NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : 2 More Pipes Burst; Ship Channel Closes
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Houston Ship Channel, one of America’s busiest waterways, was shut down after two more pipelines, adjacent to those that had already burst, ruptured, spilling crude oil into the San Jacinto River. Meanwhile, the toll from the week’s South Texas floods rose to at least 17 when a 63-year-old woman was found drowned in the home she had refused to leave in Montgomery County, north of Houston.
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