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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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Shark Attacks Teen In Texas Waters
A 15-year old boy was attacked by a shark off the Texas Gulf coast on Monday afternoon while swimming with his church group. The boy was swimming in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach when the shark began biting his legs; he reportedly began trying to fight it off by beating it with his hands, and was bitten on the left hand for his troubles. Luckily, his friends saw what was happening and came ...
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U.S. oil prices ease back
The price for a barrel of crude oil slid under $98 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Tuesday morning. World leaders in Northern Ireland, meeting for a Group of Eight summit, have been discussing the crisis in Syria, which has raised concern of a possible disruption in crude oil supplies from the region. Traders are also waiting for the results of a two-day monetary policy meeting ...
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Texas poll Cruz favored for 2016
If Texas Republicans had their druthers, another Lone Star State leader would run for the White House in 2016 - but they prefer freshman Sen. Ted Cruz over longtime Gov. Rick Perry for the job.According to ...
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Texas Senate set for votes on transportation abortion
AUSTIN -- The Texas Senate returns to Austin for scheduled votes on new transportation funding and abortion restrictions. The transportation bill requires a constitutional amendment to use some oil and gas severance taxes to pay for road and bridge building and maintenance. That money now goes into the state's reserve fund. Texas leaders say the state is critically underfunded to meet ...
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Maps clear Texas House panel
Legislators literally mapping out the state’s political future on Monday voted out of a committee the result Gov. Rick Perry had hoped for: the district maps already in ...
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Texas governor courts Conn. gun makers dissatisfied by gun-control laws that followed Newtown
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted Connecticut gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Perry shot at a firing range at Connecticut's venerable Colt Manufacturing Co., one of the plants he ...
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South Texas Botanical Gardens Nature Center offers summer nature camps
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Michael Womack (from left), executive director of the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center, shows brothers Caleb, 5, and Luke Oden, 7, a caterpillar Monday during a Kids Summer Nature Camp. The center is offering half-day weeklong camps throughout the summer which include nature walks and arts and craft projects. This week’s camp still has ...
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As lose 8-7 in opener of 4-game series at Texas
Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin, left, pulls starter Dan Straily,right, in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Monday, June 17, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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MLB Texas 8 Oakland 7
Texas Rangers outlast Oakland 8-7. Cruz finished 3-for-4, belting a solo homer in the fourth and a go-ahead two-run shot in the seventh. He added a run-scoring double in the seventh for an 8-6 lead, which turned out to be the decisive tally. Pierzynski, meanwhile, launched a two-run shot in the second inning to open the scoring and supplied a game-tying two-bagger for the Rangers, who took the ...
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New Fort Worth micro-brewery to launch sales at Central Market
Martin House Brewing Co ., found just across the Trinity River from downtown Fort Worth, was humming Friday as it cranked up its tiny Canadian-made canning line for the first time to fill and seal three 16-ounce cans at a time, hand-stacked by two of the operation’s partners and two ...
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2 North Texas men charged with neglecting pony
SPRINGTOWN, Texas (AP) -- Two North Texas men are facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly neglecting a Shetland pony that was malnourished, suffering from an infected wound and living in squalid ...
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Dallas Starts Mosquito Spraying
The city of Dallas has scheduled spraying for mosquitoes, while mosquito samples collected in Flower Mound have tested positive for West Nile ...
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Garland Sandwich Shop Petitions City to Serve Alcohol Near Church
The owners of a Garland sandwich shop have petitioned to serve alcohol in an effort to transform business into a neighborhood bar. The shop sits across the street from a church and a charter school is only a few blocks away. In Garland, alcohol cannot be served within 300 feet of a church, public school or ...
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Benefit for Officers Family Takes Over Restaurant
Less than a month after McKinney police officer John Libby died in a motorcycle accident in Frisco, a local restaurant held a fundraiser and the community turned out to help the wife and two children he left ...
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Shark attacks teen in Texas
HOUSTON, TX - A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast, local police said. The 15-year-old started beating the shark with both hands after it had bitten his lower left leg, according to Surfside Assistant Police Chief Gregg Bisso. The shark then bit the teen on the left hand. Kids from his church group, who were ...
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Texas woman arrested in latest bar-scam theft
FORT LAUDERDALE— — Cash and a watch worth $12,500 were stolen from a South Florida man in what appeared to be the latest instance of bar-hopping temptresses scamming men they go home with.Travis Kania, 42, ...
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Tropical depression could cause rough waters on South Texas beaches
COASTAL BEND -- The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on tropical depression No. 2, which is expected to move inland over southern Belize Monday afternoon. As of Monday morning, the National Weather Service reported winds of 35 mph and the fast moving storm (13 mph). The depression is expected to reform in the Bay of Campeche Tuesday. When it does, the depression could strengthen ...
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Mesquite SWAT team arrests barricaded suspect
Shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, June 17, Mesquite police responded to a shooting call in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Hickory Tree ...
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Irving Kids Fight the Bite Against West Nile Virus
A summer camp in Irving is urging children to fight the bite. The city's goal is to have 1,000 students actively fighting mosquitoes that can carry West Nile ...
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Lunas Tortilla Factory Destroyed in Fire
The Luna family has been making tortillas in Greater Dallas for nearly a century. The business, which started in 1924 with Maria Luna making about 500 pieces of the flatbread every day, has a factory that makes 800 dozen tortillas per hour and distributes them to more than 250 local and national restaurants and ...
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Two Springtown men face animal cruelty charges involving pony
ramirez@star-telegram.com SPRINGTOWN A Shetland pony is fighting to stay alive Monday after animal control officers found him last week “extremely malnourished, severely underweight and fighting an infected wound,” the Parker County sheriff ...
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Texas rolls back student testing for a second time
Investigative Editor, NBC News Texas, the state that pioneered high-stakes testing for public schools, is continuing to roll back its extensive series of student assessments, with Gov. Rick Perry signing a bill that would exempt high performers from taking some ...
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Texas becomes first state to require warrant for e-mail snooping
HB 2268 , effective immediately. The law shields residents of the Lone Star State from snooping by state and local law enforcement without a warrant. The bill was sponsored ...
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4 killed in “horrific” wreck in south Tarrant County identified
billhanna@star-telegram.com A mother, a daughter, a local youth minister and the stranded motorist they were trying to help were identified Monday as the four people killed in a “horrific” multi-vehicle crash last weekend in southern Tarrant ...
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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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