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State transportation officials are kicking around the idea of flipping I-35 and State Highway 130, making I-35 a toll road and opening up 130 as a free highway. 

At a Transportation meeting, Chair Ted Haufton says right now the idea is not even a proposal.  Staff says the Capitol Area Improvement Program has been studying various innovative ideas for taking congestion off of I-35. 

A portion of State Highway 130 may go bankrupt because of a lack of users on that tollway.  It may present an opportunity to make the flip.  Officials want to know if that idea is even legal.  Tex-Dot is holding meetings with taxpayers across the state, taking ideas about what to do about congestion.

This is the anti this: Two-year-old Marshall Shaffer visited Tacoma, Washington's Point Defiance Zoo on Halloween, and got to run around with Kali the tiger cub while dressed as a tiger cub himself.

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Austrian cosplayer Narga-Chan worked with her boyfriend to create this totally awesome Darth Talon cosplay costume. Everything, save for the lightsaber, was done by the nerdy couple. Photographer Greencat shot the photos.

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A kind-eyed Romanian doctor announced this week that he, along with a team of colleagues at Babeş-Bolyai University, had made a marvelous and potentially life-saving stride for medicine, science, and humanity following the successful completion of a round of testing on the artificial blood product they have devoted the last six years of their lives to developing. PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY ARE A BUNCH OF VAMPIRES.

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Stock photography models are no strangers to the world of Internet mockery. In fact, their mock-human poses practically satirize themselves.

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Last night, a huge wind storm knocked out power lines in Lachine, a suburb of Montreal. This amazing video captures an electrical fireball traveling down power lines outside of some very luck (to survive) person's home.

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More than 1,500 Nazi-confiscated modernist paintings, including pieces by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, were discovered in a Munich apartment during a tax evasion-related raid in 2011, according to a report in German magazine Focus.

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Want a trip through a black hole without having to experience that pesky death? You're in luck. There's a special kind of black hole that's not just survivable, but might get you to another time, or another universe.

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John Archibald Wheeler is a physicist who coined a lot of terms. You may have heard of a few of them. Wormhole. Black hole. Quantum foam. And geon. Wait, geon?

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We’ve already seen video evidence of just how masterfully Commander Riker takes a seat, so this shirt analyzing how he leans is the perfect follow-up. Even his hand on his hip is part of the equation.

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An aging shepherd who was confronted by a bear while walking through a raspberry field near his home lived to tell his tale despite being thrown off a cliff by the animal after the two came to blows.

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Filmmaker Todd Kent dressed up his daughter Katie as all of the Avengers last year, but this Halloween he went for something a little different: He dressed her up as all of the Doctors. You’ve got to love the Eleven bow tie on her!

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Buffalo bus driver Darnell "Big Country" Barton says he only did what he felt he was supposed to do when he stopped his bus to rescue a woman threatening to jump from an overpass above the Scajaquada Expressway.

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The Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation look like they’re anything but comfortable. I’ve never wanted to wear one – until now. They’re available every which way. If the TNG uniform hoodies aren’t for you, then how about these lush robes? They’re 100% terry cotton and have the important communicator badge and rank pips embroidered right onto the fabric. Choose from red, blue, or gold – whichever department you want to sink into at the end of the day.

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