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New Macs Will Be Made in Texas Apple CEO Says
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., worked to defuse a hearing room full of angry U.S. senators on Tuesday by saying that a new line of Macs will be assembled -- drum roll, please -- in ...
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Tucker Company Worldwide Opens Texas Sales Office
Cherry Hill, N.J.-based freight broker 's volume originates and delivers in Texas, and the company wanted to have more direct contact with customers in that region, Tucker said in a written ...
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Atmos CEO talks shale boom natural gas exports
Kim Cocklin of Atmos Energy Conventional wisdom would say that natural gas utilities love high gas prices. Thats not the case. This week, I talked to Kim Cocklin, CEO of Atmos Energy (NYSE: ATM), about the shale boom and how the price fluctuations of the past few years have affected his industry, which provides natural gas to 1.8 million customers in North, West and Central Texas. Utilities such ...
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Judge orders more monitoring for Dallas Brent
reports.In a Friday court hearing, prosecutors said Brent violated the terms of his release by setting off an alcohol-monitoring device and failing to download data from it as required. Judge Robert Burns issued the order but did not raise Brent's $100,000 bond, according to the AP.Brent is scheduled to go on trial in September for the Dec. 8 crash. Regardless of the outcome, ...
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Huffines Communities begins next phase of Viridian in Arlington
The Viridian master-planned community in Arlington is being developed by Huffines Communities, which is working with David Weekley Homes, among other homebuilders. Dallas-based Huffines Communities is getting ready to start the next phase of Viridian, a $2 billion master-planned community in north Arlington. Last year, a number of homes were under construction at the 2,300-acre site, north of ...
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Fitch Upgrades San Antonio TX DSP Waterworks System
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Veterans How the military helped me in business
John Holloway, Senior Attorney, Atmos Energy During my time as 1st Lieutenant with the US Army Combat Engineers, I learned to get along with all different types of people. It also taught me that I could accomplish a lot more than I thought I was capable of with hard work and perseverance. I also learned that in some situations you might respectfully disagree with your boss, but its important to ...
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Owner of sick abandoned dog charged with cruelty
AUSTIN (KXAN) - When a Northwest Austin apartment manager went to check in on a former tenants residence in early April, she expected to find it empty, but what she found on the back porch was an unwelcome and unsightly surprise. It was cold and raining outside. The tenant had terminated his lease three days earlier. But there, huddled in the corner of the porch, was a white terrier with dirty, ...
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RadioShack hopes new marketing strategy leads to turnaround
RadioShack's management team is hoping the company will make a turnaround with its new marketing strategies that target a wider audience and create a playful atmosphere. RadioShack Corp. leaders are hoping the company's revamped branding strategy will encourage new and current customers to do exactly what its new tagline expresses: Lets play. The Fort Worth-based electronics retailer is ...
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Report Austin Ventures wants $450M to fund startups
Austin Ventures LP is reportedly going back to targeting the type of companies that helped it grow initially early-stage startups. The Austin investment firm plans to raise a $450 million fund to focus on those types of companies, Bloomberg reported Friday. Austin Ventures, the dominant investment firm in Texas, has been largely focused on less risky later-stage investments in recent years ...
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Senate expected to confirm UT regents
AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Senate is expected to confirm three of Gov. Rick Perry's appointments to the University of Texas System regents, positions that are being closely watched as lawmakers have clashed with the board in recent months. The board is the governing body for the nine-campus system and Perry has re-appointed vice chairman Paul Foster of El Paso to a new six year term. New ...
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Primera Energys well near Three Rivers beats expectations
Primera Energy LLC's second well in the Eagle Ford Shale has exceeded the company's expectations. Primera Energy LLCs second well in the Eagle Ford Shale has gone into production at roughly double the expected output. The Screaming Eagle 2H well near the town of Three Rivers this week began producing with a flow rate of 1,150 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The company had predicted a ...
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ROC pastor released for transfer to Texas
RICHMOND -- Geronimo Aguilar, senior pastor at the Richmond Outreach Center, was released from a Richmond jail this morning for his scheduled transfer to Texas to face sexual assault ...
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Galveston judge suspended by state after arrest
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A state judicial ethics commission has suspended a Galveston judge without pay following his arrest on eight charges related to his actions from the bench.Galveston County Court-at-Law Judge Christopher Dupuy showed up for work Thursday to hear a divorce case, a day after his arrest, and said he intended to remain on the job unless he was convicted or removed. He ...
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Texan charged with vehicular homicide in La.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A 74-year-old Texas woman has been indicted on a charge of vehicular homicide.The American Press reports a Calcasieu Parish grand jury returned an indictment against Millie Adams Francis Powell of Port Arthur on Thursday for the March 1 death of 92-yeaer-old Rubye McGown Jones.State police said Powell was traveling north on La. Highway 109 when she rear-ended a ...
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Insured Texas tornadoes damage could reach $250M
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An industry group says insured damage from last week's deadly tornadoes in North Texas could reach $250 million.Mark Hanna with the Insurance Council of Texas says the rough estimate could change as insurers continue to gather information from the May 15 storms.A twister killed six people in Granbury where dozens of homes were damaged. Tornadoes also left behind ...
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Central Texas man finds joy in breeding birds
NAVASOTA, Texas (AP) — About 20 years ago, a friend of Carroll Myers asked Myers if he could take care of his birds since he was moving out of town."I said, 'Sure,' thinking I'd be getting a cage with two birds in it," Myers said, laughing. "Well I come home from work and in my back yard is an outdoor aviary with 75 American parakeets. I said, 'All ...
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Dallas Stars accidentally leak new look logo
The Dallas Stars are set to unveil their new uniform and logo on June 4th but it appears the new design may have been leaked ahead of schedule.According to several internet postings, fans reported seeing the new logo as part of the wallpaper offering on the team's iPhone application. The new logo features the letter D with the five protruding points of a star in a predominant green, black ...
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Texas Property Rights Upheld in Pipeline Ruling
A company seeking to run a pipeline across East Texas instead crossed the wrong Texan, and now a state appeals court ruling in the dispute could make it harder to condemn land and snatch private property for future ...
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Fueled By The Sun Solar Impulse Lands In Dallas And Shatters World Distance Record
Powered solely by the Sun, Solar Impulse, which has the wingspan of a jumbo jet and weighs less than a compact car, successfully flew from Phoenix to Dallas on Thursday, May 23, to complete the longest leg of the Across America mission, which will conclude in New York. The 950 mile flight to DFW Airport set a new world distance record in solar ...
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Luxury Kings Gate mansion in Plano sells at auction
A luxury Kings Gate mansion in Plano sold at auction Thursday. It took 11 bidders, but New York-based Concierge Auctions says the luxury Plano mansion, known as Grand Gables at Kings Gate, says it received the highest recorded sales price Thursday for a Kings Gate property in the past four years. The home was previously marketed for $6.5 million. Terms of the auction, such as the sales price and ...
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Galveston leaders to meet over Ike housing story
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- Leaders of a Southeast Texas city will meet Tuesday to discuss legal options over a newspaper story about where to build new public housing since Hurricane ...
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Judge orders more monitoring for Cowboys DT
DALLAS (AP) -- A judge has ordered more alcohol monitoring for a Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle awaiting trial on an intoxicated manslaughter ...
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Dallas-based trader charged with front-running
a Dallas-based broker who allegedly improperly profited by placing his own secret trades ahead of large block trades he executed for clients. The agency charges that the trader, Daniel Bergin, was "front-running" his client trades, an illegal practice where a stock broker executes orders on a security for their own account while taking advantage of knowledge of pending large ...
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Americas oldest veteran to spend quiet Memorial Day at Texas home
World War II veteran Richard Overton, left, is seen in his Army uniform in an undated photograph provided by the City of Austin. Overton, 107, sits outside his Texas home earlier this month. (AP/Austin American ...
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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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