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Flamingos ready for pick up at South Texas Botanical Gardens Nature Center
photos by Paul Iverson/Special to the Caller-Times Artist Tracy Mazour decorated these "Flockettes" for the annual Flamingo Fandango ...
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Fort Worth considering new pay arrangement for injured officer
FORT WORTH — The city is considering withdrawing extended leave pay for a police officer who remains paralyzed after being shot on the job more than 10 years ago, a move that would effectively force her into medical retirement and pare what she makes today, the officer and the president of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association said ...
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Texas-based Airmans Family Takes Steps to Help Tornado Victims
By Air Force Airman 1st Class John D. Partlow47th Flying Training Wing LAUGHLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, May 22, 2013 Efforts to help people who were injured or lost their homes began almost immediately after a deadly tornado struck Moore, Okla., May 20. One of those willing to help was Air Force Tech. Sgt. Shane Buss, the 47th Flying Training Wing's equal opportunity noncommissioned ...
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Texas bill that modifies concealed handgun licenses moves to House
AUSTIN -- Concealed handgun license holders in Texas would be allowed to carry a revolver or semi-automatic pistol, regardless of what they trained with on the shooting range under a bill advancing in the Texas Legislature. Current law certifies license holders to carry only the type of gun they used to get their license. The bill by Sen. Craig Estes, a Wichita Falls Republican, would allow ...
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Massive tornadoes that hit Oklahoma Texas blamed on stubborn jet stream
View results The same weather phenomenon that brought unusually cold temperatures to the East Coast this spring is being blamed for the massive and devastating tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma this week: A jet stream that refused to leave.Weather forecasters tracked this year’s jet stream - the pattern of high-altitude winds - as moving farther south, and staying farther south, for a ...
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Even small business is bigger in Texas
As more entrepreneurs flock to the state, experts are pointing to a combination of growth-friendly conditions that have small businesses growing in, and messing with, ...
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Boy Scouts to open two-day meeting in Texas to decide whether to allow openly gay Scouts
GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform. Officials of the Irving, Texas-based organization are scheduled to open the first of the ballots cast on whether to allow openly gay Scouts. Scouting officials propose allowing openly gay Scouts ...
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Charge investigation of Texas fertilizer blast hampered by in-fighting
The federal safety agency investigating the West Fertilizer Company explosion in Texas has accused other investigators of hampering his agency's work. Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a letter that the Texas state fire marshal and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blocked access to key witnesses for three weeks after the April ...
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Texas to drug screen unemployment benefit recipients
Individuals in Texas who receive unemployment benefits will soon be subjected to drug testing, as a result of the passage of Senate Bill 21. Small-business advocates in Texas are hailing the passage of a bill that would allow drug testing for recipients who receive unemployment insurance benefits. Business owners are paying into a fund thats become increasingly expensive, NFIB/Texas Executive ...
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Feds vs. feds over Texas blast
Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel’s chairman said.In a May 17 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso asked the California Democrat to help the board ...
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Retired pathologist believes in cancer society
Cancer is central to Peschel’s earliest medical experience, when she was one of three women in the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, supporting herself as a ...
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Chemical Safety Board says ATF Texas fire marshal blocking its probe of fatal plant blast
WACO, Texas - Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel's chairman said. In a May 17 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso asked the California Democrat to ...
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Minister now in Virginia accused of child sexual assault in the 1990s in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — The pastor of a Richmond, Va., church was arrested Tuesday on warrants issued in Fort Worth accusing him of sexually assaulting two girls in the ...
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Airlines Issue Warning About Postcards Promising Free Travel
Postcards touting American Airlines and Delta logos are enticing North Texans with offers of free vacations, but both airlines said they have nothing to do with the cards and consumers should ...
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From Lewisville With Love Okla. Tornado Donations
A Lewisville woman whose brother lost his home in the Oklahoma tornado asked for donations for the victims -- and is overwhelmed by the response from friends, neighbors and even ...
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Dallas Stars to unveil new uniform logo in rebranding effort
The Dallas Stars plan to unveil a new uniform, as well as a new logo, next month. The Dallas Stars plan to update the team's look with a new uniform design, as well as a new logo in a rebranding effort aimed at bringing renewed attention to the National Hockey League club. Ever since Stars Owner Tom Gaglardi purchased the team a year-and-a-half ago, the club has been working on a rebranding ...
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North Texas spared major damage Tuesday as storms roll through
A day earlier, a deadly EF5 tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. And closer to home last week, smaller tornadoes inflicted heavy damage on Granbury and ...
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National Briefing | Southwest Texas House Votes to Ban Medicaid Expansion
Rick Perry notified the Obama administration last summer that his state would not expand Medicaid. The House measure, which is an amendment to a Medicaid-related bill, says state officials "may not provide medical assistance to any person who would not have been eligible for that assistance" under the criteria already in effect. A version without the amendment has passed the Senate, ...
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Chemical-safety watchdog criticizes probe of Texas blast
(Reuters) - Officials with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board say they may never know what caused last month's deadly fertilizer-plant explosion in Texas because of interference by federal and Texas agencies, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the head of the regulatory board to U.S. Senator Barbara ...
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Thunderstorm warning issued in East Texas
The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning from 4:51 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. for Franklin County, Upshur County, Camp County, Morris County, Wood County, Cass County, Titus ...
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Texas judge Lesbian couple cant cohabitate
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, which began with a storybook wedding, ended Friday in a grim courtroom with a judge approving a divorce settlement after a protracted legal battle between the former ...
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Amber Alert Issued for McKinney 10-Month-Old
Alcocer is believed to have left the McKinney area between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Investigators said they believe she is traveling with a man in a white 2003 Dodge Dakota pickup truck that is pulling a black trailer with a blue ...
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Texas House passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform ...
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Texas windstorm insurance bill dies on Senate floor
Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, is blaming Steve Mostyn, the Houston attorney and Democratic mega-donor who in many ways has become the face of windstorm litigation since Hurricane Ike, as the primary reason Taylor's Senate Bill 1700 is ...
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Texas Drops “Anti-American” CSCOPE Lessons Battle Continues
A highly controversial school curriculum used in much of Texas known as "CSCOPE," which came under relentless assault from activists and parents ...
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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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