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Texas Kind Of Protects Your Email Privacy With New Law
Before the NSA leaks, everybody thought the worst the government could do was obtain your email without a warrant. Well, they can still do that, but Texas has just made it harder for local law enforcement to do the ...
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OneWest Laying Off Hundreds in Texas
Hundreds of jobs in Texas are being eliminated by OneWest Bank FSB. The disclosure of the layoffs follows last week's revelation that the bank would sell a substantial share of its mortgage servicing rights. As of June 30, 2012, Pasadena, Calif.-based financial institution had a total mortgage servicing staff of nearly 1,300 employees. The headcount was based on national employment. ...
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South Texas county sued over jail abuse
GEORGE WEST, Texas (AP) -- A South Texas county has been sued in federal court for the second time in a year over the sexual abuse of women held in its ...
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Mosquito Spraying Working in Dallas County
Dallas County Health Department director Zachary Thompson told commissioners that ground spraying is working in Dallas County. He said where they have sprayed the number of mosquitoes has been cut by about 60 percent. The region was the epicenter of the national outbreak last ...
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Youth Minister Among 4 Killed in Fort Worth Crash
Tonight a family and a community is in mourning. We have learned among the 4 victims killed in Saturday night's crash in Fort Worth, was a mother and daughter and also youth minister (insert) Brian ...
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Fort Worths proposed bond package is increased to $293 million adding street parks projects
FORT WORTH — The city is increasing its planned May 2014 bond package by $17 million to $293 million, boosting money for transportation and adding several parks ...
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Mass Transportation Rolls Into Arlington
"That's been said about Arlington for a long time. This is a great step for the city and an important partnership," said Dick Ruddell, president of the Fort Worth Transportation ...
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Affidavit Gunmen targeted teen in Fort Worth shooting killed boy instead
FORT WORTH — Two gunmen, one armed with an assault rifle and the other with a handgun, sprayed a Fort Worth house with bullets earlier this month trying to kill a teen, but they gunned down a 12-year-old boy who had been standing on a driveway, an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Star-Telegram on Tuesday ...
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Fitch Rates Texas Veterans 2010B GO Bank Bonds AAA Outlook Stable
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to bank bonds corresponding to the following series of State of Texas general obligation (GO) veterans bonds: --$62,485,000 State of Texas GO veterans bonds, series 2010B. The ratings are being assigned in conjunction with the execution of a substitute liquidity agreement in the form of a ...
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Inside Report Cuban continues to make sales pitch to free agents
DALLAS -- While he continues to weigh his options on what to do with the No. 13 selection in the first round of the NBA Draft on June 27, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has also maintained his focus on the start of free agency. Continuing to make his radio rounds to express his sales pitch to free agents before they hit the open market July 1, Cuban made it clear that the Mavericks will ...
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FEMA Denies Texas Aid to Rebuild Town After Fertilizer Blast
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it won't provide U.S. aid to help rebuild the town in Texas where an April fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people and leveled nearby buildings. In a June 10 letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, FEMA's administrator said that while the agency had made payments to individuals affected by the blast, a major disaster ...
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Woman vs Carjacker Texas Mom Punched Ran Over Thief to Protect Kids
A woman and a carjacker's interaction is all over the news after the mother of six managed not only to fight him off, but hit him with her car Friday. The Texas mother saw her children's life in danger when the man attacked her and resolved to do whatever she could to keep her children safe. The woman's carjacker was Ismael Martinez, and he managed to sneak into the minivan while ...
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Texas Republican Says He Wants to Ban Abortion Because ... Fetuses Masturbate
's Adele Stan reports that Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said that fetuses at 15-weeks "stroke their face. If they're a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?" Burgess is a former OB-GYN. The comments came as the House of Representatives prepared to debate a bill that would outlaw ...
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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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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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