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During holiday 2.9 million Texans expected to leave home
Memorial Day holiday travel is expected to be up from last year, and local law enforcement officers are expected to be looking for suspected intoxicated drivers.AAA Texas anticipates 2.9 million Texans to travel more than 50 miles from home to celebrate the holiday. The number is up 1.1 percent from the same five-day travel period in 2012, according to a news release from AAA Texas.Top surveyed ...
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Veterans leave Texas for tour of national monuments in D.C.
Thirty veterans of the armed forces taking part in the Brookshire’s/Super 1 Foods World War II Heroes Flight departed Thursday morning for their trip.This is the sixth such trip sponsored by Brookshire Grocery Co.The Heroes Flight, which returns late Saturday, is a three-day whirlwind tour of monuments, memorials and museums in the nation’s capital.';As Americans, we owe these ...
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Church records and computers in Fort Worth genealogy May 24-26
genealogy and local history department that includes a print and microfilm collection. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and 2-6 p.m. Sunday. Address is 101 E. Abram St., 817-459-6900. All year: ...
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Pope Tweets Request for Prayers After Explosion in Texas
Search for Survivors Still OnBy StaffHOUSTON, TEXAS, April 18, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis is encouraging prayer after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas on Wednesday night killed as many as 15 people and wounded more than 160 others.The Holy Father exhorted the faithful to pray via his Twitter account, @pontifex."Please join me in praying for the victims of the explosion in ...
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Roger Staubachs former home lands on the Dallas market
The former home of Roger Staubach and his family has an expansive patio with swimming pool for family events. Roger Staubach's former family home in North Dallas has landed on the market, with an asking price of $1.1 million. The home on a large cul-de-sac lot at 6912 Edelweiss Circle is 8,708 square feet of living space, with five bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms. It is one of the ...
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Fort Worth League of Legends Examiner changes directions
League of Legends Examiner, Chris Wahl, has decided to change directions with his articles. He is doing away with his fairly haphazard approach to writing ...
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Texas could stiffen penalty for attacks on emergency room workers under bill awaiting governors signature
The bill awaiting the governor's signature mandates felony charges for those who assault emergency room workers as hospitals document an increase in such ...
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Vacant Hospital to Be Become Mental Health Clinic
A hospital that stood empty for years is getting a new life and hopefully giving its neighborhood an economic boost. The city of Garland is working on a deal to reopen Vista Hospital on Walnut ...
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Oklahoma Parents Teachers Reunite After Deadly Tornado
Students and teachers from the two elementary schools in Moore, Okla. were finally reunited after a deadly tornado ripped through the area on ...
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Census Numbers Show Collin County Still Growing
Numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show Collin County cities are once again leading North Texas and the nation in population ...
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Stolen iPads Tracking App Helps Solve Case
Apple's Find My iPad app is built into most of its devices. The app, which uses the company's iCloud service, allows users who have turned on "track my device" mode to map on a computer where the device is at any ...
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Row between U.S. agencies over Texas plant explosion deepens
(Reuters) - A dispute between government agencies over the investigation into the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant intensified on Thursday when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives hit back after being criticized by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board ...
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Houston Man Charged with Threatening to Bomb Synagogues
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office Dante Phearse, 32, is being charged with one count of using an instrument of interstate commerce to communicate a threat to destroy a building by means of an explosive ...
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DISD Board Takes Up Superintendents Reform Plans
The superintendent's plan would replace dozens of Dallas Independent School District principals, most through voluntary retirement or ...
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Former Texas Police Officer Ordered to Federal Prison for Deprivation of Civil Rights
WASHINGTON-Frank Carter, 43, a former officer with the Laredo, Texas Police Department (LPD), has been sentenced to prison following his conviction for violating the civil rights of an arrestee, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Carter pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Today, U.S. District Judge Diana ...
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Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek
DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...
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Health Officials Decry Texas Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions
Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the opening session of the Texas Legislature in Austin earlier this year. The state of Texas is turning down billions of federal dollars that would have paid for health care coverage for 1.5 million poor Texans. By refusing to participate in Medicaid expansion, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, the state will leave on the table an estimated $100 ...
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Texas Medical Association launches physician services group
Dr. Russell Kridel, president of Harris County Medical Society, said the new physician group will provide doctors with tools to provide better and more efficient care. The Texas Medical Association has teamed up with some of the states largest medical societies to create the Physician Services Organization for Patient Care. The organization aims to deliver tools to help physicians perform better ...
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Velocis buys Uptown Dallas office tower
Dallas-based real estate investment firm Velocis has purchased 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Dallas-based real estate investment fund Velocis, along with its investors, has bought 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas for an undisclosed sum. The 145,610-square-foot Class A office building is in a highly-desired submarket, where tenants can walk to a number of amenities, said Mike Lewis, ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Texas Joins Flood of States Suing BP over 2010 Gulf Spill
Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and others ';engaged in willful and wanton misconduct'; for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ...
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Texas GOP Introduced At Least 24 Anti-Abortion Bills This Year But Not A Single One Advanced
Over the past several years, Texas lawmakers have kept themselves busy by launching multiple attacks on women’s health. In 2011 and 2012, state ...
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Exclusive Energy firm expands HQ relocates within Dallas
Longtime Dallas energy firm Solomon Associates is moving its headquarters to One Lincoln Centre in June. Dallas-based Solomon Associates, a performance improvement company for the global energy industry, is expanding and relocating its headquarters within the city limits. The longtime Dallas-based company has signed a lease for 28,860 square feet of office space at One Lincoln Centre on the ...
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Southlake Murder Victim Was Drug Cartel Attorney
gunned down execution-style at the Southlake Town Center Wednesday was an attorney linked to a major Mexican drug cartel who had been living with his family in a secure, gated community with his wife and at least one ...
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Census Texas has 8 of 15 fastest-growing cities in U.S.
Census Bureau says. Only Texas had more than one city among the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country with populations of more than 50,000 in 2012, the Bureau said in a report released Thursday. The Texas city of San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio, had the highest rate of growth. Other Texas cities on the list were sprinkled around the state. New York topped the list of ...
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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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