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Panther purchases Fort Worth apartment portfolio
Investors continue to purchase apartment properties, as the market remains strong for the real estate. The Coventry at Cityview apartments in Fort Worth, seen above, were sold to an investment group in the past month. Fort Worth-based Panther FW Investments LLC, formerly Panther Transaction Group, has bought a two-property, apartment portfolio totaling 528 apartment homes in Fort Worth. Terms of ...
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Austin gas prices hold steady as national numbers jump
Austin gas prices are 15 cents less per gallon than the same day one year ago. The average price per gallon for gasoline in Austin on Sunday was $3.38, just 0.4 cents less than the week before. Reports from GasBuddy.com show national prices jumping 8.9 cents over the last week to $3.67. Recent increases across the U.S. are breaking records in states such as Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas, ...
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Tornadoes Possible Monday From Michigan to Texas After Oklahoma Storms Kill 2
Pets were rescued Monday from the rubble of mobile homes destroyed by Sunday's tornado in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, near Shawnee, Okla., May 20, ...
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Tesoro Logistics reduces purchase price for Chevron pipeline in wake of spill
Tesoro Logistics LP has renegotiated the purchase price for Chevron Pipe Line's Northwest Products System down to $355 million from $400 million. San Antonio-based pipeline operator Tesoro Logistics LP said it has renegotiated its purchase of Chevron Pipe Line Co.s Northwest Products System, cutting the price to $355 million from $400 million. The reduction comes after a fuel spill that ...
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Recount shows Pelican Bay council candidates are still tied
liz@star-telegram.com Pelican Bay voters will have to make another trip to the polls next month after a recount still showed a tie vote in the Place 4 council ...
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Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
ATLANTA -; A national atheist group says it will place its literature in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles in ...
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Veteran firefighter killed in huge Dallas condo fire
A huge six-alarm fire killed a veteran fire fighter and destroyed at least 24 different housing units in the early morning hours of May 20th in a Dallas, Texas complex of condos. (Wikimedia/Wikimedia ...
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Man charged with stealing 15 cell phones at bar
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A man charged with taking cell phones out of womens purses was arrested early Saturday morning at a bar on East Sixth Street. Josue Vivar-Hernandez, 28, is accused of being in possession of an estimated 15 stolen cell phones. He was detained shortly after 2 a.m. at the bar Aquarium after manager Tyler Carr told police he saw the suspect snatching phones out of the purses of ...
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Brandywine REIT selling an interest in its big Austin portfolio
The Barton Skyway complex on South Mopac Expressway is being shopped around by Brandywine Real Estate Investment Trust. Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) has placed its Austin suburban office portfolio on the market with an unusual marketing proposition. The publicly traded real estate trust is looking for an investor who wants to share ownership in the 1.4 million-square-foot ...
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Dallas Firefighter Killed in the Line of Duty www.privateofficer.com
One firefighter was killed and two others were injured in a six-alarm blaze that has devoured at least 24 units at the Hearthwood North Condominiums at 12363 Abrams Road, near LBJ Freeway overnight. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the firefighter, who has been identified as 28-year department veteran Stanley Wilson, radioed in shortly before 5:30 a.m. that he was trapped and lost, ...
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Confirmation hearing dominated by Powers questions
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The future of University of Texas President Bill Powers dominated Monday's confirmation hearing for three members of the system board of regents, with one lawmaker saying he believes the board is "on a mission" to oust the popular leader of the Austin ...
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House member kills senators bills in tit-for-tat
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A member of the Texas House is killing bills authored by a Houston senator in retaliation for her opposition to an exoneration ...
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Drought freeze hail pummel Central Texas peaches
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A combination of weather events have Central Texas peach farmers expecting a meager crop once again this season, after several years of little yield due to whimsical ...
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Texas DPS adds patrols for Memorial Day weekend
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- More Texas troopers will be on patrol over the Memorial Day weekend watching for speeders, drunken drivers and travelers not wearing seat ...
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Fort Bliss identifies soldier killed in blast
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Military officials have identified the third Fort Bliss soldier killed recently in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive ...
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Ryan Kimura 40 Under 40 honor aided in job search
40 Under 40 honors businesspeople under the age of 40 for their success. Being honored by the Dallas Business Journal in 2011 helped cement in my mind that moving to Dallas was the right decision for me and my career. I moved to Dallas in late 2008 with no contacts or connections in DFW and within two years, I was being honored on the DBJ's list of 40 under 40. I think what made the most ...
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Texas Oklahoma Battle Opioids With Legislation
Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp In the South Central region, Texas and Oklahoma are two states where the battle against opioid abuse among injured workers is being taken up by lawmakers. Both states have seen new bills introduced to curb abuse by raising standards for use of evidence-based medicine, and stricter regulation of drug dispensing doctors and clinics. Oklahoma Oklahoma ...
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Classroom curriculum system dies amid criticism
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A classroom curriculum system used by hundreds of Texas school districts will stop offering lesson plans after some conservative groups claimed it was promoting anti-American values.State Sen. Dan Patrick said Monday that officials who created the system known as CSOPE will vote to scrap thousands of lesson plans this week, effectively killing the entire system.CSCOPE ...
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Study Poverty in Austin suburbs rises sharply
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A new publication reveals the Austin metro area over the course of a decade saw the nation's second-fastest increase in the number of poor people living in the suburbs.The findings by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. is part of a book being released Monday that argues poverty is shifting from inner cities to America's suburbs.The Austin ...
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Dell committee wants more info from buyout group
Dell Inc. wants more information again from the investor group challenging CEO Michael Dells shareholder buyout. The companys special committee formed to consider buyout offers has asked billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. for more details about their takeover plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer maker in the ...
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Tornadoes possible this afternoon forecasters warn
billhanna@star-telegram.com The chance of storms Monday in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Monday is only about 25 percent but forecasters warn this is not the day to be lulled into a false sense of ...
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Though a minority Democrats prevail on school funds
AUSTIN — From Day One of the 2013 Legislature, outnumbered Democrats repeatedly committed themselves to an overarching goal: restoring billions of dollars in education cuts imposed by lawmakers two years ...
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Pedestrian killed by motorist on Grand Prairie street
Naiim Betha, 19, of Grand Prairie, was walking on a bridge over Kirby Creek when he was hit by a pickup, police said. Betha was hit and thrown over the bridge and fell about 19 feet into the creek bed where he was pronounced dead at the ...
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Many agencies rely on lie detectors despite errors in measurement
WASHINGTON — Police departments and federal agencies nationwide are using a type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem that could label truthful people as liars or the guilty as innocent, McClatchy has ...
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El Paso Summer Entertainment Calendar Promises a Hot Time
One thing we know about summer in El Paso: It's gonna get hot. Real hot. Another thing we know: Several traditions -- new and old -- will heat up around here. Music Under the Stars, the diverse free concert series at the Chamizal National Memorial, turns 30 this year. El Paso Playhouse, the little community theater that could, turns 50. Heck, that's as old as the Rolling ...
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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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