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Missing Bham baby 14-year-old abductor found in Texas 19-year-old arrested
The Alabama Department of Public Safety has issued a Missing Child Media Alert after a 2-month-old baby was allegedly taken by a 14-year-old girl early Monday morning from Birmingham. Police say ...
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New housing development coming to area near Cowboy Stadium
ARLINGTON — A local developer plans to tear down four aging apartment complexes in north Arlington, not far from the Ballpark in Arlington and Cowboy Stadium, and replace them higher quality, high-density ...
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Judge orders new Texas school finance trial
After hearing brief arguments from the state and the six parties in the case, Dietz announced that a new six-week trial would begin on Jan. 6 in the suit that was filed last summer after lawmakers cut roughly $5.4 billion from state public education funding in 2011 while the state simultaneously implemented a rigorous new testing and accountability ...
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Panel OKs revisions to Eisenhower memorial designs
A long-delayed memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed to be built just off the National Mall took a key step forward Wednesday, when a presidentially appointed panel unanimously approved revisions to the Frank Gehry-designed project. Several hurdles still must be cleared before ground can be broken on the massive memorial, which is more than a dozen years in the planning. But the ...
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South Texas Botanical Gardens…
TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMESVisitors at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center pass by the center’s new Monkey Mansion tree house during its official dedication ceremony Wednesday. The tree house is made of a 400-year-old oak tree trunk ...
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Check your freezer 22737 lbs of beef recalled
(CNN) - The United States Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday that 22,737 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled on fears that they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 . The recall is categorized by the FSIS as "Class I": a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health ...
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Board backs plan to spruce up Astrodome
HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space. The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. on Wednesday opted to go with its own plan for the world's first domed, air-conditioned stadium instead of one of 19 private-sector plans submitted for its reuse. The board says the ...
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Food trucks all the rage in Austin
food truck base. In fact, whole websites have even been built to showcase food trailers by cuisine, location, and even roving ones. In fact, even the Austin Chamber of Commerce has an entire section on how to apply for a food trailer ...
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Board backs turning Astrodome into convention hall
HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition ...
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FBI is using drones in America director tells Congress
The Federal Bureau of Investigations employs the use of drones for surveillance on U.S. soil, the agency's director told lawmakers on Wednesday. At an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted the agency is making use of unmanned aircraft, but he did not provide many details, other than to say the information obtained by the drones ...
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Senate GOP says repeal of death tax must be part of tax reform
Senate Republicans on Wednesday said that a repeal of the federal estate tax must be a key component of any tax reform proposal, setting up a showdown with President Obama, who hopes to raise the levy to help reduce the deficit. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Vice President Joe Biden negotiated in January to make permanent the current estate tax parameters as part of the ...
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A year after West Nile plagued Texas aerial spraying a new tool to combat virus
CORPUS CHRISTI -- A year after West Nile virus ravaged Texas and infected seven people in Corpus Christi, the city and county are eyeing a new tool to prevent the spread of the mosquito-born disease: aerial spraying. Aerial spraying hasn't been used in Corpus Christi, meaning the health district in recent years relied on truck spraying to tackle the virus, said Corpus Christi Police ...
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Obesity is a disease not just problem
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Patricia Carangi keeps very busy. She says she's like many others who find it difficult to get to the gym on a daily basis. "Some people live a busy lifestyle and their kids," said Carangi. "They're consumed with their daily lives with work and they just don't have time to take care of themselves." Carangi says losing weight has been difficult for ...
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HOAs to allow water efficient landscapes
AUSTIN (KXAN) - In a move to increase water conservation, theres a new law that keeps home owner associations (HOA) from banning water-efficient landscaping. Governor Perry signed the legislation, SB 198, Friday. A HOA can still require approval before switching landscapes and they can set guidelines on what kind of plants are ok as long as they don't "unreasonably restrict" ...
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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 ...
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LS Power NRG add new generation in time to meet Texas power use
HOUSTON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:08pm EDT HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The Sandy Creek coal plant has begun operating in McLennan County, a year later than planned after the boiler was damaged during initial testing, an LS Power official said this week. The 925-megawatt coal-fired plant, one of only a few new coal plants being completed across the country, has come online in time ...
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Texas Senate Passes Bill That May Close Down Several Abortion Clinics
Senate Bill 5, passed Tuesday in a vote of 20 to 10 after about six hours of debate, would require abortion clinics to be held to ambulatory surgical centers' standards. The costly nature of refitting the clinics to those standards could result in the shuttering of at least 32 of Texas' 38 abortion-providing facilities.According to Elizabeth Graham, director of the Texas chapter of ...
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EPA levies $2.5M penalty against U.S. cement maker
BOISE, Idaho -- The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air Act.Ash Grove Cement Co.'s penalty was announced Wednesday by the EPA and U.S. Department of Justice, part of a deal in which the Kansas-based ...
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Rick Perry bashes New York in ad to attract businesses to Texas
Photo credit: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Getty Images) Texas Gov. Rick Perry threw a gauntlet at the Empire State Wednesday in an attempt to woo employers to his neighborhood. The former presidential candidate stars in a TV ad that urges businesses to come to Texas by painting New York as a heavy taxer and business-unfriendly state. "If you're tired of the same old recipe . . . get out ...
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Corpus Christi Police receive several complaints about disputes with auto mechanic shops
The Corpus Christi Police Department's Auto Theft Task Force would like to warn the public to check references for an auto mechanic before placing a vehicle in a shop for ...
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Michael Curry a favorite in 76ers coaching search JUN 19
05:10 PM ET 06.19 | The Philadelphia 76ers were one of the first teams to usher their head coach out this offseason. They just might be one of the last team's to fill the opening. The Sixers haven't been involved in many rumors compared to other head coaching searches, and that could mean that they have an in-house favorite in former coach Doug Collins' assistant Michael Curry. As ...
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Manu Ginobili not sure how Spurs will re-enerize for Game 7 JUN 19
Heat . They had pushed Miami to the brink and had to win just one more game to close them out and hoist yet another trophy with a Big 3 many believe is superior to that of ...
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Wizards Bradley Beal iffy for summer league JUN 19
Wizards guard Bradley Beal is questionable to participate in the Las Vegas summer league that begins on July 12 as he slowly recovers from a stress fracture in his leg. A source told the Washington Post that it's "not imperative" Beal plays in the summer league. Though he's been inching his way back and could be cleared to go full out by the beginning of July, it's ...
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Rivers to meet with Celtics on Wednesday JUN 19
Celtics fans have been waiting for answers when it comes to the future of the team, and those answers appear to be coming shortly. After a whirlwind of a weekend that had Doc ...
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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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