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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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87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch ...
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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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Former leaders of Las Brisas Power Plant development face lawsuit
Las Brisas also is working to develop free training programs, managing partner John Upchurch said at a news conference in 2009. Civil suit addresses "brazen, calculated, persasive and deceptive scheme of embezzlement" in the ill-fated Las Brisas Power Plant development project. See the ...
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SolarImpulse could inspire a generation pilots say
Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andr Borschberg stand with a flag marking the historic flight at DFW airport Thursday morning. Breaking the world record for distance in a solar-powered aircraft wasnt easy for Andre Borschberg. The more than 18-hour flight went 860 miles from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Weather is a constant challenge for the SolarImpulse because of its ...
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Letter to the Editor Anonymous commenters
Randy, because your March LTTE wasn't published, there's no telling whether its topic was as incendiary as that published on January 24: gun control. That gun control LTTE expressed as a secondary theme another hot topic, unfavorable opinions of President Obama and Vice President Biden because they supported gun legislation which you did not. Not surprisingly, most of the 10 online ...
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Vidacare Corp. eyes expansion and acquisition opportunities
Vidacare CEO Mark Mellin says his company is headed on a growth trajectory. Vidacare Corp. has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. While a host of other startups in the bioscience space have come and gone since 2001, this San Antonio company has positioned itself as a the preeminent player in the intraosseous arena. Vidacare is expanding domestically and internationally sales ...
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Software maker Datical raises $1M financing
From left, Robert Reeves, Daniel Nelson and Pete Pickerill are the founders of Datical Inc. Software maker Datical Inc. completed a $1 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 10 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Datical, which was founded in 2012, develops database management software. It was launched by ...
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GVTC Foundation raises record amount at its annual golf tournament
The GVTC Foundation raised a record$110,344 for area non-profit agencies during its annual Charitable Golf Classic. The GVTC Foundations 2013 GVTC Charitable Golf Classic raised $110,344 for area non-profit agencies, besting last years record by $1,000. The foundation affiliated with Hill Country telecommunications provider GVTC Communications Inc. will use the funds to support nonprofit ...
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Life after 40 Under 40 Joe Tauscher on why metrics matter
Joe Tauscher I was fortunate to be honored by the Dallas Business Journal in 2006 when I was 28 and was the president of Checkpast, an employment screening services firm selling to large Fortune 1000 companies including Toys R US, Ross Dress for Less, Williams and Sonoma, ADT, Simplex Grinnell, Brinks, and State Farm. I sold the business the last day of 2009. My mission at the time, was to prove ...
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Lawmakers reach consensus on campus construction bonds
An agreement has been reached on allocating an additional $175 million for debt service to accommodate a major round of construction projects on numerous public university campuses across Texas. The Senate gave final approval to the measure House Bill 1025, authored by State Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie on Wednesday evening. The House had previously proposed $200 million in additional ...
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Gone fishin Dallas firm buys sells trophy sporting ranches
The ranches owned by Sporting Ranch Capital Management offer hunting, fishing and great views. Jay Ellis' business is all about the wide open spaces. It's about hunting for elk or mule deer and it's about fishing for trout. It's also about making money. Ellis heads Dallas-based Sporting Ranch Capital Management LP, which has nearly completed its first $30 million investment fund ...
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Solar Impulse airplane is setting solar-powered flight record in Texas
Solar Impulse plane landed in Dallas on Thursday, breaking the distance record for a solar-powered flight on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across ...
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Ammonium nitrate chemical behind texas explosion is all over the United States
Smoke rises in the distance about half a mile from the West Fertilizer Company, April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. A massive explosion at the fertilizer company injured more than 200 people and left damaged buildings for blocks in every direction. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty ...
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Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination
DALLAS--Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling ...
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Texas approves $867600 in trail funding for San Antonio area projects
Texas Parks and Wildlife officials are pumping new money into the development of new state parks. Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission officials awarded $5.7 million in federal grants to fund the development of 33 recreational trail projects across the state. Of that total, $867,600 will go toward four projects in the San Antonio area. The Schertz Seguin Local Government Corp. in Guadalupe County ...
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Houston man charged in threats against synagogues
Prosecutors say bomb threats were called in to two Houston synagogues on April 30. The caller left voice mails with Congregation Beth Israel and Congregation Or Ami (or uh-MEE') saying both would be bombed on May ...
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Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- High school students in Virginia have finished building NASA a spinning chair that astronauts in Texas will use to practice being ...
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Deputy shot by Colo. suspect to return to work
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A North Texas sheriff's deputy has been cleared to return to work, two months after he was shot by a paroled inmate suspected of slaying Colorado's prison ...
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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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