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Texas Sues Companies Connected to Macondo Oil Spill
The state of Texas filed a lawsuit Friday against BP plc, Transocean Ltd. and other parties involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages related to the affects of the oil spill. Texas is the fifth Gulf of Mexico state to file claims seeking lost tax revenue, lost revenue from state parks, damages to natural resources and civil penalties for each day that oil was spilled and ...
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Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas
Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...
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Texas Fires Shot Against The War On Christmas — In May
measure labeled the ';Merry Christmas bill,'; which is currentlyawaiting Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-TX) signature,provides that public school staff may ';offer traditional greetings'; including ';Merry Christmas'; or ';Happy Hanukkah'; to their students, and it permits school districts to ';display on school property scenes or symbols associated with ...
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Storm chasers following next line of storms in Texas
cold front that again is extremely slow-moving. so we're going to we keeping an eye on these storms throughout the rest of the afternoon. now is the time of day where these storms do continue to strengthen and fire up. the dark shade in yellow is an area where we do ...
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Dallas Stars to Reveal New Uniform Logo Next Month
Owner and Governor Tom Gaglardi, President and CEO Jim Lites, General Manager Jim Nill, Executive Advisor and Alternate Governor Mike Modano and Stars forward Jamie Benn will all be a part of the special ...
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Canseco To Play Again In Texas Starting This Week
Jose Canseco has been out of the game for a while, but he’s anxious to get back in (as anyone who’s been following his Twitter feed will know). As of Thursday, he’ll get his wish. The former Bash Brother will begin his stint with the Fort Worth Cats as a player and a coach. The first game, coincidentally, will be against Edinburg, which is managed by his brother Ozzie. ...
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Fitch Releases Report on Texas AM University System TX
U.S. Money Funds Return to Eurozone Banks U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April, although asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch Ratings. As of end-April 2013, MMF allocations to eurozone banks represented 15.1% of assets under management within Fitch Ratings'sample of the 10 largest U.S. ...
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Trapped Firefighter Dies 28-Year Veteran Killed in Texas
Firefighter Stanley Wilson was killed Monday during a six-alarm blaze at a Dallas condominium complex. Wilson was one of over 100 firefighters who responded to the 3 a.m. blaze at the Hearthwood North Condominiums.The complex was covered in flames as help arrived. Firefighters attempted an offensive attack before the fire began to rapidly increase, forcing them onto the defense. Wilson entered ...
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Tornado Watch is in effect until 10 pm for most of East Texas
From Staff ReportsThe National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 10 p.m. for Smith and 20 other counties in the region.The counties are Angelina, Cass, Gregg, Morris, Red River, San Augustine, Titus, Bowie, Cherokee, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Shelby, Upshur, Camp, Franklin, Marion, Panola, Sabine and ...
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Storms expected to hit East Texas this evening
fharper@tylerpaper.com The main line of storms is expected to hit East Texas between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. today, Doc Deason, with KYTX CBS 19 meteorologist.Deason said the primary concerns with the main storm line is the possibility of damaging winds and hail, which could be between half an inch to golf ...
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Army major found dead at Texas military base
Sam Houston in San Antonio, Army officials say. The officer was not immediately identified pending notification of family, and an Army statement did not give a possible cause of death, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday. The base's firefighters discovered the officer about 7 a.m. Monday while responding to a call about a water leak, the statement said. He was found in his room ...
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Texas couple charged with injury to adoptive son who died
A Texas couple have been charged with injury to a child, their 4-year-old adoptive son who died in March. David and Angela Cook of Cleburne were arrested Monday, ...
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Dallas to build shopping strip to complement convention center
The Dallas Convention Center and the Omni Hotel are connected in downtown Dallas. Dallas city leaders are hoping a new 15,000 square-foot strip of retail and restaurants they are planning to build near the Dallas Convention Center will help the city attract more businesses. It's all part of a bigger plan that includes a 350-space parking garage, pedestrian streetscapes and streetcars. The ...
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Mesquite provides information on severe weather
Mesquite, TX - May 21, 2013 - Today, the National Weather Service out of Fort Worth is predicting that conditions are right in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area for strong to severe storms to develop this afternoon into the evening hours as the storms move across from the northwest to the southeast. These storms have the potential to produce very high winds and large, damaging hail. There is ...
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Texas Emerging Technology Fund slated to get $50M
The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be allocated $50 million for the next biennium. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be replenished with $50 million for the next two years, based on a new budget deal, the Austin American Statesman reports. Although this falls below Gov. Rick Perrys request of $69.5 million for the ETF for the next two years, the amount is still a ...
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Fort Worth Implements Stage 1 Water Restrictions
"The watering restrictions apply to all 225,000 Fort Worth retail accounts, including those outside the city limits. It also applies to wholesale customers, the other entities that purchase treated water and resell it. In accordance with their contract, wholesale customers must enact the same restrictions as Fort Worth. The wholesale customers that regularly purchase water are Aledo, ...
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Texas senior 18 bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator ...
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Despite rain water restrictions coming to North Texas
The Tarrant Regional Water District will implement mandatory water restrictions June 3, limiting irrigation to twice a week for most Tarrant County cities. It feels strange to talk about water restrictions with thunderstorm clouds on the horizon but hey, this is Texas. Most cities in North Texas will have to observe mandatory water restrictions in June if they aren't already. The Tarrant ...
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Park Gates at City Place in Dallas gets new owner
Park Gates at City Place was sold by The Connor Group to a new investor. In the second property sale this month, Ohio-based The Connor Group has sold Park Gates at City Place, a 228-unit apartment property in East Dallas. Terms of the deal, including the investor purchasing the property, were undisclosed, a company official told me Tuesday. The Connor Group owned the East Dallas property for six ...
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Former Texas Marine kidnapped in Mexico
Armando Torres, 27 A former Marine from Texas who served for seven years has been kidnapped by armed men in Mexico, his family said.Armando Torres, 27, crossed the Los Indios Bridge in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday night to visit his dad and was supposed to return Wednesday morning.Torres' uncle, Eduardo Torres, says he's worried and claims he and two other family members from Mexico ...
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Many Texas women getting more invasive breast biopsy
Many women getting breast surgical biopsy instead less invasive biopsy. A pink ribbon to recognize breast cancer awareness hangs on the North Portico of the White House in Washington. UPI/Kevin ...
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Texas authorities issue warrant for Richmond pastor
RICHMOND -- A warrant for the arrest of Geronimo Aguilar, senior pastor of the Richmond Outreach Center, has been issued but it is not clear whether it has been served or if Aguilar is in custody, according to sources familiar with the ...
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Mesquite police investigating early morning shooting
Police received a call at 1:59 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, about loud sounds of an argument and multiple gunshots at the Peachtree Apartments, 1402 S. Peachtree. When police arrived they found one victim, Roinico Harris, a black male born in 1979, in the driver's seat of a vehicle with injuries from a gunshot wound.Harris was transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas and is currently in ...
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Deadly tornado rips apart Oklahoma town severe weather in north Texas
Severe weather building three miles outside of Muenster, Texas Monday evening. Storms plagued north central Texas for hours after a deadly tornado killed 24 people in Moore, Okla. Photo by James ...
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Officials Fear Texas Tornado Death Toll May Rise
Multiple tornadoes, flash floods and huge hail hit North Texas hard on Wednesday. At least six people dead and more are missing, and officials fear the death toll could rise. Storm chasers 40 miles west of Fort Worth braved the weather to capture dramatic video of a tornado touchdown. In all, 10 tornadoes slammed into North Texas as part of a massive system that spawned severe thunderstorms. ...
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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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