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Texas could stiffen penalty for attacks on emergency room workers under bill awaiting governors signature
The bill awaiting the governor's signature mandates felony charges for those who assault emergency room workers as hospitals document an increase in such ...
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Astros to don special caps on Memorial Day
HOUSTON -- The Astros will join the rest of Major League Baseball in wearing specially designed caps and jerseys on Memorial Day featuring an authentic military digital camouflage design licensed by the United States Marine Corps. The Astros play the Rockies at 1:10 p.m. CT on Monday at Minute Maid Park, and veterans and active military personnel will receive a 50-percent discount on tickets at ...
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Row between U.S. agencies over Texas plant explosion deepens
(Reuters) - A dispute between government agencies over the investigation into the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant intensified on Thursday when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives hit back after being criticized by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board ...
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Lawmakers zero in on IRS meetings at White House
In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he ...
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Corpus Christi restaurants may apply for permits to allow dogs on outdoor patios
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Corpus Christi restaurant owners now have the option to entertain four-legged clientele in outdoor seating areas. The City Council this week amended a ban on dogs in eateries to allow canines on patios provided the animals are not within 7 feet of the restaurant entrance, do not have to enter the building to get to the patio and follow other regulations. Restaurants must ...
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Texas lawmakers approve a fair pay bill
That’s why they worked together to pass a bill designed to prevent pay discrimination against women, because women on the average are paid only 77 cents for every $1 earned by men for the same ...
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Boy Scouts CEO calls for unity
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America called the decision to lift the ban on gay youth in the Scouts "truly in the best interests of ...
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Tax tussle riling Legislature in final week
The state sales tax rate isn't budging. Another sales tax holiday isn't in the works. Nor is the Texas Legislature raising homestead property exemptions by $10,000, which prevailed as most popular of nearly a dozen tax-cutting options the governor suggested in an online survey when this 140-day session ...
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Portland City Manager Mike Tanner set to retire this summer
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Portland City Manager Mike Tanner announced plans to retire from his post this summer after more than 17 years on the job. Tanner's last day working for the city, where he has spent half his career, will be July 23. His work in municipal administration began in 1978 as Portland's assistant city manager. He also has worked in West University Place, Flower Mound, ...
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Lakers Kupchak thinks Dwight Howard can play nice with coach MAY 23
06:30 PM ET 05.23 | Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak believes Dwight Howard will take a return to Los Angeles seriously. The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that Howard is also interested in Dallas, Houston, Golden State and Atlanta as free agency destinations. But he will also consider the Lakers, whose coach, Mike D'Antoni, is rumored to have rubbed Howard the wrong way. Kupchak ...
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Nate McMillan done as Team USA assistant MAY 23
05:58 PM ET 05.23 | On the same day coach Mike Krzyzewski announced he would return to coach Team USA, his assistant, Nate McMillan, said he won't. McMillan is currently searching for a head coaching opportunity that would fit him. ...
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Kobe Bryant ties records for most All-NBA selections MAY 23
06:11 PM ET 05.23 | Kobe Bryant may not have a chance to usurp Michael Jordan for greatest ever, but he's in the running for having the greatest longevity. The Los Angeles Lakers guard was named to the All-NBA First Team on Thursday, the 11th time he's appeared on the first team and the 15th time he's been on the list overall. That ties him with former Utah Jazz forward Karl ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Obamas drone policy at a glance
President Barack Obama defended the United States' use of drone attacks as an important part of the U.S. counterterrorism policy on Thursday but signed new presidential policy guidelines to spell out for Congress and the public the standards that the U.S. will use before carrying out drone ...
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New rules for labeling meat go into effect in US
But the rules that went into effect for meat on Thursday provide more detailed information. Instead of seeing a label that says, "Product of the U.S.A. and Canada," shoppers might find one that says "Born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United ...
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Alabama mystery illness solved its common flu
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved.The investigation involved 10 people who became sick and were admitted to hospitals in Dothan and Luverne in southeast Alabama. Two died, six remained hospitalized Thursday, ...
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Former Texas Police Officer Ordered to Federal Prison for Deprivation of Civil Rights
WASHINGTON-Frank Carter, 43, a former officer with the Laredo, Texas Police Department (LPD), has been sentenced to prison following his conviction for violating the civil rights of an arrestee, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Carter pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Today, U.S. District Judge Diana ...
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Pennsylvania investor buys Southeast Austin properties
Commerce Center South was acquired by a Philadelphia area-based investment company. Stoltz Real Estate Partners in Bala Cynwyd, Penn., bought the Commerce Center South at the southwest corner of Ben White Boulevard and Montopolis Drive. The seller was PacTrust. The three Class A industrial buildings encompass 155,545 square feet on a 35.3-acre site in the Southeast Austin submarket. The property ...
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Hurricane outlook Another busy Atlantic season
Their prediction Thursday calls for 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, seven to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and three to six that become major ...
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87-year-old woman loses to Donald Trump in civil case involving a condo deal
FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at federal court in Chicago to testify at a civil trial where he is accused of cheating an 87-year-old Jacqueline Goldberg in a condo deal. On Thursday, May 23, 2013, jurors sided with Trump and against Goldberg. Goldberg claimed the real estate mogul-turned-TV star carried out a bait and switch by offering her profit sharing in his ...
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Police officer charged with shooting cat with arrow
BOERNE, Texas (KXAN) - Bobby, a 2-year-old tabby cat, survived being shot with an arrow and the off-duty Boerne police officer accused of the shooting was charged with animal cruelty. According the WOAI, the NBC affiliate in San Antonio, Officer Lance DeLeon was arrested and accused of shooting Bobby with a crossbow on Tuesday. The four-year police veteran was released after posting a $2,000 ...
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Tiffs Treats to open South Austin location
Leon Chen, CEO of Tiff's Treats, said customer data determines where the cookie maker opens new stores. Tiffs Treats, the purveryor of warm cookies delivered to your door, will open a shop in Southwest Austin later this summer or in early fall. Our customers in South Austin have had to go to Westlake or downtown for Tiffs Treats, and now well be in a very popular center, said Leon Chen, ...
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Woman hit by car as burglars make off with purse
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) - A woman was struck by a fleeing getaway car after she saw a man stealing her purse at a Round Rock daycare. The incident happened Wednesday at the Primrose School of Round Rock, 3313 Forrest Creek Drive , at about 4:30 p.m. After the woman picked up her children, she noticed a man breaking into her vehicle. The man jumped into a newer-model silver Ford Focus driven by ...
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Austin Energy to resume service cutoffs
AUSTIN (KXAN) - For the first time in a year, Austin Energy will begin shutting off energy to customers who are not paying their bills. Ed Clark says cutting a customer off is a last resort and will only happen after all possible warnings and requests are ignored. We will do phone calls, letters, door hangers, said Clark. But once we have communicated and sent notices, at some point we will do a ...
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Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek
DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...
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Texas sees important new realty development
Natural Development LCC is a local real estate company in Texas that has bought over 400 acres of land adjacent to Onion Creek and the Colorado River and between the Texas 130 and Texas 71 with plans to turn it into a small town with over 1000 homes and business and thousands of residents.
Natural Development LLC is an Austin-based developer with big plans for Watersedge, the unlikely name of the high-class community to be created on the Greenfield site near the Texas 71 and Texas 130. Read more
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