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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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Video government meetings allowed under bill
AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences. The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public officials to use ...
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VIDEO Texas has 8 of the fastest growing US cities
HOUSTON (AP) — New estimates show Texas has eight of the nation's 15 fastest-growing cities.Estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show San Marcos in Central Texas led the way with a nearly 5 percent population boom between July 2011 and July 2012. That's the highest rate among U.S. cities with at least 50,000 ...
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Special Report Poor planning left Texas firefighters unprepared
A housing complex is seen after it was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas, in this April 21 file photo. (Michael Ainsworth/Reuters/Pool) The fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 others in Texas last month highlights the failings of a U.S. federal law intended to save lives during chemical accidents, a Reuters investigation has ...
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Body pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet
BURNET, Texas (KXAN) - The body of a young man was pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet on Thursday morning. Clara Tuma, a spokeswoman from the Lower Colorado River Authority said the victim was a teenager who fell from a paddle boat into the water around 11 a.m. Dive teams and rescue crews from several agencies were called in to help search. The lake was about 10 feet deep where the teen's body ...
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2500 doping tests planned for Sochi Olympics
MOSCOW (AP) — Sochi's anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year's Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.Alexei Slautin, head of Sochi's anti-doping section, said in a statement Thursday on the Russian Sports Ministry's web site that another 600 tests are planned for the Paralympics.The World Anti-Doping ...
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Open Meetings Act to allow video teleconferences
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences.The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public ...
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Orange Co. paves way for economic growth
Orange County Commissioners have unanimously approved a resolution to nominate International Paper as a double jumbo enterprise project and entered into a contract with iDocket.com for the company to provide public, fee-based access to records of the district and county clerk ...
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To lie is to steal
Is BISD a victim in this woman’s plot or should they be held accountable for not verifying Lambert’s credentials before passing over many others who might have been twice as qualified as she? Every student, parent, teacher and educator should contact Superintendent Timothy Chargois and the BISD board immediately and express - no, demand - that this fraud be heralded as a lie and ask ...
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40-year sentence in Beaumont murder
Deanna Edwards Wilson, 41, was indicted for the murder of Elkin Savoy, 58, whose body was found Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, burned and maimed as a result of an apparent ...
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End of an era at OHA
After nearly a decade at the Orange Housing Authority (OHA), president of the board of commissioners Mary McKenna has moved on to greener pastures, now representing taxpayers as a member of the Orange City Council instead. During the last few years of her tenure at OHA, McKenna has seen the departure of two executive directors; one was let go rather than outright fired after a report from ...
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Texas painter immortalizes fallen soldiers
Some artists paint to express themselves or as a form of therapy- to get out feelings trapped inside. Others use art as a path to immortality, using their works to carry on their own names. Ken Pridgeon paints to immortalize others - fallen soldiers who not only fought and died for their country, but were also mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, daughters and sons mourned by their families. On ...
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Lunch at the ranch
A group including local politicians, business and community leaders, and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies welcomed the consul general of Qatar, Faisal Abdulla Al-Henzab, to the ranch of former Jefferson County judge and business consultant Carl Griffith on Friday, May 17, to celebrate the blooming friendship and business relationship between Qatar and Jefferson ...
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Plants can keep mosquitos at bay
Well … most everyone has them but no one likes them. Mosquitoes have been around forever, and will probably be here for a while longer. What can you do to cut down on your mosquito population? In addition to tips to keep areas dry, certain plants can be added to our yard that those pesky mosquitoes don’t like. They don’t like them at ...
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How important is reading and remembering
While talking to a young man the other day about the Lord and His work, we each spoke about reading the Bible. I was interested to hear the very well educated fellow say, "It doesn’t really do me any good to read the Bible or go to church. I just can’t seem to remember very much of it any time later." He’s in good company. Well, perhaps not good company, but joined by ...
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Free medical alert means new Medicare scam
Seniors all over Texas are receiving phone calls from individuals who want to make an appointment to come to your home and deliver a new Medical Alert that is all paid for by Medicare. But the truth is, Medicare does not pay for medical alert systems and this item is not free! This is merely a trick for you to give out personal information over the phone to ...
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Vidor church to help out victims of Moore tornado
First Pentecostal Church in Vidor is accepting donations to aid the victims of an EF4 tornado that devastated Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20. A May 21 press release from Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin states that three days of tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding have killed more than 50 people and injured more than 120 in Cleveland (where Moore is located), Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and ...
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‘Monster’ catfish caught at Eagle Mountain Lake
The two men had taken off work a little early to go sand bass fishing —they caught about 60 of those — and were not expecting to tangle with a ...
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Other companies challenging contraception mandate
DENVER -; Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally objectionable, such as certain types of ...
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Review “Fast Furious 6” impressive and gripping
From left, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Bridges, Gal Gadot, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster and Sung Kang star in "Fast & Furious 6." Photo courtesy of Universal ...
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Review “The Hangover Part III” tired and unfunny
From left, Zach Galifianakis as Alan, Bradley Cooper as Phil and Ed Helms as Stu in "The Hangover Part III." Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary ...
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Hurricane forecast Another busy Atlantic season
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 ...
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NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season
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 ...
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Taylor Swift dazzles and has Austin seeing Red
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 ...
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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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