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HOUSTON, June 26 (UPI) -- Extremely dry weather has prompted Houston's Harris County to extend a fireworks ban past the Fourth of July, county officials say.
County Judge Ed Emmett issued a disaster declaration for the area which prohibits the sale, use or transportation of all stick rockets and missiles with fins, the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.
The ban, which would have expired at noon on Friday, will be in effect until the morning of July 6.
Houston has been gripped by unseasonably warm temperatures and bone dry conditions for weeks.
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UMEA, Sweden, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
A 29-year-old Swedish man faces multiple charges for pretending he was kidnapped to extort money from his parents, police said.
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
Hollywood's Paramount Pictures says director Michael Bay is to helm a fourth Transformers movie to be released in 2014.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
U.S. supermajor Exxon Mobil won't be able to take part in an oil and natural gas licensing auction scheduled for May in Iraq, a spokesman said.
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Texas police said they arrested an 18-year-old woman who led them on a chase while wearing nothing but a pair of cowboy boots.
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