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Texas House panel approves new youth punishment
By URIEL J. GARCIAAssociated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas House panel has endorsed a bill to create a mandatory life sentence with the possibility of parole after 40 years for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder. The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee sent the bill Wednesday to the full House, which is expected to vote before the end of the 30-day special session next week. The bill ...
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Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill
Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...
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Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf ...
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Texas Border Checkpoint Mostly Ensnares Americans For Drug Offenses
Fifteen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, a sleepy Texas county with more square miles than people is home to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. But while the checkpoint is intended to snag immigration ...
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94th Reno Rodeo opens Thursday Wests richest
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- An up-and-coming young buck who's trading his basketball shoes for cowboy boots and the defending world champion bull rider are among the headliners this week at the 94th Reno ...
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Cuts to food stamps threaten farm bill
White House opposition to the House's massive farm bill could leave some Republicans and conservative groups in the awkward position of agreeing with President ...
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Corpus Christi police seek woman accused of stealing computers from store in Flour Bluff.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Corpus Christi Police property crimes detectives are looking for a woman who is accused of stealing from a store in Flour Bluff on June 4, 5 and 6, police said in a news ...
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Barbara Canales picked to fill vacated Port Commission seat
CALLER-TIMES FILE The court selected Canales, an attorney with a petroleum engineering degree and the lone female applicant to the post, from among seven ...
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Crime Stoppers 2013 23
Published June 9, 2013 Police are looking for information on Nueces County's 10 Most Wanted. Call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS or visit www.888tips.com to report ...
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Dewhurst tweet says bill attempts to close clinics
AUSTIN (AP) Texas Senate Republicans insist proposed new restrictions on abortion facilities are designed to protect women's health. But a tweet Wednesday from the account of Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said what Democrats have claimed all along: the plan is an attempt to shut down clinics and all but ban abortion in Texas. Senate Republicans Tuesday night passed sweeping new ...
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NJ Gov. Christie is still a Dallas Cowboys fan
SAYREVILLE, N.J. -; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised some schoolchildren when he told them his favorite football team is the Dallas ...
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Texas Tackles Key Regulatory Barriers To Cogeneration
Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law today two bills promoting deployment of cogeneration in Texas. Cogeneration, or combined heat and power, is refers to a suite of technologies designed to produce electricity and useful thermal energy in a single process. "[T]hese policy changes will be effective to help Texas meet resource adequacy challenges and provide secure energy to critical ...
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Texas Megachurch Pastor Asks Congregation to Sow $52 Favor Seeds to Upgrade Helicopter Blades
A Texas megachurch pastor, whose 'Aviation Department' advised him that upgrading the blades on his helicopter would save his church $50,000, recenlty caused an uproar for asking his congregation to help finance the upgrade with $52 'favor ...
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T Magazine On View | An All-American Roadside Attraction in West Texas
Over the next few months, motorists speeding through the West Texas desert on Highway 90, just outside the arts town of Marfa, will encounter an unexpected roadside attraction: a white neon Playboy logo hovering above a matte-black 1972 Dodge Charger perched at an 18-degree angle atop a concrete plinth. Playboy Marfa, as it’s being called, is the first in a series of art projects ...
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BSA appeals Texas order to turn over abuse files
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America is asking the Texas Supreme Court to review an order requiring it to turn over years of so-called perversion files in a child abuse ...
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Drop In Dallas Latino Representation Highlights Voter Turnout Problem
The Latino community saw its representation decline in the city of Dallas this weekend for the second time this year, where a local race left the city council with just two Hispanic members. That wasn't supposed to ...
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Ala teen charged in case of baby found in Texas
Authorities have located a missing 10-month-old Alabama boy in Texas with the 14-year-old girl who allegedly took him from a home in ...
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Optimistic Texas Shoplifter Steals Penis Enlargement Pills And Of Course Oversize Magnum Condoms
An optimistic shoplifter who swiped "male enhancement" pills from a 7-Eleven in Texas also made sure to steal a box of jumbo-sized condoms, police report. The unknown perpetrator walked out of the Dallas business early Sunday morning with a $31.14 package of ExtenZe, the purported penis enlargement supplement, and Magnum condoms valued at $19.16, according to ...
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Judge to hear new evidence in school finance case
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The judge in Texas' sweeping school finance case says he will hear new evidence based on the Legislature's recent restoring of about $3.4 billion in funding to ...
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Unemployed Texas teacher returns lost bag containing $20G
An unemployed teacher was driving home after dropping her cat off at a veterinarian when she noticed a bag on the street. She stopped but doubted it contained anything, but soon discovered the bag was holding about $20,000. Candace Scott said the bag had a Chase bank label, so she promptly delivered it to a nearby branch. She pound on the glass around 8 a.m. Tuesday to get the branch manager to ...
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Fitch Confirms S-T F1 Rating on Texas Veterans Bonds Taxable Refunding Series 2010B
Money Market Funds Explore Callable Commercial Paper in Value Search Money market funds (MMFs) are slowly increasing exposure to a relatively new short-term instrument - callable commercial paper (CP), according to Fitch Ratings. MMFs are exploring callable CP as a way to add additional yield and diversification to portfolios, as well as in response to banks' reduced appetite for providing ...
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Car driver cited in deadly biker wreck
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The driver of a car involved in a deadly motorcycle wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. The wreck happened early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street, killing a 59-year-old man. Police said a black 2012 Honda Accord was heading south in the 3900 block of Guadalupe Street just after 6 a.m. when the biker on a 2009 Honda Shadow motorcycle, ...
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Tragedy strikes again for family
AUSTIN (KXAN) - For the second time in a matter of weeks, tragedy struck the same family. Jack Brown Henry, 59, died after crashing his motorcycle into a car early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street. The driver of a car involved in the deadly wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. Henry is the father of Alex Henry-Ballew , an 18-year-old who died after falling ...
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Texas Windstorm Insurance Group Expects Surplus
The nonprofit, state-supervised property insurance agency for coastal Texas counties is expected to shore up its finances by the end of the year, the group told a state House panel on June 17. Pete Gise, who handles the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s finances, said that after being in debt since 2012, the association projects it will see its first surplus by the end of the year. ...
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Corpus Christi police Man arrested after alcohol marijuana and gun found in car.
Corpus Christi police arrested a 19-year-old man who had marijuana, alcohol and a gun in his car Tuesday night, police said in a news release. Police said they pulled over a black 2007 Chevrolet Impala in the 1000 block of National Drive before 11 p.m. for a traffic violation. When the officer was speaking with the man, the officer saw a scale beneath the driver's feet. After a search ...
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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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