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Leals well-placed hits pace Calallens victory over Flour Bluff in baseball quarterfinal opener
Photos by GEORGE GONGORA/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Calallen’s Preston Dorsey makes solid contact during Thursday’s Region IV-4A quarterfinal opener against Flour Bluff at Steve Chapman Field. Calallen's Mikey Leal seems to follow the advice of old-time major leaguer "Wee" Willie Keeler: "Hit 'em where they ain't." That proved most irksome for ...
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Bastrop pastor found guilty of animal cruelty
A jury deliberated less than an hour Friday to find Bastrop pastor Rick Bartlett guilty of animal cruelty in connection with the death of a cat he trapped in his neighborhood.County Court-at-Law Judge Terry Flenniken scheduled a June 24 sentencing for the 56-year-old Bartlett, who was a chaplain for the Bastrop Police Department and pastor at Bastrop Christian Church at the time of his ...
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UT graduation highlights busy weekend
AUSTIN (KXAN) - This is one special weekend for the students, family and friends of University of Texas graduates. Many will be flooding by foot to the Frank Erwin Center, and especially the UT Tower on Saturday night to watch the ceremonies , so take extra precaution driving anywhere around the area. If you're not participating, it will be best to steer clear of the 40 acres altogether. ...
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Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Power lines damaged by Wednesday's tornado litter the streets in Cleburne, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday ...
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Psychotic Voicemail From Losing Dallas Candidate To Reporter Goes Viral
Screenshot of Richard Sheridan clearly in action with a characteristic NSFW diatribe. Sore losers are a ‘feisty’ bunch. That’s a good word… feisty. Some other words that apply are whiny ...
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Texas tornado victim ‘it’s really devastating’
texas , officially the search for the missing is over. all are accounted for. the focus is on the devastation and the far-off recovery for the town and the region to the west of ft. worth ...
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Man in custody in death of son grandson
FAIRVIEW, Texas (AP) -- Police say an 83-year-old man has been taken into custody after his son and grandson were found shot to death in the North Texas home all three ...
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Child Dies After Being Left in Car in School Parking Lot
According to police, at about 1:20 p.m., someone spotted the child unattended in a car parked in the faculty parking lot at Frank Guzick Elementary School at 5000 Berridge ...
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Fitch Rates Texas AM Univ System Rev Financing System Bonds AA+ Outlook Stable
California's Fiscally Disciplined Budget Positive Fitch Ratings views California's fiscal 2014 budget as continuing the disciplined approach to fiscal management shown by the state in recent years. California's economic outlook cautiously forecasts that the expiration of the federal payroll tax holiday and federal sequestration cuts will have a modestly negative impact on ...
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Watch Teen Nabs 14-Foot Gator in Texas Hunt
Braxton deals he has been a hunter since he was eight years old. He's now eighteen and he's wanted to hunt alligators for years. -- if if parliament does a in my that was from the union for any ...
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Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman left off final nominations list
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman soon may be hitting the bricks, barring a last-minute change of heart in the state Senate. Kitzman's name does not appear on the list of nominees published in advance of a Monday hearing of the Senate Nominations Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Glenn Hegar Jr., R-Katy. It is mostly likely the committee's final ...
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Construction to start on $600000 Lamar Volunteer Fire Department station
CORPUS CHRISTI -- About 25 Lamar volunteer firefighters soon will have a new station to call home. Construction will start next month on a steel, hurricane-ready, 9,300-square-foot building in the 300 block of Bois D' Arc Street, officials said. Officials said the building, more than double the size of the current fire station, is expected to have four bays, a training room, office, ...
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Standoff between harbor pilots refineries raises questions about port commissioner conflicts
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Beach to Bay preparations
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-TimesVolunteers sort through thousands of bags Friday at the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach as runners pick up their bags for the annual Beach to Bay relay marathon, which is ...
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House OKs major changes to state cancer institute
AUSTIN (AP) The Texas House has approved a dramatic overhaul of the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency, including replacing its entire, 11-member board. The lower chamber used a simple voice vote Friday to give preliminary approval to one of the most-watched bills in the Texas Legislature. It mandates sweeping changes to the embattled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute ...
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New bike lanes open on Barton Springs
AUSTIN (KXAN) - On "Bike to Work Day", Austin opened up its latest bike lane Friday. It stretches from South 1st Street to Lamar Boulevard on Barton Springs Road. The next generation of bike lane is more family friendly. The west bound side boasts a wider sidewalk to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians. The east bound side now has a seven foot wide bike lane with markers to keep the ...
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Proceed as the way opens
BASTROP (KXAN) - It was just one among the hundreds of hard-to-fathom stories from that Labor Day weekend in 2011 in Bastrop County. Mama and I were in the back, in the big house, in our house, recalled Ed Steinbring, a retiree from Houston who had settled down with his wife, Sue, in the Lost Pines area of the county. Living in a home on nine acres, they also three other houses on the site, all ...
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Proceed as the way opens
BASTROP (KXAN) - It was just one among the hundreds of hard-to-fathom stories from that Labor Day weekend in 2011 in Bastrop County. Mama and I were in the back, in the big house, in our house, recalled Ed Steinbring, a retiree from Houston who had settled down with his wife, Sue, in the Lost Pines area of the county. Living in a home on nine acres, they also three other houses on the site, all ...
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Proceed as the way opens
BASTROP (KXAN) - It was just one among the hundreds of hard-to-fathom stories from that Labor Day weekend in 2011 in Bastrop County. Mama and I were in the back, in the big house, in our house, recalled Ed Steinbring, a retiree from Houston who had settled down with his wife, Sue, in the Lost Pines area of the county. Living in a home on nine acres, they also three other houses on the site, all ...
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Proceed as the way opens
BASTROP (KXAN) - It was just one among the hundreds of hard-to-fathom stories from that Labor Day weekend in 2011 in Bastrop County. Mama and I were in the back, in the big house, in our house, recalled Ed Steinbring, a retiree from Houston who had settled down with his wife, Sue, in the Lost Pines area of the county. Living in a home on nine acres, they also three other houses on the site, all ...
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Proceed as the way opens
BASTROP (KXAN) - It was just one among the hundreds of hard-to-fathom stories from that Labor Day weekend in 2011 in Bastrop County. Mama and I were in the back, in the big house, in our house, recalled Ed Steinbring, a retiree from Houston who had settled down with his wife, Sue, in the Lost Pines area of the county. Living in a home on nine acres, they also three other houses on the site, all ...
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OSHA impersonator gets 57 months in oil spill scam
spill NEW ORLEANS - A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that 47-year-old Connie Knight, formerly of Belle Chasse, had claimed to be an Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety instructor. She held classes in ...
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Perry tours neighborhood hit by deadly tornado
A man walks in front of a home damaged by Wednesday's tornado in Cleburne, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Ron Russek ...
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Legislature approves South Texas medical school
The House on Friday passed a constitutional amendment already approved by the Senate which seeks to open, as early as 2016, a medical school along the underserved Texas border with ...
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Energy Dept. approves natural gas export catalyst
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $10 billion natural gas exporting facility in Texas that has significant economic implications, manufacturers say. The project called the Freeport LNG facility was "not inconsistent with the public interest," said the Energy Department, which studied the facility's "economic, energy security, and environmental impacts." The ...
Austin Digest
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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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