clear;25;WNW;8;81%

Abilene Dyess;Clear;26;WNW;8;66%

Alice;Mostly clear;42;NW;8;64%

Alpine;Clear;31;SSW;9;51%

Amarillo;Clear;21;W;4;83%

Angleton;Clear;45;NW;6;89%

Arlington;Cloudy;36;NNW;6;87%

Austin;Clear;39;NNW;5;54%

Austin Bergstrom;Clear;40;NNW;14;55%

Talk of student loan forgiveness has borrowers looking forward to 2021. But many already benefited from some unprecedented events in 2020:

While the aircraft safety spotlight has recently been focused on the comeback of the Boeing 737 Max, some experts are expressing concern about another safety issue: the eventual return to service of hundreds of planes grounded for months due to the pandemic.

In the 1960s, there were more than 200 college men’s gymnastics programs. Now it's the smallest NCAA sport.

San Francisco Giants left fielder Alex Dickerson has spent a good chunk of his 10 years in pro baseball overcoming injuries, but now he’s coming off a solid — and healthy — season that earned him something he never previously had in his career: a guaranteed contract.

Tacolicious founder Joe Hargrave discusses how the restaurant industry is doing: "The state isn’t offering anything. The city isn’t offering anything. We are already broke and destitute."

With all the stress that 2020 brought to our lives, it also influenced some defining changes in the way we decorate, design, and live in our homes.

In Tuesday night’s 114-113 loss to the Kings at Golden 1 Center, Warriors guard Stephen Curry delivered his signature brilliance, only for his supporting cast to struggle without him.

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Federal authorities are implementing a speed restriction zone southeast of Nantucket due to the presence of an endangered species of whale in the area.

Delaware

435 of 435 precincts - 100 percent

x-John Carney, Dem (i) 292,903 - 59 percent

Julianne Murray, GOP 190,312 - 39 percent

John Machurek, Lib 3,270 - 1 percent

Kathy DeMatteis, IPD 6,150 - 1 percent

5,107 of 5,107 precincts - 100 percent

Woodrow Myers, Dem 968,092 - 32 percent

x-Eric Holcomb, GOP (i) 1,706,724 - 57 percent

Donald Rainwater, Lib 345,567 - 11 percent

3,692 of 3,692 precincts - 100 percent

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Historic win No. 1,099 — making the Stanford coach the all-time winningest in women’s basketball history, passing the late Pat Summitt — came in an empty gym in Stockton, with only the squeak of sneakers on the court and young voices calling out plays as the soundtrack. In terms of setting, it wasn’t that different from win No. 1, which came 42 years earlier, in a near-empty gym in Moscow, Idaho.

ARIES.  (March 19 - April 18):  You occupy a strong position and it's better than you know.  It's also why competitors will try to uproot you over the next few weeks.  All you have to do is stand your ground.

Senior forward Oscar da Silva scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed nine rebounds to help Stanford prevail 82-71 at Cal State Northridge on Tuesday afternoon.

Even on a night when she passed Pat Summitt as the winningest coach in the history of women’s basketball and the Cardinal showed why they’re the nation’s No. 1-ranked team with a 104-61 victory over Pacific, Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer was putting together the pieces to be even better.

The French Laundry reportedly received more than $2.4 million through the Paycheck Protection Program while smaller, less-renowned restaurants struggled to get approval at all from the federal program designed to help small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, an ABC7 News analysis showed.

Phoenix guard Chris Paul and the Suns host the Lakers in a preseason game at 6 p.m. Wednesday (NBA TV).

Giannis Antetokounmpo has agreed to a supermax extension with the Milwaukee Bucks that takes the two-time reigning MVP off next summer’s free-agent market.

Rod Marinelli doesn’t have much time to fix all the problems on the Las Vegas Raiders’ defense.

For the first time since World War II forced the Rose Bowl to Durham, N.C., in 1942, consideration is being given to the game not being in Pasadena.

In its first 11 years of existence and prior to Tara VanDerveer’s arrival on The Farm in 1985, Stanford’s women’s basketball program never won 20 games in a season. With VanDerveer at the helm, the Cardinal have done so each of the past 19 seasons. That’s just one of the jaw-dropping figures she’s compiled on her way to the top of the all-time wins list.

Powerful baseball agent Scott Boras said Tuesday that the Oakland A’s financial picture requires immediate attention and the Athletics can no longer just sit back and wait on a new stadium to be competitive. Boras also said that third baseman Matt Chapman has been cleared to play next season after hip surgery.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary, according to four people familiar with the plans.

BRAHAM, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a Braham man was charged Tuesday after a nine-month investigation into the killing of a man in Pine County.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The lower house of Mexico’s congress overwhelmingly approved a controversial law Tuesday limiting foreign agents and lifting their immunity.

170,220 of 170,228 precincts - 99 percent

Has won 26 states including the District of Columbia

with 306 ev.

Leads in 0 states with 0 ev.

Has won 25 states with 232 ev.

Leads in 0 states with 0 ev.

Has won 0 states with 0 ev.

Leads in 0 states with 0 ev.

Needed to win: 270 of the 538 electoral votes (ev) from

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