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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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Health Officials Decry Texas Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions
Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the opening session of the Texas Legislature in Austin earlier this year. The state of Texas is turning down billions of federal dollars that would have paid for health care coverage for 1.5 million poor Texans. By refusing to participate in Medicaid expansion, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, the state will leave on the table an estimated $100 ...
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Texas Medical Association launches physician services group
Dr. Russell Kridel, president of Harris County Medical Society, said the new physician group will provide doctors with tools to provide better and more efficient care. The Texas Medical Association has teamed up with some of the states largest medical societies to create the Physician Services Organization for Patient Care. The organization aims to deliver tools to help physicians perform better ...
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Velocis buys Uptown Dallas office tower
Dallas-based real estate investment firm Velocis has purchased 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Dallas-based real estate investment fund Velocis, along with its investors, has bought 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas for an undisclosed sum. The 145,610-square-foot Class A office building is in a highly-desired submarket, where tenants can walk to a number of amenities, said Mike Lewis, ...
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Gun measure triggers Republican fight in House
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A move to give lawmakers the right to carry handguns anywhere they wish sparked an angry debate in the Texas House of Representatives between ...
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Ex-police officer gets prison for abusing suspect
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A former Laredo police officer has been sentenced to a year in prison after admitting to abusing a suspect in his patrol car last ...
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Texas man found guilty of murder in 1984 case
A Collin County jury on Thursday found 50-year-old Alonzo Grayson Jr. guilty in the killing of 18-year-old Bobby Ray Taylor in January 1984. The jury then began deliberating the punishment for Grayson, who faces up to 99 years in prison. He's not eligible for parole because of prior convictions that include robbery and ...
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Alberto Lombardi focused on new sushi bar Taverna move
Alberto Lombardi, owner of Lombardi Family Concepts, said hes slowing down thoughts of expansion and is focusing on his current five Dallas locations. Lombardi recently added a sushi bar to 31, the lounge that sits above Bistro 31. The addition has brought in additional customers and made the lounge more popular, Lombardi said. Needless to say, he plans on keeping it there. Lombardi also is ...
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Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis
When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...
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Texas Joins Flood of States Suing BP over 2010 Gulf Spill
Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and others ';engaged in willful and wanton misconduct'; for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ...
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R.L. Worths Heritage Oaks lands a new neighbor
Zachry Construction Corp. is moving the company's headquarters to Heritage Oaks at Inwood. Only months after NuStar Energy LP moved out of its former headquarters, Zachry Construction Co. has decided to move in. The latter has closed on the purchase of Building I at the Heritage Oaks at Inwood office park on the far North Side. Spanning 84,000 square feet, the structure will serve as the new ...
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Lawmakers require audit of Perry development fund
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill requiring an audit of Gov. Rick Perry's deal-closing Texas Enterprise Fund.Lawmakers have been demanding closer scrutiny of the decade-old program that has given more than $485 million to private companies looking to expand or relocate in the state. Critics have questioned the fund, and Perry's similar ...
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Halliburton adds 100 CNG trucks to its fleet as part of pilot program
Halliburton has invested in 100 hybrid vehicles that can run on compressed natural gas or conventional fuel. Oilfield services giant Halliburton, one of the key players in South Texas Eagle Ford Shale, has deployed nearly 100 light-duty compressed natural gas trucks across its U.S. field locations. Houston-based Halliburton purchased the vehicles as part of a pilot program that be rolled out ...
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Legacy graduate elected Dallas Baptist SGA president
Reagan Rothenberger, a Beaumont native and 20-year-old junior at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), was elected president of the Student Government Association (SGA) on April 17 for the 2013-14 school year, and will take office in August. Rothenberger is the first junior to be elected president of SGA in ten years at DBU, he ...
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Police searching for possible assault victim
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police are looking for a woman who they believe may have been assaulted by a man early Tuesday in North Austin. Witnesses reported seeing a man dragging a woman in a chokehold by her hair towards a car about 3:12 a.m., on an Interstate 35 service road near a residential community on River Oaks Drive. As the man pulled her towards a car, a witness drove by and the man told the ...
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Teen found beaten to death in Fort Worth park was raising family helping mother
Services Funeral services for Nicholas Anderson will be 10 a.m. Saturday at First Missionary Baptist Church, 4928 Miller Ave., Fort Worth. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Memorial ...
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Construction worker seriously injured in fall from roof at Kimbell Art Museum
dboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH _ A construction worker was seriously injured this afternoon after falling about 30 feet from the roof of the Kimbell Art Museum, fire officials ...
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Some fixes in the works for congested Y
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Relief might be on the way to one of Austin's most congested areas -- the so-called Y in Oak Hill. The Texas Department of Transportation is installing turn lanes on U.S. 290 near Ranch Road 1826. The project could take two years to complete Another project will begin this summer. Crews will put in what are called "continuous flow" intersections between the Y and Joe ...
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Texas GOP Introduced At Least 24 Anti-Abortion Bills This Year But Not A Single One Advanced
Over the past several years, Texas lawmakers have kept themselves busy by launching multiple attacks on women’s health. In 2011 and 2012, state ...
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Exclusive Energy firm expands HQ relocates within Dallas
Longtime Dallas energy firm Solomon Associates is moving its headquarters to One Lincoln Centre in June. Dallas-based Solomon Associates, a performance improvement company for the global energy industry, is expanding and relocating its headquarters within the city limits. The longtime Dallas-based company has signed a lease for 28,860 square feet of office space at One Lincoln Centre on the ...
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Census Texas has 8 of 15 fastest-growing cities in U.S.
Census Bureau says. Only Texas had more than one city among the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country with populations of more than 50,000 in 2012, the Bureau said in a report released Thursday. The Texas city of San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio, had the highest rate of growth. Other Texas cities on the list were sprinkled around the state. New York topped the list of ...
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Peak Rock Capital acquires Miami paper maker
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital has acquired Atlas Paper Mills LLC, a Miami-based tissue paper maker. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a news release. A spokesman for Austin-based Peak Rock declined to reveal the name of the affiliate company. Atlas Paper Mills, founded in 1981, manufactures tissue products using 100 percent recycled fiber. It employs 2,000 workers, ...
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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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