The actual sharpening is no small feat; it involves erecting a scaffold and using a custom-made sharpener. Each year, the pencil is trimmed by 3 to 10 inches. While its size gradually decreases, the ...

When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more than 1,000 people. The giant pencil, known ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter ...

Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it, it gets a bit shorter. They’ve taken anywhere from 3 to 10 inches (8 to 25 centimeters) off a year.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil ...

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Within hours of a DOJ lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting its undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more.

HOUSTON — Gov. Greg Abbott signed three new bail reform bills in Houston on Tuesday at a packed Crime Stoppers event, with two measures automatically becoming law while the third requires voter ...

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