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Outside groups have spent nearly $1 billion to boost Republican Senate candidates. Almost 90%, in fact, of pro-GOP TV ads are paid for by outside groups, compared to 55% for Democrats.

El noticiero semanal de Marfa Public Radio es un resumen de historias locales y estatales de la semana.

The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of $2.8 billion in prizes this year, much of it in small prizes. Street and bar celebrations normally break out with winners singing and dancing.

Hillary Clinton has the edge. She has to win just the states leaning in her direction to get enough electoral votes to be president. But Donald Trump has a path, albeit a narrow one.

Órale, this of Caló episode features another iconic word, cholo. It comes from the Nahuatl, or Aztec, word for dog. It entered the Mexican lexicon during the Spanish colonial period as a pejorative for Natives.

The West Texas mountains host a wonderous diversity of birds — from colorful full-time residents to migrating hummingbirds. But this winter has been something special. From Alpine to the Guadalupe Mountains, birds rarely seen in Texas have made their winter abodes here.

“You just can't live in Texas,” as Waylon Jennings sang, “unless you gotta lotta soul,” and West Texans might reasonably think it applies to them more…

Órale, the word this week in Caló is cuerda. In modern Spanish, it means chord, string or line. In Caló, it means a person who’s serious, morally upright, self-assured or uncompromising. A cuerda is opposite of a relaje, a goof-off or an unserious person—we’ve covered this term previously. There are cuerdas in all walks of life, perhaps the same for relajes. Priests, athletes, classmates, and even influencers can be cuerda, The history of this term along the Rio Grande is associated with that of the the colonial rural police during Spanish rule, which was called the cordada after the leather cords, cuerdas, they used to arrest scofflaws and heretics. It was a local all-volunteer irregular posse called together by the upstanding people of the community to enforce local customs, likely more so than the official law. As you can imagine, cuerdas predominated the cordadas. Of course, cordadas—like irregular posses—no longer exist, but the cuerda archetype is still very much present in Caló.

Any team that can put together a four-game winning streak will become the next champions. Only two No. 1 seeds are alive in the tournament, and the highest-profile schools have already gone home.

After the rains, "rain bugs” or “Santa Claus bugs” appear, tiny velvety red plush cutie-pies. Even though they are called “bugs”, they are not insects at all, but arachnids, related to spiders.