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Dallas Police Hiring 200 New Officers
"We have officers retiring, we have officers leaving the department and this is what we do annually," Sgt. George Aranda with Dallas police ...
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Fitch Rates Galena Park ISD Texas ULT Rfdg Bonds AAA PSFAA+ Underlying Outlook Stable
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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The King has risen Tribute artist brings a dose of Elvis to Metroplex
Photos courtesy David Allen - Elvis tribute artist David Allen brings his "Elvis: The Experience" show to Rodeo City Music Hall at 7 p.m. this Saturday. Allen is one of the 25 finalists in the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist ...
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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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Police Looking for Two Men Wanted in Aggravated Robbery
The first robbery happened on June 11 at Stevie's Car Wash on Industrial Boulevard. In a news release, police said the men parked in an open bay at the car wash at 2:15 ...
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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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Baby Abducted From Alabama Found in Dallas
An Alabama teenager was charged Wednesday with abducting a 10-month-old boy who was found safe in Texas almost two days after being taken from a home in Birmingham, police ...
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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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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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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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Minor improvements in drought across Texas
60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought conditions as of Wednesday, officials said. 60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought ...
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Decherd to retire from Dallas-based AH Belo
DALLAS -; The CEO of Dallas-based A.H. Belo (BEE'-loh) Corporation plans to retire in September and will become vice chairman of the board of ...
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The Supreme Courts Decision In Salinas v. Texas Implications For White Collar Investigations
U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At the outset of a white collar investigation, counsel will invariably advise the client that if a government investigator unexpectedly appears seeking to "just ask a few questions," the client should politely decline and direct the investigator to counsel. Although the Supreme Court's decision this past Monday, June 17, ...
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Will Summer Blackouts Doom The Texas Boom
NRG's Green Mountain Energy wind farm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Texas has been an economic powerhouse in recent years. Gross domestic product in the Lone Star State, which hit $1.2 trillion before the recession, is ...
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Snakes on a plane Texas man smuggles 7 live serpents
TYLER, Texas Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm. An East Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling snakes on several planes from South America to the United States. During a court hearing Wednesday in Tyler, William Lamar pleaded guilty to importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign ...
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Maserati dealership zooming into Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Dallas-based Park Place Dealerships marked the start of construction on a multimillion-dollar Maserati dealership in southwest Fort Worth by bringing four of the Italian carmaker’s finest models from its Dallas location and revving up the engines during a groundbreaking ceremony ...
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Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition and Environmental Defense Fund Reach Milestone Agreements With NRG Texas on Limestone Station Expansion
Environmental Defense Fund media contact: Chris Smith, 512.691.3451 TCACC media contacts: Frank J. Librio (Director, Public Information Office, City of Dallas) 214.670.3322 Frank Michel (Director of Communications, City of Houston) 832.393.0800 NRG media contacts: Meredith Moore 609.524.4522 David Knox (Texas) 713.795.6106 NRG Investor Relations contacts: Nahla Azmy ...
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Adelaide celebrates 30th anniversary of its sister city relationship with Austin Texas
A BULL-RIDING machine, roller derby displays and food vans will take over Hindmarsh Square on Thursday as Adelaide celebrates the 30th anniversary of its sister city relationship with Austin, the capital of Texas. Acting Lord Mayor Michael Llewellyn-Smith said the anniversary was "a really significant milestone worthy of celebration" with the Hey Sister Festival on Thursday. "Austin ...
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Texas Prison Cools Armory Not Living Space Lawsuit Alleges 13 Heatstroke Deaths Due To Lack Of Air Conditioning
As many as 13 Texas prisoners died from heatstroke since 2007 according to a lawsuit that questions how administrators decided to allocate the much-valued commodity of conditioned air in oppressive Texas ...
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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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