NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season

The Miami Herald - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what's considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest ...

Taylor Swift dazzles and has Austin seeing Red

Examiner - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Taylor Swift arrived on stage opening her set with 'State Of Grace.' She was accompanied with a seven-piece band, fourteen backup dancers and plenty of fireworks to energize her adoring audience. Seven months of planning and rehearsals went into readying for the 'Red' Tour and both set and costumes are outstanding. There were a total of 11 wardrobe changes and one can't ...

1000 more lawyers in North Texas Probably a good thing

Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Bill Munck, managing partner The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show legal services jobs in the Dallas-Irving-Plano metro area have returned to pre-Great Recession levels, with about 1,100 more people -- mostly lawyers -- employed in the industry than in 2011. Total legal services employment in the area is about 21,500, according to the bureau's stats compiled by ...

Austin No. 10 for engineering jobs

Austin Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Austin has been ranked as one of the top markets with the highest demands for engineers. Austin has been ranked the No. 10 market in the U.S. with one of the highest demands for engineers, according to a survey by Monster Worldwide Inc. The Monster (NYSE: MWW) survey also revealed that the top five engineering occupations across the nation are: Companies surveyed also indicated they were looking ...

Primera Cos. finishes Legacy Business Park project

Dallas Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Primera Cos. Inc. has completed its office project at 5151 Headquarters Drive in Legacy Business Park in Plano. The firm plans to begin marketing the property. One of the office developments in Legacy Business Park has been completed. Dallas-based Primera Cos. Inc., along with developer Myers & Crow Co. Ltd, has finished its two-story, 51,333-square-foot office building called Headquarters Place ...

New DPS plane named for slain Texas Ranger Doherty

Associated Press - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The newest airplane being used by the Department of Public Safety carries the name of a Texas Ranger slain in the line of duty 35 years ...

Solar plane completes second leg of cross-country flight in Texas

Reuters - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

DALLAS | Thu May 23, 2013 1:15pm EDT DALLAS May 23 (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The spindly experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse, touched down at Dallas/Forth Worth International ...

Neiman Saks merger not likely to happen soon analyst says Video

Dallas Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on today's "Top Headlines." She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Neiman Marcus' private equity owners have held on to the retailer for eight years. Don't expect a merger between Neiman Marcus Group and Saks Fifth Avenue to happen anytime soon, even though news reports are swirling that such a ...

Crisp Climate change reaches scary milestone

Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

In this April 22, 2013 photo, fisherman Desmond Augustin stands on a breakwater of old tires and driftwood that local residents fashioned to try and protect their fishing village in Telegraph, Grenada. The people along this vulnerable stretch of eastern Grenada have been watching the sea eat away at their shoreline in recent decades, a result of destructive practices such as sand mining and a ...

Armed person reported near Webb school

KXAN 36 - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police on Thursday were looking for someone who might have been armed after leaving a bank in the area of Webb Middle School. The report prompted authorities to lock down the school around 10:30 a.m. while the searching continued. According to police, a person was acting suspiciously at a bank near St. Johns Avenue and Interstate 35. They said the person may have been planning to ...

Shuttered NM plant resumes making peanut butter

Tampa Bay Online - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered nine months ago after a salmonella outbreak is making nut butter ...

Restrictions for Capitol complex projects increase

Austin Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Public private partnerships within downtown Austin's Capitol complex could face new limitations in light of legislation nearing passage. The Senate approved House Bill 3436, authored by Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, which prohibits the Texas Facilities Commission and the General Land Office from disposing of land in the Capitol complex. If the bill passes, the commission will be able to develop ...

Fire destroys home in Leander

KXAN 36 - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) - A fire destroyed a home in 23500 block of Fulkes Lane Leander on Thursday morning. No one was injured and two dogs inside the house were rescued. The fire was reported at around 9 a.m. Extra crews were called in to put it out. KXAN has a crew in place and this report will be updated as more details ...

Bill to rein in Texas events fund passes House

Austin Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Sen. Kirk Watson The scope of projects receiving reimbursement from two of Texas' event trust funds is set to change due to a bill passed by the House this week. Senate Bill 1678, filed by State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, seeks to make economic incentive programs relating to events more effective and to improve on the general administration of the programs. It proposes limiting Texas' ...

Parkland takes step toward paying $1.4M settlement

WOAI - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

DALLAS (AP) — The board of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas has voted to pay $1.4 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare and Medicaid.The proposed agreement with the U.S. Justice Department was approved late Wednesday. Parkland does not admit liability in the settlement.The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/12xEWQW ) reports details remain confidential because ...

Man gets life for razor attack on Texas barber

WOAI - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — A man who claimed self-defense has been sentenced to life in prison for grabbing a razor and slitting the throat of an East Texas barber during a robbery.Jurors in Nacogdoches earlier convicted Timothy Blanton of Garrison of aggravated robbery. The attack last July at a barber shop in Nacogdoches also left Chester Pleasant with hand and shoulder wounds.Blanton ...

Federal indictment in real estate investment scam

WOAI - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HOUSTON (AP) — A 52-year-old Houston man who portrayed himself as a pastor running a religious-themed investment program is charged with 24 counts of fraud for what federal prosecutors say was a real estate scheme that cost a Mississippi woman $650,000.U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson says Samuel Ray Palasota has surrendered to authorities and was to appear before a federal magistrate in ...

WATCH Burning railroad bridge collapses in Central Texas

WOAI - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

(Jamie Smart, Jamie Smart via KXAN) SAN SABA, Texas (AP) — A 300-yard wooden railroad bridge in Central Texas has fallen after catching fire in a dramatic collapse captured on cellphone ...

Texan could get life term $5M fine over meth ring

WOAI - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A North Texas man faces up to life in prison and a $5 million fine for his role in running a methamphetamine ring.Federal prosecutors in Fort Worth on Wednesday announced Jermaine Duane Irvin was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The 41-year-old Arlington man has been in custody since being arrested Feb. 28 at his home.A ...

NuStar CEO says low demand increased competition hurting shipping-fuel business

Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

NuStar Energy Curt Anastasio says the shipping-fuel business is being impacted by low demand and increased competition. Lower margins are taking a bite of pipeline company NuStar Energy LPs business of bunkering, or supplying heavy fuel to ships, CEO Curt Anastasio told the National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships MLP Investor Conference on Wednesday. There has been pressure lately ...

HKS will spend Memorial Day weekend moving

Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HKS Inc. plans to move its headquarters into Patriot Tower this Memorial Day weekend. Dallas-based architecture and design firm HKS Inc. plans to make a big move over the Memorial Day weekend, relocating its headquarters to One Dallas Center, formerly known as Patriot Tower, in downtown Dallas. HKS plans to move into 142,000-square feet, or the first seven floors of the 30-story, ...

Exclusive Gus Hinojosa joins HKS boosts interior group

Business Journal - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Gus Hinojosa of Hinojosa Architecture & Interiors has joined Dallas-based HKS Inc. His firm is scheduled to dissolve by year's end after finishing client projects. Longtime interior designer Gus Hinojosa has taken his expertise to Dallas-based HKS Inc., which will boost the firm's commercial interiors group. Hinojosa's design firm Hinojosa Architecture & Interiors is expected to ...