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Next Mac will be made in Texas Tim Cook says
May 21, 2013: Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives on Capitol Hill, in Washington, to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue ...
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Sprinkles readies Dallas cupcake ATM looks at Fort Worth location
Sprinkles Cupcakes is looking to expand to Forth Worth, according to a company spokeswoman. The site would be the company's second North Texas location. Sprinkles Cupcakes has turned its attention to Fort Worth, after spending the past year planning new additions to Dallas, a company spokeswoman said. Joanne Yurich said Sprinkles is looking for sites in Fort Worth for its second North Texas ...
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Choke Canyon Reservoir yields state record alligator
Braxton Bielski, 18, shot this 14-foot, 3-inch alligator during a public hunt at the James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area on Choke Canyon Reservoir. The 800-pound giant is a state record, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department officials said. Fort Bend County teen kills 800-pound alligator at James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area on Choke Canyon ...
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Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry
The five bills that passed through the Senate provide a new approach to help grow the expanding craft beer industry and update several business practices and regulatory issues in the Alcoholic Beverage Code, according to the Beer Alliance of Texas. Its bottoms up for craft beer brewers in Texas after the House passed a package of bills Monday to help create a more robust craft beer ...
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Dougherty calls on Lehmberg to resign
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The only Republican on the Travis County Commissioners Court called Tuesday for Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. Gerald Daugherty said that Lehmberg's conviction last month on a drunken driving charge has undermined her standing as the county's chief prosecutor. Lehmberg was sentenced to 45 days in the county jail. She was released after 22 days ...
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WATCH Spurs expect Randolph Grizzlies to rebound
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Zach Randolph's miserable debut in the Western Conference finals led to a sleepless night and a long film session.The Memphis Grizzlies' All-Star power forward is hardly down and out, though.Randolph pointed out Monday that even Muhammad Ali got knocked down and was able to get back up. He's counting on doing the same as Memphis prepares to play at San ...
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Time running out for state water plan in Austin
The Texas Legislature has until Monday to approve a resolution that would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot for November. Voters would then decide whether to take $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to pay for water infrastructure and conservation projects. The first of two bills that deal with the states water infrastructure got final approval from the Texas Legislature ...
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Construction worker killed in Grapevine
GRAPEVINE — A construction worker slipped off rafters at a home under construction and died from his injuries Monday afternoon at a local hospital, police said ...
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Water restrictions set to return June 3
Even with storms expected across the region Tuesday, the water district, which provides raw water to 98 percent of Tarrant County, does not expect enough precipitation to avoid hitting the trigger for Stage 1 water restrictions by early ...
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North Texas in direct path of new round of storms Tuesday
Today “will be a bigger day for us than today,” said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth. “Unfortunately we have lots of moisture still in place and storms will be sliding into our ...
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2 lawsuits filed against Maine Catholic church
- Two brothers are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, saying church officials knew a priest was sexually abusing them and other children but failed to stop it. In complaints in Cumberland County Superior Court, Jeffrey and Frederick Conroy say the late Father James Vallely abused them from approximately 1976 through approximately 1979, when they were altar boys at St. Michael's ...
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Back surgery has Tony Romo out of Cowboys practices
Tony Romo had a cyst removed from his back last month. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo won't be on the field Tuesday when off-season workouts begin for the team at its Valley Ranch facility in Irving. The team said that Romo, who signed a $108 million contract extension in March, will be getting time to heal after he had a troublesome cyst removed last month from his back. The Cowboys ...
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Compare Metrics completes $4.2M Series A funding
Software maker Compare Metrics Inc. has completed a $4.2 million Series A round of funding. The Austin-based company disclosed that investors included Austin Ventures LP and several angel investors, according to a Tuesday news release. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools to e-commerce websites with a white-label product discovery platform. Company ...
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ATT unlimited data customers to get video calling ability
Apple's FaceTime app is a popular way for video calling on the iPhone. Dallas-based AT&T Inc.'s ban on its unlimited data iPhone users from making calls using the phone's popular FaceTime feature soon may be over. The Los Angeles Times reported that AT&T will allow software and smartphone makers the ability to enable video calling for unlimited data customers on preinstalled apps on ...
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Texas Hold Em in Tehran - By Yasmin Alem
Gitmo needs $200 million in upgrades; Guardsmen called up in Oklahoma; an ICBM test planned for today; Hagel meets with a Russian; What North Korea could do to the U.S.; Baron, out; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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High risk of severe storms in region
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Travis, Williamson counties and large parts of the Texas Hill Country were ripe for severe weather on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. Included in the mix were enhanced chances of severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging winds, and even isolated tornadoes. Super-cell thunderstorms were called a possibility. "Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and ...
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Central Texas braces for more severe storms
AUSTIN (KXAN) - One day after the same system of storms that battered an Oklahoma City suburb stretched into Texas, a renewed risk of severe weather emerged Tuesday. The entire KXAN viewing area is included in the slight risk area for severe weather from the Storm Prediction Center, while some of the northern neighborhoods have an increased chance for severe weather by being included in the ...
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Sprint boosts offer for Clearwire to $10.7B
Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire Corp., but it wants to buy the remaining shares. Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday boosted its offer for Clearwire Corp. by 14 percent to about $10.7 billion. Sprint already is the majority owner of Clearwire. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint (NYSE: S) raised its offer from $2.97 per share to $3.40 per share in an attempt to win over ...
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Pioneer tests running fleet truck and drilling rigs on compressed natural gas
Wm. Stacy Locke, president and CEO of Pioneer Energy Services, says the company is testing out compressed natural gas for its fleet trucks and drilling rigs. Drilling-services company Pioneer Energy Services has begun testing a truck powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) with its eye on converting more of its fleet to the low-cost fuel. The San Antonio-based companys new 2013 Chevrolet 2500HD ...
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Trident expands public entity insurance program in Pennsylvania
Trident Insurance Services and The McGowan Cos. have formed a new partnership that will allow McGowan agents and brokers to sell Trident's public entity insurance program in Pennsylvania. One of Trident's products is law enforcement liability. Trident Insurance Services LLC has formed an exclusive partnership with The McGowan Cos. to provide public entity insurance in Pennsylvania. The ...
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Austins Pizza Phone problems may kill business
J.D. Torian says his blood, sweat and tears for the past eight years have been invested in making Austin's Pizza a success and now with a sudden phone service problem, his livelihood and that of 225 employees is in jeopardy. The problems started last November when Torian said his phone service provider, AT&T Inc., billed him for equipment he didnt receive and didnt need. Torian said AT&T cut ...
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Construction progresses at Exxon Mobils Houston campus
Miscellaneous views of the new Exxon Mobil campus under construction in Spring, Texas. Friday, April 12, 2013. (Photo by Michael Stravato) Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. is building a 20-building campus on 385 acres in north Houston, and according to the Houston Business Journal, it's one of the largest construction projects under way in the United States. The HBJ got a sneak peek at the ...
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Tesoro Corp. will sell Carson terminal assets to Tesoro Logistics
A file photo of Tesoro Corp.'s refinery in Hawaii. Tesoro has agreed to sell its logistics assets in Carson, Calif. to Tesoro Logistics LP. Tesoro Corp. will sell some of the storage infrastructure it acquires through its takeover of BP Plcs Carson, Calif., refinery to Tesoro Logistics LP, a partnership it formed in 2011 to develop pipelines and other oil-logistics assets. The infrastructure ...
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Minor spill tar balls cleaned up at Galveston
General Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam (SOO'-dam) says the source has not been determined. He says no additional tar balls were reported Tuesday and cleanup was nearly ...
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Longview police officer suspect injured in chase
Longview police say Monday night's incident led to the officer and the male suspect being transported to a hospital. Police on Tuesday didn't immediately say whether anyone had been shot or provide further details on ...
Austin Digest
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Austin among the leading US cities emerging from recession
The financial crisis, now refered to by some as the Great Recession, has battered cities across the country, but Austin has become a pocket of hope where jobs are available and the population is growing, suggesting that the city may be among a few in the US leading the country out of the recession.
Austin has been ranked in the top 20 US cities with strong population growth, the study was done by the Census Bureau, this is a reflection of the sound economic performance of Texas as whole (the state had several of its cities in the top 20), and subsequently may be given four additional House seats following the 2010 census. Read more
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