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Astros players teach kids fundamentals at local clinics
Astros president Reid Ryan provides instruction to a young girl at one of three area clinics on Saturday. (Astros) HOUSTON -- The Astros organization continued to give back to the community, hosting three baseball clinics at youth baseball parks across the Houston area on Saturday morning. Four players, along with Astros president Reid Ryan, teamed up with the Astros Urban Youth Academy to host ...
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San Antonio flooding kills 1 dozens rescued
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Massive flooding from torrential rains in the San Antonio area left at least one person dead Saturday and sent emergency workers rushing in boats to rescue more than 100 residents stranded in cars and ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 25
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Baltimore Orioles: 1. ...
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House Senate reach testing charter schools deal
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal to overhaul high school standardized testing and curriculum standards while increasing the number of charter schools in ...
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House adjourns while lawmakers resolved difference
With less than 36 hours left to pass laws during this regular session, lawmakers normally work all the way up to midnight. But this year, the House and Senate versions of many proposed laws differed enough to force them into conference ...
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Texas lawmakers send bill to modify concealed handgun licenses to governor
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas lawmakers have sent to Gov. Rick Perry a bill that allows concealed handgun license holders to carry a revolver or semi-automatic pistol, regardless of what they trained with on the shooting range. Current law certifies license holders to carry only the type of gun they use to get their license. The bill by Sen. Craig Estes, a Wichita Falls Republican, allows them to ...
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Woman killed in San Antonio flooding official says
SAN ANTONIO – A woman has been killed in flooding in the San Antonio area. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove says the 29-year-old woman was trapped in her car, got on the roof and was swept away in floodwaters. He says her body was later found against a fence. Bove says rescue workers are searching for a second person who's missing after being trapped in another ...
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Texas gets OF Benson on waiver claim from Twins
SEATTLE — The Texas Rangers have acquired outfielder Joe Benson on a waiver claim from the Minnesota Twins, and optioned him to Double-A Frisco. Texas made room for Benson on its 40-man roster by transferring left-hander Matt Harrison from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. Harrison, the team's opening day starter, has had two operations on his back since going on the DL in ...
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One driver killed as heavy rains flood streets in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A woman died when her car was washed off a bridge on Saturday as drenching rains in Texas spawned flood waters so powerful they swept a city bus off the street, San Antonio officials ...
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Texas flooding turns deadly as police confirm body found in water
reports . The body was found behind a store. A car had been found abandoned after being swept underneath a bridge into a culvert, but it isn't known whether the woman had been in that car. "Our officers and firefighters are doing a great job of monitoring the various closures and keeping the public safe," San Antonio police Chief William McManus said. "I've been kept ...
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Dozens rescued from flooded San Antonio area
The San Antonio International Airport by Saturday afternoon had recorded nearly 10 inches of rain since midnight. The highest amount of rainfall since midnight was 15.5 inches at Olmos Creek at Dresden ...
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Heavy rain turns deadly in San Antonio
By Patrick Garrity, NBC News The wet weather plaguing many parts of the U.S. this holiday weekend has turned fatal in sodden San Antonio.One person is dead, another is missing and nearly a hundred more have been rescued as heavy rain has pummeled the Texas city, causing flash ...
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Former Aransas County Sheriff killed in auto accident
Aransas County Sheriff Mark Gilliam jokingly offers up his hot dog to McGruff the Crime Dog in 2008 during the National Night Out Against Crime at the Rockport ...
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High-water rescues reported in San Antonio area
SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio firefighters have pulled people from submerged cars and rescued passengers whose bus was swept away in flood waters from torrential rains.Officials say numerous roads have been closed because of flash flooding.The city's transit agency says firefighters on a boat were able to rescue the three bus passengers and driver early Saturday. A spokeswoman says nobody was ...
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U.S. 181 in Pettus closed after flooding
PETTUS -- Northbound U.S. 181 in Pettus was shut down Saturday after heavy rains caused the road to flood, said Rickey Dailey, with the Texas Department of Transportation. The detour is Farm- to-Market road 623 in Pettus to Farm-to-Market 673 in Mineral to State Highway 72 in Pawnee back to U.S. 181 to Kenedy. See Caller.com for more ...
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Perry Texas Legislature honor fallen soldiers
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry has addressed a joint session of the Legislature to honor Texans killed in combat, saying the duty to honor the fallen goes beyond ...
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Pet of the Week Hunter
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Hunter, a treeing walker coonhound , is KXAN's Pet of the Week. Edward Flores of Austin Dog Rescue brought Hunter to KXAN on Saturday morning. According to the Austin Dog Rescue website, Hunter socializes well with other dogs. "Hunter is a sweet, affectionate, easy going boy that was rescued from a rural shelter on acold winter day in early January. He had only been at ...
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Despite tornado festival kicks off in Texas town
ENNIS, Texas-One of the largest Czech festivals in the U.S. is taking place this weekend in a North Texas town still recovering from a tornado. The 47th annual National Polka Festival is expected to bring 50,000 people to Ennis, about 30 miles southeast of Dallas. Officials say the Ennis parade route had to be changed because the downtown area remains closed to traffic. But Chamber of Commerce ...
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Corpus Christi child dies after being left unattended in hot car Friday
If it was not done on purpose,as some form of sick punishment, which is child cruelty, then, perhaps, they were on drugs. How else could this tragedy happen? Poor child, so ...
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Former Corpus Christi municipal court employee faces another count of tampering with records
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Apple Loop Macs Made In Texas iOS 7 Goes Black And White Microsoft Mocks Siri
Washington , D.C. this week to address a bi-partisan Senate subcommittee that criticized the company for using tax loopholes and keeping the majority of its cash overseas to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain had harsh words for Apple in their opening statements and in the report assembled by the committee's staff detailing why Cook and co. ...
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No-refusal numbers 24 overnight
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police report that Saturday night's no-refusal initiative netted 24 people. The Austin Police Department has begun implementing no-refusal weekend during major events and holidays. Last night, 24 people were picked up on suspicion of driving will intoxicated. Of those 24, 11 consented to breath tests and 13 involved blood draws. Of the 13 blood draws, 2 gave consent ...
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Flash flood watch in effect all day
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The rainy pattern we saw across central Texas on Friday is persisting Saturday. A series of disturbances continue to rotate through the area riding an upper-level trough. These disturbances are interacting with plentiful low and mid-level moisture, combining to form scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms for the second day in a row. Rainfall totals Friday were the ...
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May 1 2013 security engineering class
MICHAEL ZAMORA/CALLER-TIMES Graduate student Pranav Phadke (left) helps junior Arianna Arevalo get the DJI Phantom off the ground May 1 during a security engineering class at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. A new minor degree program on campus is enabling students to pursue careers in the growing field of security ...
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Attorney fatally shot in Southlake represented Mexican drug cartel
dianesmith@star-telegram.com A 43-year-old Mexican citizen gunned down this week at Southlake Town Square had represented members of a powerful drug cartel whose leaders were recently sentenced to U.S. federal prison, according to media reports on both sides of the ...
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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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