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Anderson County Man First Confirmed Case of West Nile Illness In Texas This Season
From Staff ReportsAn Anderson County man is the state's first confirmed case of West Nile illness this season, the Texas Department of State Health Services today confirmed in a news ...
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Joe Pool Lake Prepares for Big Crowds
About 30,000 people are expected to pack the parks surrounding Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie over the Memorial Day weekend -- and some are getting there early to beat the ...
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Child Accidentally Shot Killed in Greenville Home Police
The first officer arrived at the scene only a minute later and located the injured 12-year-old child, identified as Keshawn Carter Davis. The child was transported to Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville where he was later pronounced ...
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Driver Leads Fort Worth Police on Chase into Dallas
The chase began at about 3:15 p.m. when the driver of the white SUV refused to stop for police. The driver then continued east down Interstate 30 into Dallas before exiting the highway at Beckley ...
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Texas baby born after her mother was technically dead
Elayna Nigrelli's birth story is almost unbelievable: The infant girl was born while her mother didn't have a pulse. "I have got, like, the best ammunition for the rest of her life," mother Erica Nigrelli ...
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Line of thunderstorms sweeping through Texas
COASTAL BEND -- A line of storms from Laredo to the Hill Country is making its way east and will likely hit the Coastal Bend before 7 p.m. Friday. The National Weather Service forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of rain tonight. Some areas could see wind gusts of up to 55 mph and a quarter inch of rain. Once the storms pass, the weekend should be sunny and warm with daytime high ...
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South Texas Project and other plants contribute to boost in nuclear output
South Texas Project increased its nuclear energy output to full capacity from 70 percent after being offline a week for maintenance. U.S. nuclear-power output increased to its highest level in 10 weeks as the South Texas Nuclear Project and other plants returned to production after maintenance closures, according to a Bloomberg analysis of Nuclear Regulatory Commission data. Generation rose 1.9 ...
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Texas Conservatives Mobilize — Ask Governor to Veto Bill Expanding the Definition of ...
Republicans in the Texas Legislature have succeeded where Obama Democrats have failed. Both houses of the Texas Legislature have passed SB 346 and it awaits the governor's signature to become law. SB 346, authored by Senator Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo) and sponsored in the House by Representative Charlie Geren (R-Fort Worth), would greatly expand the definition of what is political activity ...
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Pro-Tesla Motors bill dies in Texas House
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc. Lawmakers have sided with dealers interests over those of Tesla Motors Inc. in the debate over whether manufacturers of electric- or all battery-powered vehicles should be able to sell directly to customers. House Bill 3351, authored by State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, had proposed changing Texas law that mandates vehicles be sold to customers through ...
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Smells like special session at Texas Capitol
Lawmakers have until Monday to wrap up their regular-session work. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is keeping quiet until the last moment on whether a special session will occur, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has made it clear he wants one. At the start of May, Perry advised lawmakers that one of the best ways to avoid a special session would be to show him a budget with $1.8 billion of tax relief for ...
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Bill to require drug tests for unemployment benefits passes Texas Senate
A Texas Senate bill that would make drug screening or testing a condition for receiving unemployment compensation benefits by certain individuals passed favorably out of the House Wednesday. Senate Bill 21, authored by State Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would amend Texas Labor Code so that individuals in industries designated by the U.S. Department of Labor as regularly conducting ...
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Tucker Company Worldwide Opens Texas Sales Office
Cherry Hill, N.J.-based freight broker 's volume originates and delivers in Texas, and the company wanted to have more direct contact with customers in that region, Tucker said in a written ...
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Judge orders more monitoring for Dallas Brent
reports.In a Friday court hearing, prosecutors said Brent violated the terms of his release by setting off an alcohol-monitoring device and failing to download data from it as required. Judge Robert Burns issued the order but did not raise Brent's $100,000 bond, according to the AP.Brent is scheduled to go on trial in September for the Dec. 8 crash. Regardless of the outcome, ...
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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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