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• Welcome to Texas, where Sarah Stogner, 37, is running for railroad commissioner against Wayne Christian. Christian has amassed a war chest of $766,000, and Stogner is apparently willing to bare all to win the contest, Canoe reported on Feb. 23: "I have other assets," she said.
To prove it, Stogner posted a 5-second TikTok video of herself wearing only cowboy boots and hat and straddling an oil pumping jack as "Apache" by the Sugarhill Gang played.
Unfortunately for her, the stunt may not have worked: She lost the endorsement of the San Antonio Express-News and rankled some religious conservative supporters.
"I knew it would be controversial," Stogner said.
"I didn't realize it would incite the rage and anger that it did from the press." [Canoe, 2/23/2022]
• An unnamed 22-year-old student at Brigham Young University in Utah was busily trying to make 5 pounds of rocket fuel on Feb. 20 in his dorm kitchen when the mixture exploded, People reported.
Flames "engulfed the walls and ceiling around the stove, and the intense heat tripped the fire sprinkler system," BYU police said in a statement.
Although no one was injured, 22 students were relocated while cleanup and repairs were undertaken.
Lt. Jeff Long said the student was trying to re-create something he saw online.
"He didn't think this through," Long said.
Which is basically a subhead for every article about a college student. [People, 2/22/2022]