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El Paso Nonprofits Aid Boston Bangladesh Victims
Limbs International, an El Paso not-for-profit organization which helps leg amputees in Third World countries, plans to provide prosthetics to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and victims of a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, it announced Monday. The organization is ready to provide its Limbs Relief Knee, a durable, plastic, low-cost, artificial knee used as part of a ...
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Billions for campus construction close to passage
In its tentative approval of campus construction bonds, the Texas House upped the total from about $2.4 billion to almost $2.7 billion. Billions of dollars in bonds for campus construction have received tentative approval by the Texas House, the Texas Tribune reports. The version of Senate Bill 16 by State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, considered by the House on Monday allocated bonds to ...
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Officials Fear Texas Tornado Death Toll May Rise
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. ...
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Wells Fargo Chase slow foreclosure sales while Bank of America continues
Three large banks have nearly halted foreclosure sales while making sure they are meeting revised standards on how troubled homeowners are to be treated. Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. have nearly halted foreclosure sales after federal regulators revised orders on the how troubled borrowers were to be treated before losing their homes. But Bank of America Corp. is ...
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Chases Dimon survives vote to split chairman CEO jobs
Jamie Dimon will remain as CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon will keep his titles of chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. after shareholders voted down a proposal to split the company's top two jobs. The New York Times reported that New York City-based Chase (NYSE: JPM), the nation's largest banking company, also saw its entire board of 11 directors re-elected. ...
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Connor Group sells another Dallas apartment complex
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 ...
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Man arrested after $1.6M in cocaine discovered
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- Authorities say an Ohio man has been arrested in West Texas after a state trooper found about 50 pounds of cocaine valued at more than $1.6 million hidden in a false compartment of a ...
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Texas Passes Merry Christmas Bill To Fight War On Christmas
WASHINGTON -- Christmas may be seven months away, but Texas is ready for it. State lawmakers there waged their own battle against the so-called War on Christmas on Friday, passing ...
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Next Mac will be made in Texas Tim Cook says
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 ...
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Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location
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 ...
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Choke Canyon Reservoir yields state record alligator
Braxton Bielski, 18, shot this 14-foot, 3-inch alligator during a public hunt at the James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area on Choke Canyon Reservoir. The 800-pound giant is a state record, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department officials said. Fort Bend County teen kills 800-pound alligator at James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area on Choke Canyon ...
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Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry
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 ...
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Dougherty calls on Lehmberg to resign
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The only Republican on the Travis County Commissioners Court called Tuesday for Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. Gerald Daugherty said that Lehmberg's conviction last month on a drunken driving charge has undermined her standing as the county's chief prosecutor. Lehmberg was sentenced to 45 days in the county jail. She was released after 22 days ...
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WATCH Spurs expect Randolph Grizzlies to rebound
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Zach Randolph's miserable debut in the Western Conference finals led to a sleepless night and a long film session.The Memphis Grizzlies' All-Star power forward is hardly down and out, though.Randolph pointed out Monday that even Muhammad Ali got knocked down and was able to get back up. He's counting on doing the same as Memphis prepares to play at San ...
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Time running out for state water plan in Austin
The Texas Legislature has until Monday to approve a resolution that would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot for November. Voters would then decide whether to take $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to pay for water infrastructure and conservation projects. The first of two bills that deal with the states water infrastructure got final approval from the Texas Legislature ...
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Construction worker killed in Grapevine
GRAPEVINE — A construction worker slipped off rafters at a home under construction and died from his injuries Monday afternoon at a local hospital, police said ...
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Water restrictions set to return June 3
Even with storms expected across the region Tuesday, the water district, which provides raw water to 98 percent of Tarrant County, does not expect enough precipitation to avoid hitting the trigger for Stage 1 water restrictions by early ...
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North Texas in direct path of new round of storms Tuesday
Today “will be a bigger day for us than today,” said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth. “Unfortunately we have lots of moisture still in place and storms will be sliding into our ...
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2 lawsuits filed against Maine Catholic church
- Two brothers are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, saying church officials knew a priest was sexually abusing them and other children but failed to stop it. In complaints in Cumberland County Superior Court, Jeffrey and Frederick Conroy say the late Father James Vallely abused them from approximately 1976 through approximately 1979, when they were altar boys at St. Michael's ...
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Back surgery has Tony Romo out of Cowboys practices
Tony Romo had a cyst removed from his back last month. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo won't be on the field Tuesday when off-season workouts begin for the team at its Valley Ranch facility in Irving. The team said that Romo, who signed a $108 million contract extension in March, will be getting time to heal after he had a troublesome cyst removed last month from his back. The Cowboys ...
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Compare Metrics completes $4.2M Series A funding
Software maker Compare Metrics Inc. has completed a $4.2 million Series A round of funding. The Austin-based company disclosed that investors included Austin Ventures LP and several angel investors, according to a Tuesday news release. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools to e-commerce websites with a white-label product discovery platform. Company ...
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ATT unlimited data customers to get video calling ability
Apple's FaceTime app is a popular way for video calling on the iPhone. Dallas-based AT&T Inc.'s ban on its unlimited data iPhone users from making calls using the phone's popular FaceTime feature soon may be over. The Los Angeles Times reported that AT&T will allow software and smartphone makers the ability to enable video calling for unlimited data customers on preinstalled apps on ...
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Texas Hold Em in Tehran - By Yasmin Alem
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 ...
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High risk of severe storms in region
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Travis, Williamson counties and large parts of the Texas Hill Country were ripe for severe weather on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. Included in the mix were enhanced chances of severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging winds, and even isolated tornadoes. Super-cell thunderstorms were called a possibility. "Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and ...
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Central Texas braces for more severe storms
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 ...
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Lack of City Council commitment to streetcar?
Fort Worth looks like it may be a long way off until the city has a proper streetcar system if current commitment to the project by local government is anything to go by.
In July of 2008 the City Council of Fort Worth decided that a modern streetcar system might be beneficial to the rapidly growing city, a solution was needed to urban intra-city mass transportation and plans went into the pipeline, but two years on little progress has been made, it seems instead that the city council lacks the commitment to carry out the necessary work to see a streetcar system come to fruition. Read more
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