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Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:15:08 -0400

Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

Massive tornadoes that hit Oklahoma Texas blamed on stubborn jet stream

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:21 -0400

View results The same weather phenomenon that brought unusually cold temperatures to the East Coast this spring is being blamed for the massive and devastating tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma this week: A jet stream that refused to leave.Weather forecasters tracked this year’s jet stream - the pattern of high-altitude winds - as moving farther south, and staying farther south, for a ...

Even small business is bigger in Texas

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:58:35 -0400

As more entrepreneurs flock to the state, experts are pointing to a combination of growth-friendly conditions that have small businesses growing in, and messing with, ...

Boy Scouts to open two-day meeting in Texas to decide whether to allow openly gay Scouts

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:46:28 -0400

GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform. Officials of the Irving, Texas-based organization are scheduled to open the first of the ballots cast on whether to allow openly gay Scouts. Scouting officials propose allowing openly gay Scouts ...

Charge investigation of Texas fertilizer blast hampered by in-fighting

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:38:30 -0400

The federal safety agency investigating the West Fertilizer Company explosion in Texas has accused other investigators of hampering his agency's work. Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a letter that the Texas state fire marshal and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blocked access to key witnesses for three weeks after the April ...

Apple to build Macs in low-tax Texas

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:55:08 -0400

Computerworld - Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief executive named Texas as the location of a new factory where Apple will assemble Macs. Cook was in Washington, D.C. ...

Texas to drug screen unemployment benefit recipients

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:15:05 -0400

Individuals in Texas who receive unemployment benefits will soon be subjected to drug testing, as a result of the passage of Senate Bill 21. Small-business advocates in Texas are hailing the passage of a bill that would allow drug testing for recipients who receive unemployment insurance benefits. Business owners are paying into a fund thats become increasingly expensive, NFIB/Texas Executive ...

Feds vs. feds over Texas blast

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:26:16 -0400

Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel’s chairman said.In a May 17 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso asked the California Democrat to help the board ...

Retired pathologist believes in cancer society

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:19:06 -0400

Cancer is central to Peschel’s earliest medical experience, when she was one of three women in the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, supporting herself as a ...

Fort Worth considering new pay arrangement for injured cop

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:19:06 -0400

FORT WORTH — The city is considering withdrawing “extended leave” pay for a police officer who remains paralyzed after being shot on the job more than 10 years ago, a move that would effectively force her into medical retirement and pare what she makes today, the officer and the president of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association said ...

Chemical Safety Board says ATF Texas fire marshal blocking its probe of fatal plant blast

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:49:50 -0400

WACO, Texas - Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel's chairman said. In a May 17 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso asked the California Democrat to help ...

MLB Oakland 1 Texas 0

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:41:27 -0400

Rookie Daniel Straily and two Oakland relievers teamed up for a three-hit shutout Tuesday and the Athletics edged Texas 1-0. Straily (2-2) allowed only two hits and didn't issue a walk over seven scoreless frames, striking out five. The right-hander broke a personal four-start winless streak with the decision. Sean Doolittle blanked Texas in the eighth ...

Minister now in Virginia accused of child sexual assault in the 1990s in Fort Worth

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:10:13 -0400

FORT WORTH — The pastor of a Richmond, Va., church was arrested Tuesday on warrants issued in Fort Worth accusing him of sexually assaulting two girls in the ...

Airlines Issue Warning About Postcards Promising Free Travel

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:43:48 -0400

Postcards touting American Airlines and Delta logos are enticing North Texans with offers of free vacations, but both airlines said they have nothing to do with the cards and consumers should ...

From Lewisville With Love Okla. Tornado Donations

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:43:47 -0400

A Lewisville woman whose brother lost his home in the Oklahoma tornado asked for donations for the victims -- and is overwhelmed by the response from friends, neighbors and even ...

Dallas Stars to unveil new uniform logo in rebranding effort

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:15:22 -0400

The Dallas Stars plan to unveil a new uniform, as well as a new logo, next month. The Dallas Stars plan to update the team's look with a new uniform design, as well as a new logo in a rebranding effort aimed at bringing renewed attention to the National Hockey League club. Ever since Stars Owner Tom Gaglardi purchased the team a year-and-a-half ago, the club has been working on a rebranding ...

National Briefing | Southwest Texas House Votes to Ban Medicaid Expansion

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:26:15 -0400

Rick Perry notified the Obama administration last summer that his state would not expand Medicaid. The House measure, which is an amendment to a Medicaid-related bill, says state officials "may not provide medical assistance to any person who would not have been eligible for that assistance" under the criteria already in effect. A version without the amendment has passed the Senate, and ...

Lesbian Couple Can’t Cohabitate Rules Texas Judge

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:31 -0400

According to the AP report, Compton and Price have argued that the divorce clause is unconstitutional, on the basis that it limits their ';thought, belief, and experssion.';. The couple have stated that they will comply with the judge’s order, though they believe is could be ';harmful to the children'; and disruptive to their ...

Chemical-safety watchdog criticizes probe of Texas blast

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:14:21 -0400

(Reuters) - Officials with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board say they may never know what caused last month's deadly fertilizer-plant explosion in Texas because of interference by federal and Texas agencies, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the head of the regulatory board to U.S. Senator Barbara ...

Thunderstorm warning issued in East Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:07:47 -0400

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning from 4:51 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. for Franklin County, Upshur County, Camp County, Morris County, Wood County, Cass County, Titus ...

Solar Impulse airplane set for trip to Dallas if weather allows

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:29:26 -0400

Paul Johnson, of Tempe, Ariz., takes a photograph of the Solar Impulse airplane during a May 7 open house at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane is due to set out Wednesday on the record-breaking second leg of its solar-powered trip across America, from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, as long as the weather is acceptable."Although the flight has been ...

Texas judge Lesbian couple cant cohabitate

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:29:02 -0400

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, which began with a storybook wedding, ended Friday in a grim courtroom with a judge approving a divorce settlement after a protracted legal battle between the former ...

Amber Alert Issued for McKinney 10-Month-Old

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:07:49 -0400

Alcocer is believed to have left the McKinney area between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Investigators said they believe she is traveling with a man in a white 2003 Dodge Dakota pickup truck that is pulling a black trailer with a blue ...

Texas House passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:06:08 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform ...

Texas windstorm insurance bill dies on Senate floor

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:54:22 -0400

Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, is blaming Steve Mostyn, the Houston attorney and Democratic mega-donor who in many ways has become the face of windstorm litigation since Hurricane Ike, as the primary reason Taylor's Senate Bill 1700 is ...

Texas Drops “Anti-American” CSCOPE Lessons Battle Continues

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:22:53 -0400

A highly controversial school curriculum used in much of Texas known as "CSCOPE," which came under relentless assault from activists and parents ...

Texas nixes curriculum criticized as anti-American

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:35 -0400

Texas education officials are doing away with a controversial curriculum plan conservatives criticize as anti-American. The state's regional Education Service Centers will no longer use CSCOPE, a curriculum guideline provided to many small Texas school districts too small to employ curriculum development professionals of their own, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday. The lesson plans ...

Texas approves bill to guide fund water projects

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:30 -0400

Legislation to tackle Texas' water woes was approved by the Texas Senate on Monday. House Bill 4, filed by State Rep. Allan Ritter, R-Nederland, would direct $2 billion into a water infrastructure fund that would offer loans for projects such as new water reservoirs, pipelines and conservation projects. The legislation will restructure the Texas Water Development Board to a three-member, ...

Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:35 -0400

GULFPORT, Miss. -; Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane ...

Texas Sues Companies Connected to Macondo Oil Spill

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:36 -0400

The state of Texas filed a lawsuit Friday against BP plc, Transocean Ltd. and other parties involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages related to the affects of the oil spill. Texas is the fifth Gulf of Mexico state to file claims seeking lost tax revenue, lost revenue from state parks, damages to natural resources and civil penalties for each day that oil was spilled and ...

Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:28 -0400

Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...

Texas Fires Shot Against The War On Christmas — In May

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:54:06 -0400

measure labeled the ';Merry Christmas bill,'; which is currentlyawaiting Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-TX) signature,provides that public school staff may ';offer traditional greetings'; including ';Merry Christmas'; or ';Happy Hanukkah'; to their students, and it permits school districts to ';display on school property scenes or symbols associated with ...

Storm chasers following next line of storms in Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:52:08 -0400

cold front that again is extremely slow-moving. so we're going to we keeping an eye on these storms throughout the rest of the afternoon. now is the time of day where these storms do continue to strengthen and fire up. the dark shade in yellow is an area where we do ...

Dallas Stars to Reveal New Uniform Logo Next Month

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:30 -0400

Owner and Governor Tom Gaglardi, President and CEO Jim Lites, General Manager Jim Nill, Executive Advisor and Alternate Governor Mike Modano and Stars forward Jamie Benn will all be a part of the special ...

Canseco To Play Again In Texas Starting This Week

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:42:20 -0400

Jose Canseco has been out of the game for a while, but he’s anxious to get back in (as anyone who’s been following his Twitter feed will know). As of Thursday, he’ll get his wish. The former Bash Brother will begin his stint with the Fort Worth Cats as a player and a coach. The first game, coincidentally, will be against Edinburg, which is managed by his brother Ozzie. "I ...

Fitch Releases Report on Texas AM University System TX

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:41:24 -0400

U.S. Money Funds Return to Eurozone Banks U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April, although asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch Ratings. As of end-April 2013, MMF allocations to eurozone banks represented 15.1% of assets under management within Fitch Ratings'sample of the 10 largest U.S. ...

Trapped Firefighter Dies 28-Year Veteran Killed in Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:41:18 -0400

Firefighter Stanley Wilson was killed Monday during a six-alarm blaze at a Dallas condominium complex. Wilson was one of over 100 firefighters who responded to the 3 a.m. blaze at the Hearthwood North Condominiums.The complex was covered in flames as help arrived. Firefighters attempted an offensive attack before the fire began to rapidly increase, forcing them onto the defense. Wilson entered ...

Tornado Watch is in effect until 10 pm for most of East Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:34:57 -0400

From Staff ReportsThe National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 10 p.m. for Smith and 20 other counties in the region.The counties are Angelina, Cass, Gregg, Morris, Red River, San Augustine, Titus, Bowie, Cherokee, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Shelby, Upshur, Camp, Franklin, Marion, Panola, Sabine and ...

Storms expected to hit East Texas this evening

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:34:57 -0400

fharper@tylerpaper.com The main line of storms is expected to hit East Texas between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. today, Doc Deason, with KYTX CBS 19 meteorologist.Deason said the primary concerns with the main storm line is the possibility of damaging winds and hail, which could be between half an inch to golf ...

Army major found dead at Texas military base

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:25 -0400

Sam Houston in San Antonio, Army officials say. The officer was not immediately identified pending notification of family, and an Army statement did not give a possible cause of death, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday. The base's firefighters discovered the officer about 7 a.m. Monday while responding to a call about a water leak, the statement said. He was found in his room ...

Texas couple charged with injury to adoptive son who died

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:23 -0400

A Texas couple have been charged with injury to a child, their 4-year-old adoptive son who died in March. David and Angela Cook of Cleburne were arrested Monday, ...

Dallas to build shopping strip to complement convention center

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:00 -0400

The Dallas Convention Center and the Omni Hotel are connected in downtown Dallas. Dallas city leaders are hoping a new 15,000 square-foot strip of retail and restaurants they are planning to build near the Dallas Convention Center will help the city attract more businesses. It's all part of a bigger plan that includes a 350-space parking garage, pedestrian streetscapes and streetcars. The ...

Mesquite provides information on severe weather

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:55:58 -0400

Mesquite, TX - May 21, 2013 - Today, the National Weather Service out of Fort Worth is predicting that conditions are right in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area for strong to severe storms to develop this afternoon into the evening hours as the storms move across from the northwest to the southeast. These storms have the potential to produce very high winds and large, damaging hail. There is ...

Texas Emerging Technology Fund slated to get $50M

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:56 -0400

The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be allocated $50 million for the next biennium. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be replenished with $50 million for the next two years, based on a new budget deal, the Austin American Statesman reports. Although this falls below Gov. Rick Perrys request of $69.5 million for the ETF for the next two years, the amount is still a ...

Fort Worth Implements Stage 1 Water Restrictions

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:15 -0400

"The watering restrictions apply to all 225,000 Fort Worth retail accounts, including those outside the city limits. It also applies to wholesale customers, the other entities that purchase treated water and resell it. In accordance with their contract, wholesale customers must enact the same restrictions as Fort Worth. The wholesale customers that regularly purchase water are Aledo, ...

Texas senior 18 bags 800-pound record alligator

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:08 -0400

A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator ...

Despite rain water restrictions coming to North Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:10:02 -0400

The Tarrant Regional Water District will implement mandatory water restrictions June 3, limiting irrigation to twice a week for most Tarrant County cities. It feels strange to talk about water restrictions with thunderstorm clouds on the horizon but hey, this is Texas. Most cities in North Texas will have to observe mandatory water restrictions in June if they aren't already. The Tarrant ...

Park Gates at City Place in Dallas gets new owner

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:39 -0400

Park Gates at City Place was sold by The Connor Group to a new investor. In the second property sale this month, Ohio-based The Connor Group has sold Park Gates at City Place, a 228-unit apartment property in East Dallas. Terms of the deal, including the investor purchasing the property, were undisclosed, a company official told me Tuesday. The Connor Group owned the East Dallas property for six ...

Former Texas Marine kidnapped in Mexico

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:16 -0400

Armando Torres, 27 A former Marine from Texas who served for seven years has been kidnapped by armed men in Mexico, his family said.Armando Torres, 27, crossed the Los Indios Bridge in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday night to visit his dad and was supposed to return Wednesday morning.Torres' uncle, Eduardo Torres, says he's worried and claims he and two other family members from Mexico ...

Many Texas women getting more invasive breast biopsy

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:37 -0400

Many women getting breast surgical biopsy instead less invasive biopsy. A pink ribbon to recognize breast cancer awareness hangs on the North Portico of the White House in Washington. UPI/Kevin ...

Texas authorities issue warrant for Richmond pastor

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:45 -0400

RICHMOND -- A warrant for the arrest of Geronimo Aguilar, senior pastor of the Richmond Outreach Center, has been issued but it is not clear whether it has been served or if Aguilar is in custody, according to sources familiar with the ...

Mesquite police investigating early morning shooting

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:29 -0400

Police received a call at 1:59 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, about loud sounds of an argument and multiple gunshots at the Peachtree Apartments, 1402 S. Peachtree. When police arrived they found one victim, Roinico Harris, a black male born in 1979, in the driver's seat of a vehicle with injuries from a gunshot wound.Harris was transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas and is currently in critical ...

Deadly tornado rips apart Oklahoma town severe weather in north Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:23:33 -0400

Severe weather building three miles outside of Muenster, Texas Monday evening. Storms plagued north central Texas for hours after a deadly tornado killed 24 people in Moore, Okla. Photo by James ...

Officials Fear Texas Tornado Death Toll May Rise

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:12:12 -0400

Multiple tornadoes, flash floods and huge hail hit North Texas hard on Wednesday. At least six people dead and more are missing, and officials fear the death toll could rise. Storm chasers 40 miles west of Fort Worth braved the weather to capture dramatic video of a tornado touchdown. In all, 10 tornadoes slammed into North Texas as part of a massive system that spawned severe thunderstorms. ...

Connor Group sells another Dallas apartment complex

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:54 -0400

Connor Group has sold its 228-unit Park Gates at City Place in Dallas. The Connor Group has sold a property in Dallas, its second this month. The Centerville-based real estate investment firm sold Park Gates at City Place to an undisclosed buyer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Connor Group had owned the 228-unit community for six years. With this sale, the company now owns and operates ...

Cleburne Alvarado ISD Dismissing Early Tuesday Due to Weather

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:56:46 -0400

Tuesday morning, some parents in Cleburne dropped off their kids at school in tears, knowing that many parents did the same yesterday in Moore, Okla., just hours before a tornado destroyed two elementary ...

Next Mac will be made in Texas Tim Cook says

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:29 -0400

May 21, 2013: Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives on Capitol Hill, in Washington, to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue ...

Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:54 -0400

Sprinkles Cupcakes is looking to expand to Forth Worth, according to a company spokeswoman. The site would be the company's second North Texas location. Sprinkles Cupcakes has turned its attention to Fort Worth, after spending the past year planning new additions to Dallas, a company spokeswoman said. Joanne Yurich said Sprinkles is looking for sites in Fort Worth for its second North Texas ...

Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:39:34 -0400

The five bills that passed through the Senate provide a new approach to help grow the expanding craft beer industry and update several business practices and regulatory issues in the Alcoholic Beverage Code, according to the Beer Alliance of Texas. Its bottoms up for craft beer brewers in Texas after the House passed a package of bills Monday to help create a more robust craft beer ...

Texas Hold Em in Tehran - By Yasmin Alem

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:12 -0400

Gitmo needs $200 million in upgrades; Guardsmen called up in Oklahoma; an ICBM test planned for today; Hagel meets with a Russian; What North Korea could do to the U.S.; Baron, out; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...

Central Texas braces for more severe storms

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:46:26 -0400

AUSTIN (KXAN) - One day after the same system of storms that battered an Oklahoma City suburb stretched into Texas, a renewed risk of severe weather emerged Tuesday. The entire KXAN viewing area is included in the slight risk area for severe weather from the Storm Prediction Center, while some of the northern neighborhoods have an increased chance for severe weather by being included in the ...

Texas windstorm bill that extends alternative certification program advances

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:32:08 -0400

Thousands of coastal homeowners could get a reprieve on losing their wind and hailstorm insurance if lawmakers can hustle through a bill now working its way through the Texas House of ...

Dallas Cowboys Tony Romo to miss workouts after cyst removal

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:25 -0400

Dallas quarterback Tony Romo warms up before the Cowboys' game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer) IRVING, Texas -- Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss at least three weeks of offseason workouts after a procedure to remove a cyst from his back. The team's website reported Tuesday that Romo underwent the procedure last month ...

Texas House to vote on drug testing for welfare benefits

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:17:14 -0400

AUSTIN -- Texas lawmakers will be voting on whether to require some welfare recipients to take drug tests. The Texas House is scheduled to vote on the measure on Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 11 would require people enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to answer questions to see if they are at risk of abusing drugs. If they fail the screening, they'll be required to ...

Fort Worth Police Searching for Missing Boy

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:21:25 -0400

The boy's mother told police the boy was told to take out the trash at his home in the 5700 block of Blackmon Court in north Fort Worth. The boy went outside but never came back ...

Men Flee After Police Chase Stolen Truck

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:21:24 -0400

The chase ended around 2:40 a.m. on Woodmont Drive in southeast Dallas. Police had attempted a traffic stop on a pickup truck occupied by five men, but the truck sped away along US ...

Mesquite Police Respond to Shooting

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:21:23 -0400

Officers were called to a group fight that turned into a shooting at the Peachtree Apartments, in the 1400 block of South Peachtree Road, early Tuesday ...

Why Texas loves trucks

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:13:46 -0400

A 1998 Ford F-150 Forget hybrids and small, fuel-frugal cars when you're in Texas. The Lone Star State, where I spent five days last week, loves big, gas-guzzling pickup trucks. The number of trucks of various nameplates and ages seen on the road or parked at shopping centers is so ubiquitous that I just had to go around taking snapshots of them. The pickups I saw in Dallas and Plano were ...

Texas parents charged after adopted son 4 dies

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:12:51 -0400

CLEBURNE, Texas-A North Texas husband and wife have been charged with felony injury to a child after their 4-year-old adopted son was found dead at their home. Cleburne police arrested David and Angel Cook after an autopsy report released Monday indicated Buddy Cook's death was a homicide. The body was discovered March 22. Earlier Child Protective Services affidavits said Buddy apparently ...

Second Kiln at Texas Industries’ Hunter Cement Plant Achieves Operational Status

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:07:13 -0400

Texas Industries, Inc. announced today that its Texas subsidiary has achieved operational status of its second kiln at its Hunter cement plant, near New Braunfels, Texas. Following a successful commissioning process which began in November of 2012, the 1.4-million ton state-of-the art kiln line has realized its design performance capabilities and is producing ...

Six dead in Texas storms

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:58 -0400

Illustration. A powerful storm that may have spawned tornados ripped through northern Texas, killing six people and injuring more than 100, media reports said. (AFP/Don ...

Texas search team to help after Okla. twister

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:16:29 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Members of an elite search and rescue team from Texas have been dispatched to Oklahoma to help with recovery following a deadly ...

Texas hosting sales tax holiday on Energy Star products

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:15:04 -0400

Texas shoppers will be able to buy select Energy Star-rated appliances tax free from May 25 through May 27. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reminded shoppers this week that the states annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is this weekend from Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27. Consumers will be able to buy Energy Star-qualified air conditioners priced at $6,000 or less; refrigerators at $2,000 ...

More oil pipeline capacity planned for Texas

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:02:08 -0400

A 95-mile pipeline extension from western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle will carry as much as 75,000 barrels of oil per day, a pipeline company said. Plains All American Pipeline announced it was building a 95-mile extension for an Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to accommodate expansions in production from the region. "The new Western Oklahoma pipeline will provide up to 75,000 ...

Unnecessary Breast Biopsy Surgery Performed On More Than One Third Of Texas Women Diagnosed With A Breast Mass

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:20:41 -0400

Many women in Texas who are found to have an abnormality on routine mammogram or discover a lump in one of their breasts end up having an old-fashioned surgical biopsy to find out whether the breast abnormality is malignant. Since 2001, national expert panels have recommended that the first course of action for women ...

NE Texas expects severe storms possible tornadoes

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:45:56 -0400

DALLAS-Forecasters expect a stormy day across North Texas and East Texas as another day of severe thunderstorms are expected to make it into the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A layer of warm air over the area had limited storm development in much of North Texas over the past two days. That layer is expected to dissipate on Tuesday, allowing storms and isolated tornadoes to develop. Storms have ...

Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:13:02 -0400

- black birds - perched on the tops of palm trees swell to a noisy, unavoidable cacophony. That is also the strategy, it could be said, that local officials, health care providers and frustrated Valley residents are trying to use to convince Governor Rick Perry and state Republican lawmakers to set aside their opposition and expand Medicaid, a key provision of the federal health law. The Rio ...