Death toll from Texas February cold spell rises by 59 to reach 210
by Associated Press in Austin from on (#5M67P)
State officials add to deadly cost of failure of state power grid, which caused a political scandal
Texas officials have added 59 deaths to the toll wrought by a February cold spell and the ensuing collapse of the state electric power grid.
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