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Compare Metrics filing reveals more funding details
A regulatory filing provided additional details about the Compare Metrics Inc. Series A financing announced earlier this week. The Austin-based software maker received nearly $4.4 million from 12 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools for e-commerce websites with a ...
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Safety traffic economic development among Arts Districts top goals
Catherine Cuellar, executive director of Dallas Arts District. It may not be a sexy issue, but safety in the Dallas Arts District will be one of Catherine Cuellar's top goals as executive director of the district, she told me in a recent interview. Cuellar, who started her new job on April 15, said without a safe environment, nothing else matters. That refers to both crime and to the tension ...
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Shouting match erupts in the Texas house over gun rights
Kaufman County prosecutors Mark Hasse and Mike McLelland. Mr. McLelland's wife was also killed. A shouting match erupted in the house last night over the amendment. According to ...
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Man faces arson charge after Houston fire
The Houston Fire Department says one firefighter suffered a minor hand injury in the blaze extinguished early Friday. Several units suffered heavy ...
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Snooki NJ Gov Christie just doesnt like us
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was never a fan of MTV's "Jersey Shore," saying it unfairly cast the state in a negative ...
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Girl Scouts Lemonade Day success reaching Bangladesh
Contributed photo Mayor Nelda Martinez pours water for a batch of lemonade on May 5 at the stand operated by Girl Scout Elizabeth Schmidt and her friend Justin Kar. Chamber of Commerce Director Foster Edwards looks on. The stand’s $446 profit is being donated to Justin’s uncle to help pay for removal of a brain ...
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Crime Stoppers 2013 20
Published May 19, 2013 Police are looking for information on Nueces County's 10 Most Wanted. Call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS or visit www.888tips.com to report ...
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Austin now 11th-largest but where are these people coming from
Austin is the 11th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of about 843,000, but it's the 33rd-largest metro area in the country with about 1.8 million residents. The recent news that Austin is the 11th-largest U.S. city, according to Census numbers, shocked a lot of people. We're growing fast, but that fast? It seems like only yesterday we were ranked No. 13. Oh, wait, that was ...
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Smells like special session at Texas Capitol
Lawmakers have until Monday to wrap up their regular-session work. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is keeping quiet until the last moment on whether a special session will occur, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has made it clear he wants one. At the start of May, Perry advised lawmakers that one of the best ways to avoid a special session would be to show him a budget with $1.8 billion of tax relief for ...
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Bill to require drug tests for unemployment benefits passes Texas Senate
A Texas Senate bill that would make drug screening or testing a condition for receiving unemployment compensation benefits by certain individuals passed favorably out of the House Wednesday. Senate Bill 21, authored by State Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would amend Texas Labor Code so that individuals in industries designated by the U.S. Department of Labor as regularly conducting ...
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Flexjet sees business take off as economy improves
A Challenger private jet. Dallas-based Flexjet reported that new business grew 83 percent in the first quarter. Flexjet, the world's second largest fractional jet ownership services provider, said that sales of fractional shares grew 108 percent in the quarter and that new jet card sales grew by 48 percent. The company offers fractional aircraft ownership, jet card and whole aircraft ...
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Arlington woman on death row for 9-year-old boys starvation loses appeal
HOUSTON — An Arlington woman on Texas death row for the starvation death of a 9-year-old boy has lost a federal court appeal, moving her a step closer to ...
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Heat Awareness Day in time of Memorial Day Weekend
KXAN (Austin) - With the holiday weekend kicking off, summer activities, many are reminded to beware of the deadly heat. Friday is Heat Awareness Day. The National Weather Service said heat is one of the leading weather-realted killers in the U.S. "Take extra precaution on those mornings you have a change in routine such as someone different taking the child to take care or sleeping late ...
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Dewhurst to Perry Call special session
AUSTIN (AP) -- With legislative adjournment looming on Monday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he wants Gov. Rick Perry to call a special session to seek passage of failed legislation insisted upon by conservative ...
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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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Is the student-beating teacher being used as scapegoat?
Without question, the shocking video footage of a Houston school teacher attacking and beating a cowering 13-year-old student shows something wrong and something that should never ever occur in the classroom. But recent revelations surrounding the events leading up to the incident, and the conditions at the school itself, seem to suggest that this teacher was pushed to the limit by a flawed school system, as well as her own lack of training to deal with the rigors of a stressful and provocative teaching environment.
On April 29th Sheri Lynn Davis attacked a student in her class, the footage has now gone viral on the internet and shows an incident that seems to represent a complete breakdown of the system. In the video the 13-year-old student is seen backed into a corner of the room with Davis standing before him in a position indicative of an imminent attack, the boy cowers down at which point the beating begins. Read more
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