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High winds derail 47 BNSF cars in Texas Panhandle
Faust says 47 cars that were empty or carrying various freight derailed before dawn Monday. He says 42 cars ended up on their sides. No cargo spilled from the 71-car train traveling from Clovis, N.M., to ...
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Cantwell Elected President of Austin Association of Insurance Professionals
The Austin Association of Insurance Professionals (AAIP) announced that Kimmi Cantwell, with McGowan, Donnelly & Oberheu LLC has been elected president of the group for 2013/2014. Also elected ...
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Rain is mostly done for the day in North Texas warm temperatures ahead
For the second consecutive morning, storms packed with booming thunder and an extreme lightning show arrived in North Texas Tuesday morning before the rush hour. Rainfall totals were about a half-inch across much of the ...
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Affidavit Gunmen targeted teen in Fort Worth shooting killed boy instead
FORT WORTH — Two gunmen, one armed with an assault rifle and the other with a handgun, sprayed a Fort Worth house with bullets earlier this month trying to kill a teen, but they gunned down a 12-year-old boy who had been standing on a driveway, an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Star-Telegram on Tuesday ...
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Rick Perry Goes to War Against Connecticut
Rick Perry, the Texas governor and 2012 "oops" presidential candidate, is spending the beginning of this week in Connecticut. Perry, as the governor of Texas, has little on-its-face reason to be in Connecticut. Except, of course, for one: Texas's unemployment rate, which at 6.4 percent in April is significantly lower than the national average, is still not quite ideal. Perry wants ...
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Fitch Rates Texas Veterans 2010B GO Bank Bonds AAA Outlook Stable
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to bank bonds corresponding to the following series of State of Texas general obligation (GO) veterans bonds: --$62,485,000 State of Texas GO veterans bonds, series 2010B. The ratings are being assigned in conjunction with the execution of a substitute liquidity agreement in the form of a ...
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Texas police identify 2 men killed in dispute
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Police in North Texas have identified two men fatally shot following a weekend altercation between groups of people in separate ...
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Congressman Labor Department expanded wage rule without public comment
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing this morning that the Labor Department expanded the reach of Davis-Bacon Act without public comment earlier this year. Davis-Bacon is a law that requires contractors engaged in any federally-funded construction project to affirm that they are paying workers the prevailing local wage. Big Business dislikes ...
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Support falling in polls Harry Reid announces rush to pass immigration bill
new poll showing falling support for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final, up-or-down vote on passing the bill by the end of next week. "I'm just telling everybody that we're going to either file cloture on this on Friday or Saturday or Sunday or ...
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First look The amendment that could decide the fate of immigration reform
As the Senate debate over the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill reaches full speed this week, leading Democrats have pronounced the border security amendment proposed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn a "non-starter." To break through what could become a deadlock, other GOP senators have been working on an alternative border security proposal to strengthen the bill in a ...
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Man robs two banks in less than an hour
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A bank robber managed to hit two separate banks in Austin on Tuesday in less than an hour. The robber hit Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research Blvd. in North Austin at 10 a.m. and then the Frost Bank in the 1200 block of Barbara Jordan Boulevard in Central Austin at 10:40 a.m. Police said the robber ran away from both banks, though no one knew in which direction he went each ...
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Police head to Prosperity Bank robbery
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police responded to a bank robbery in North Austin. A robber hit the Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research ...
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San Antonio leads 3-2
SAN ANTONIO -- Manu Ginobili had 24 points and 10 assists in a surprise start to spark the San Antonio Spurs to a 114-104 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, pushing the Spurs one victory away from their fifth championship. Danny Green scored 24 points and broke Ray Allen's finals record for 3s in a series with 25. Tony Parker had 26 points for San ...
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FEMA Denies Texas Aid to Rebuild Town After Fertilizer Blast
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it won't provide U.S. aid to help rebuild the town in Texas where an April fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people and leveled nearby buildings. In a June 10 letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, FEMA's administrator said that while the agency had made payments to individuals affected by the blast, a major disaster ...
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Red Lobsters Corpus Christi location gets new look menu
The Corpus Christi restaurant at 5825 Padre Island Drive has been restyled with a New England coastal appeal, according to a news ...
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Get first look at new UT medical school
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Your tax dollars will help pay for a major medical endeavor in Austin: a medical school for the University of Texas. The location of the teaching hospital will be next to the Frank Erwin Center and the existing University of Medical Center Brackenridge, where officials unveiled the first renderings of the medical school Tuesday. Construction begins next year, with completion ...
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Railroad museum in El Paso needs new home
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A railroad museum in West Texas has left a locomotive behind after being evicted in a rental dispute at a city-operated ...
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Thieves in hazmat suits rob Texas jewelry store
THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) -- Thieves wearing white hazardous materials suits and masks often used by painters have robbed a Houston-area jewelry ...
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Woman vs Carjacker Texas Mom Punched Ran Over Thief to Protect Kids
A woman and a carjacker's interaction is all over the news after the mother of six managed not only to fight him off, but hit him with her car Friday. The Texas mother saw her children's life in danger when the man attacked her and resolved to do whatever she could to keep her children safe. The woman's carjacker was Ismael Martinez, and he managed to sneak into the minivan while ...
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Texas Republican Says He Wants to Ban Abortion Because ... Fetuses Masturbate
's Adele Stan reports that Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said that fetuses at 15-weeks "stroke their face. If they're a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?" Burgess is a former OB-GYN. The comments came as the House of Representatives prepared to debate a bill that would outlaw ...
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Watch Shark Bites Teens Hand Leg at Texas Beach
-- Timmy -- Dublin arrived at Surfside beach this afternoon at family -- so there was an unsettling scene. We've -- like the helipad there -- a light lights that just a short time before a ...
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Utility work to affect traffic on Thames Drive starting Wednesday
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Thames Drive will be closed at the Williams Drive intersection from Wednesday to Friday, June 28 as contractors complete utility work. Drivers should expect delays and if possible seek alternate routes or avoid the area. Drivers will have access to their driveways. Information: ...
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Windstorm Association Board meeting underway in Austin
AUSTIN -- Funding for the 2013 hurricane season is at the forefront of the agenda for a board meeting of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association this morning in Austin. The association, a quasi-public insurer of last resort for wind and hailstorm coverage on the Texas coast, is in the process of seeking about a half-billion in additional funding for the storm season via a Bond Anticipation ...
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TxDOT road work projects in Coastal Bend 06.17.13
Live Oak County Farm-to-Market Road 882, Monday-Tuesday, Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.: Traffic controls will be in place for edge work from Karnes County live to Bee County line. US 281, Monday-Tuesday, Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.: Traffic control will be in place for road leveling from Jim Wells Co. line to George ...
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Churches split on what to do about Scout sponsorship
tevans@star-telegram.com Nancy Zey is heartbroken about the impending end of a 10-year relationship between her sons’ Cub Scout pack ...
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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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