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Harold Simmons' company wins radioactive waste permission
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons won a decade-long battle to dispose of radioactive waste in West Texas when state regulators on Wednesday granted a license for his company's Andrews County facility.

Metro blog: Dallas ranks low in caffeine use, survey says
According to a new survey by a national health-care company, Dallas has the fifth-lowest rate of caffeine consumption among 20 major U.S. cities.

New class of stars zooming through space at 5 times speed of normal star
LOS ANGELES – Like out-of-control teens running through their neighborhoods, a new class of stars has been found tearing through space at up to 112,000 mph, five times the speed of a normal star.

Tarrant County reports one case in nationwide salmonella outbreak
A total of five Texas cases were reported, in the counties of Tarrant, Travis, Harris and Willacy, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8). The fifth Texas location was not available.

UT Southwestern professor honored by Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
Rama Ranganathan will receive this year's annual award from the academy for science. Researchers from Houston and Austin have won the academy's awards for medicine and engineering.

source: Dallas News