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Arlington police seek tips on playground dragon slayer
Arlington police are seeking the public’s help to identify the vandal or vandals, who caused about $5,000 in damage last week by lopping the head off the popular playground ...
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East Texas fire kills more than 200 exotic birds
Owner Tommy Hayes said Monday that he's devastated about the fire. Hayes says he raises the birds to protect them but occasionally sells some of the creatures to offset the $2,800 monthly cost for sanctuary ...
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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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Live Oak County sued over jail abuse
GEORGE WEST -- Live Oak County has been sued in federal court for the second time in a year over the sexual abuse of women held in its jail. Also named in the lawsuit filed earlier this month in Corpus Christi are three former guards from the Live Oak County jail who were previously convicted of improper sexual contact with prisoners. Attorney Ron Armstrong, who filed the lawsuit, said ...
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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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Border Patrol rescues 3 from South Texas ranch
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- The Border Patrol says it has saved the lives of two men lost in the brush north of the U.S.-Mexico border, but a third was reported as brain dead in an area ...
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Obama thwarted No indication he will win back House
President Obama's non-stop fundraising for congressional Democrats is building a huge campaign war chest for next fall, but there is little hope that his party will win back control of the House and make Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaker again, according to an exhaustive new analysis. But the report from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics also shows that Obama may suffer the ...
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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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El Paso Home Foreclosure Filings Drop
The number of El Paso homes with foreclosure filings declined 51 percent in May compared to a year ago, new data show. El Paso had 57 homes in some stage of foreclosure in May -- 61 fewer than in May 2012, RealtyTrac reported. The home foreclosure filings include default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. In Texas, the number of homes with foreclosure filings decreased ...
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After blast nursing home deaths higher than usual
WEST, Texas (AP) -- While the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West destroyed much of the nursing home next to it, almost all of its residents survived that first ...
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Texas counties can seek feral hog control grants
Commissioner Todd Staples says feral hog control efforts need to be coordinated across public entities and private landowners. Individual Texas counties must partner with at least one other county also working on feral hog ...
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High winds derail 47 BNSF cars in Texas Panhandle
Faust says 47 cars that were empty or carrying various freight derailed before dawn Monday. He says 42 cars ended up on their sides. No cargo spilled from the 71-car train traveling from Clovis, N.M., to ...
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Cantwell Elected President of Austin Association of Insurance Professionals
The Austin Association of Insurance Professionals (AAIP) announced that Kimmi Cantwell, with McGowan, Donnelly & Oberheu LLC has been elected president of the group for 2013/2014. Also elected ...
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Rain is mostly done for the day in North Texas warm temperatures ahead
For the second consecutive morning, storms packed with booming thunder and an extreme lightning show arrived in North Texas Tuesday morning before the rush hour. Rainfall totals were about a half-inch across much of the ...
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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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Rick Perry Goes to War Against Connecticut
Rick Perry, the Texas governor and 2012 "oops" presidential candidate, is spending the beginning of this week in Connecticut. Perry, as the governor of Texas, has little on-its-face reason to be in Connecticut. Except, of course, for one: Texas's unemployment rate, which at 6.4 percent in April is significantly lower than the national average, is still not quite ideal. Perry wants ...
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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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Texas police identify 2 men killed in dispute
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Police in North Texas have identified two men fatally shot following a weekend altercation between groups of people in separate ...
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Congressman Labor Department expanded wage rule without public comment
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing this morning that the Labor Department expanded the reach of Davis-Bacon Act without public comment earlier this year. Davis-Bacon is a law that requires contractors engaged in any federally-funded construction project to affirm that they are paying workers the prevailing local wage. Big Business dislikes ...
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Support falling in polls Harry Reid announces rush to pass immigration bill
new poll showing falling support for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final, up-or-down vote on passing the bill by the end of next week. "I'm just telling everybody that we're going to either file cloture on this on Friday or Saturday or Sunday or ...
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First look The amendment that could decide the fate of immigration reform
As the Senate debate over the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill reaches full speed this week, leading Democrats have pronounced the border security amendment proposed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn a "non-starter." To break through what could become a deadlock, other GOP senators have been working on an alternative border security proposal to strengthen the bill in a ...
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Man robs two banks in less than an hour
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A bank robber managed to hit two separate banks in Austin on Tuesday in less than an hour. The robber hit Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research Blvd. in North Austin at 10 a.m. and then the Frost Bank in the 1200 block of Barbara Jordan Boulevard in Central Austin at 10:40 a.m. Police said the robber ran away from both banks, though no one knew in which direction he went each ...
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Police head to Prosperity Bank robbery
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police responded to a bank robbery in North Austin. A robber hit the Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research ...
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San Antonio leads 3-2
SAN ANTONIO -- Manu Ginobili had 24 points and 10 assists in a surprise start to spark the San Antonio Spurs to a 114-104 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, pushing the Spurs one victory away from their fifth championship. Danny Green scored 24 points and broke Ray Allen's finals record for 3s in a series with 25. Tony Parker had 26 points for San ...
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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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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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