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Board backs plan to spruce up Astrodome
HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space. The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. on Wednesday opted to go with its own plan for the world's first domed, air-conditioned stadium instead of one of 19 private-sector plans submitted for its reuse. The board says the ...
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Food trucks all the rage in Austin
food truck base. In fact, whole websites have even been built to showcase food trailers by cuisine, location, and even roving ones. In fact, even the Austin Chamber of Commerce has an entire section on how to apply for a food trailer ...
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Board backs turning Astrodome into convention hall
HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition ...
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FBI is using drones in America director tells Congress
The Federal Bureau of Investigations employs the use of drones for surveillance on U.S. soil, the agency's director told lawmakers on Wednesday. At an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted the agency is making use of unmanned aircraft, but he did not provide many details, other than to say the information obtained by the drones ...
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Senate GOP says repeal of death tax must be part of tax reform
Senate Republicans on Wednesday said that a repeal of the federal estate tax must be a key component of any tax reform proposal, setting up a showdown with President Obama, who hopes to raise the levy to help reduce the deficit. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Vice President Joe Biden negotiated in January to make permanent the current estate tax parameters as part of the ...
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A year after West Nile plagued Texas aerial spraying a new tool to combat virus
CORPUS CHRISTI -- A year after West Nile virus ravaged Texas and infected seven people in Corpus Christi, the city and county are eyeing a new tool to prevent the spread of the mosquito-born disease: aerial spraying. Aerial spraying hasn't been used in Corpus Christi, meaning the health district in recent years relied on truck spraying to tackle the virus, said Corpus Christi Police ...
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Obesity is a disease not just problem
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Patricia Carangi keeps very busy. She says she's like many others who find it difficult to get to the gym on a daily basis. "Some people live a busy lifestyle and their kids," said Carangi. "They're consumed with their daily lives with work and they just don't have time to take care of themselves." Carangi says losing weight has been difficult for ...
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HOAs to allow water efficient landscapes
AUSTIN (KXAN) - In a move to increase water conservation, theres a new law that keeps home owner associations (HOA) from banning water-efficient landscaping. Governor Perry signed the legislation, SB 198, Friday. A HOA can still require approval before switching landscapes and they can set guidelines on what kind of plants are ok as long as they don't "unreasonably restrict" ...
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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 ...
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LS Power NRG add new generation in time to meet Texas power use
HOUSTON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:08pm EDT HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The Sandy Creek coal plant has begun operating in McLennan County, a year later than planned after the boiler was damaged during initial testing, an LS Power official said this week. The 925-megawatt coal-fired plant, one of only a few new coal plants being completed across the country, has come online in time ...
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Texas Senate Passes Bill That May Close Down Several Abortion Clinics
Senate Bill 5, passed Tuesday in a vote of 20 to 10 after about six hours of debate, would require abortion clinics to be held to ambulatory surgical centers' standards. The costly nature of refitting the clinics to those standards could result in the shuttering of at least 32 of Texas' 38 abortion-providing facilities.According to Elizabeth Graham, director of the Texas chapter of ...
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EPA levies $2.5M penalty against U.S. cement maker
BOISE, Idaho -- The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air Act.Ash Grove Cement Co.'s penalty was announced Wednesday by the EPA and U.S. Department of Justice, part of a deal in which the Kansas-based ...
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Rick Perry bashes New York in ad to attract businesses to Texas
Photo credit: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Getty Images) Texas Gov. Rick Perry threw a gauntlet at the Empire State Wednesday in an attempt to woo employers to his neighborhood. The former presidential candidate stars in a TV ad that urges businesses to come to Texas by painting New York as a heavy taxer and business-unfriendly state. "If you're tired of the same old recipe . . . get out ...
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Corpus Christi Police receive several complaints about disputes with auto mechanic shops
The Corpus Christi Police Department's Auto Theft Task Force would like to warn the public to check references for an auto mechanic before placing a vehicle in a shop for ...
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Michael Curry a favorite in 76ers coaching search JUN 19
05:10 PM ET 06.19 | The Philadelphia 76ers were one of the first teams to usher their head coach out this offseason. They just might be one of the last team's to fill the opening. The Sixers haven't been involved in many rumors compared to other head coaching searches, and that could mean that they have an in-house favorite in former coach Doug Collins' assistant Michael Curry. As ...
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Manu Ginobili not sure how Spurs will re-enerize for Game 7 JUN 19
Heat . They had pushed Miami to the brink and had to win just one more game to close them out and hoist yet another trophy with a Big 3 many believe is superior to that of ...
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Wizards Bradley Beal iffy for summer league JUN 19
Wizards guard Bradley Beal is questionable to participate in the Las Vegas summer league that begins on July 12 as he slowly recovers from a stress fracture in his leg. A source told the Washington Post that it's "not imperative" Beal plays in the summer league. Though he's been inching his way back and could be cleared to go full out by the beginning of July, it's ...
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Rivers to meet with Celtics on Wednesday JUN 19
Celtics fans have been waiting for answers when it comes to the future of the team, and those answers appear to be coming shortly. After a whirlwind of a weekend that had Doc ...
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Appeals court vacates West Texas corruption ruling
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling by a West Texas judge that resulted in a six-year prison sentence for a man accused of fraud.The federal panel determined in a filing Tuesday that the judge interfered with plea negotiations involving Adrian Pena. The El Paso contractor pleaded guilty in December 2010 to fraud for his participation in a scheme to bribe ...
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Future of Houstons historic Astrodome debated
HOUSTON (AP) — Several plans are being debated that could reveal the future of Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome.The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. is meeting Wednesday in Houston to formally consider 19 plans that have been submitted for reusing the stadium.The stadium has been vacant since 2009, when it was deemed unfit for occupancy. It hasn't been ...
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South Texas youngsters help with bird count
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Eight-year-old Irene De La Fuente is already working toward her goal of becoming a superstar birder.And she says she wouldn't be able to do it without the help of the Children's Museum of Brownsville."Here at the Children's Museum they help me a lot. They don't let you just play all day. They just help you focus on your work and show you ...
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Review Thirty-five years on “Manhattan” sparkles
Iconic director Woody Allen, who last made waves with 2011's acclaimed "Midnight in Paris," is quite literally in love with New York City, and his 1979 film "Manhattan" was certainly meant to be a love letter to that city. This effort is a near perfect film with a charismatic cast led by Allen and Diane Keaton, who also appeared as Allen's love interest in ...
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Entrepreneurship “Boot Camp” offers expert advice
Obed Manuel/Staff Writer The Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship at UNT is hosting its fourth annual Entrepreneurship Boot Camp. The five-week program gives graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to hear from experts in the fields of accounting, legal affairs, investments and other crucial elements of business. The camp began June 6 and runs through July 2. This year, the boot ...
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As wildfires rage feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western ...
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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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