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Maserati dealership zooming into Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Dallas-based Park Place Dealerships marked the start of construction on a multimillion-dollar Maserati dealership in southwest Fort Worth by bringing four of the Italian carmaker’s finest models from its Dallas location and revving up the engines during a groundbreaking ceremony ...
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Slavery must never be forgotten
Just as many of you will never forget the oppression — indeed, extermination — of your fore-parents in foreign lands, discrimination in their new country or their constant battle for inclusion and acceptance in a place they came to call ...
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Get first look at new teaching hospital
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Your tax dollars will help pay for a major medical endeavor in Austin: a medical school for the University of Texas. Photos: Teaching hospital for University of Texas medical students The location of the teaching hospital will be next to the Frank Erwin Center and the existing University Medical Center Brackenridge, where officials unveiled the first renderings of the ...
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Telephone threat closes UT-Arlington campus
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- A telephoned threat about a gunman heading to the University of Texas at Arlington has led to the campus being closed and classes canceled as a ...
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Texas teacher finds bag returns more than $200K
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- An unemployed teacher who thought a bag on a road carried a dirty diaper found more than $200,000 and returned the cash to a ...
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Amnesty International USA Governor Rick Perry Must Halt Medellin Execution Immediately
Texas Goes 'Beyond the Pale if it Insists on Going Forward' With Execution WASHINGTON - August 4 - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to stay the execution of ...
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Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition and Environmental Defense Fund Reach Milestone Agreements With NRG Texas on Limestone Station Expansion
Environmental Defense Fund media contact: Chris Smith, 512.691.3451 TCACC media contacts: Frank J. Librio (Director, Public Information Office, City of Dallas) 214.670.3322 Frank Michel (Director of Communications, City of Houston) 832.393.0800 NRG media contacts: Meredith Moore 609.524.4522 David Knox (Texas) 713.795.6106 NRG Investor Relations contacts: Nahla Azmy ...
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Meet the newest Port of Corpus Christi commissioner
Knock me over with a feather if Nueces County Commissioners don’t appoint David Engel to the Port of Corpus Christi before this day is done. He is an excellent choice. So would have been five other ...
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Arlington OKs tax break for $20 million industrial project
Recycling carts: The City Council approved a contract amendment to give Republic Waste Services a $4.3 million one-time reimbursement for 65-gallon recycling carts being delivered to nearly 93,000 households. The payment will reduce the recycling fee increase scheduled to appear on residents’ water bills in July. The fee will drop from 94 cents to 51 cents a month. The monthly fee increase ...
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Texas Prison Cools Armory Not Living Space Lawsuit Alleges 13 Heatstroke Deaths Due To Lack Of Air Conditioning
As many as 13 Texas prisoners died from heatstroke since 2007 according to a lawsuit that questions how administrators decided to allocate the much-valued commodity of conditioned air in oppressive Texas ...
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Missing Ala baby found safe in Texas
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Authorities have located a missing 10-month-old Alabama boy in Texas with the 14-year-old girl who allegedly took him from a home in Birmingham. AL.com ...
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Ingleside woman shot by husband in murder-suicide dies Saturday
On January 9, 2007, my cousin's estranged husband lay in wait for her when she left work. With his pickup, he rammed her car until it flipped over, then shot her twice in the chest with a shotgun while she hung upside down and helpless in her seatbelt. She had left him 6 months before when he beat and raped her, then attempted to lock her in their home. I know exactly what this family is ...
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Cavs coming up empty for top-pick deal JUN 19
Cavs have been talking to teams for weeks about a trade, but they are finding a limited market and at this point are likely to keep the pick. Sources in Cleveland strongly suggest that ...
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Likelihood Dallas keeps its pick Zero percent JUN 19
Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0 percent. There is an 80-percent chance that the pick is traded before or, more likely, during the draft, the source said. There is at least a 15-percent chance that the pick is a foreign player who is under contract and can be left overseas for a year and not count against ...
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Zeller to the 76ers JUN 19
07:11 AM ET 06.19 | One cannot teach height, and Cody Zeller certainly has that particular part of the game covered -- even if some question his NBA upside. I've long dismissed the notion that ...
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Warriors Jackson the anti-Nelson on new deal JUN 19
07:10 AM ET 06.19 | Mark Jackson brings a certain zen quality that Don Nelson lacked. So: Jackson is not going to scheme for a bigger, longer contract this summer after leading ...
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Doc Rivers may not return to Boston this season JUN 18
Clippers to assume head coaching duties. But just because he's not heading to Los Angeles does not mean he's coming back to Boston. Danny Ainge's promise from last month seems about as reliable and useful as a weather report on Mars, and Rivers' future with ...
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Shes hot Coco Austin shares Las Vegas Peepshow behind scenes Pictures Video Showbiz News
Wearing flesh colored underwear that covers very little, Coco is seen in various poses as she flings herself around backstage at the hotel and ...
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Suspected prostitution ring busted in North Texas
PLANO, Texas (AP) -- Several women have been arrested on organized crime charges after law officers broke up an alleged prostitution ring in North ...
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Waco investigators seek help after possible arsons
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Investigators in Central Texas have asked for the public's help in solving about two dozen suspicious fires that could be ...
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Outlaw items up for auction by Dallas company
Officials with Heritage Auctions say Saturday's Legends of the Wild West Auction features a gun belt belonging to outlaw Jesse James. The auction will include more than 140 artifacts from the collection of the late Wilbur Zink of Springfield, ...
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Nueces County leaders mull Port of Corpus Christi appointment
CALLER-TIMES FILE NRG plans to spend more than $25 million on a power plant to support plastic producer M&G Group of Italy. M&G in January announced a $1 billion contract for construction of two plastics plants on the north side of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. Eight have applied to replace former Port Commissioner Mike Scott who resigned last month. County Commissioners are ...
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Rick Perry takes aim at New York
Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...
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Former Sen. Hutchison Joins Fleishman Hillard’s International Advisory Board
, R-Texas, has joined the International Advisory Board at FleishmanHillard, adding to an already packed portfolio for Hutchison, who served nearly 20 years in the Senate. Since leaving Congress in January, Hutchison has become a senior counsel at Bracewell & Giuliani and a member of Bank of America's Global Advisory Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Advisory ...
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Letter to the Editor Past funds for street repairs
A lot of the street repair money in the past went to upgrade the city facilities in regards to various lawsuits by the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act). For many years, the city thought they were immune from this law, as did several other south Texas towns. Even after huge sums of money have been spent to be in compliance with ADA, there are a lot of facilities still out of compliance. I ...
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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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