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Texas budget standoff shows late signs of easing
AUSTIN (AP) A stalemate over a Texas budget deal eased late Wednesday when the House and Senate finally backed down and took up major pieces of a roughly $100 billion spending package that is the biggest order of business left for the Legislature. The 140-day session ends Monday. Lawmakers are constitutionally required to pass a new two-year budget, and if they don't, Gov. Rick Perry will ...
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HP earnings fall 31 percent but surpass expectations
Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman Hewlett-Packard Co. reported second quarter earnings Wednesday, showing earnings per share of $0.55 or $1.1 billion, a 31 percent decline in earnings from a year ago. Adjusted earnings came in at $0.87 a share or $1.7 billion, exceeding analyst expectations of $0.81 a share. Net revenue fell 10 percent to $27.6 billion, and cash flow came in at $3.6 billion, a 44 ...
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Texas blast shows flaws in emergency planning law
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 found.Known as the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, the law requires companies to tell emergency responders about the hazardous chemicals stored on their ...
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800000 live near stockpiles of Texas blast chemical
NEW YORK - At least 800,000 people across the United States live near hundreds of sites that store large amounts of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate, which investigators are blaming as the source of last month's deadly blast at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, a Reuters analysis ...
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One fatally shot in Southlake Town Square police report
wmiller@star-telegram.com At least one person was fatally shot about 7 p.m. Wednesday in Southlake Town Square by someone who fled in a white sport utility vehicle, police ...
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Solar Impulse setting solar-powered flight record in Texas
The Solar Impulse airplane takes off from Phoenix for Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane went after a distance record for solar-powered flight on Wednesday as it sailed from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across ...
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Jose Canseco Denies Accusation of Sexual Assault in Las Vegas
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco has been accused of sexual assault, Las Vegas police said Wednesday. Police said they contacted Canseco during the morning and he had agreed to be interviewed, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The questioning had yet to take place. Canseco, 48, who lives in Las Vegas, clubbed 462 home runs, was a six-time all-star and won two World Series ...
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Legislature OKs measure mitigating libel lawsuits
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Legislature has approved a bill allowing publishers to mitigate libel lawsuits if the party affected by a mistake doesn't request a correction or ...
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Texas lawmakers OK drug tests for some unemployment applicants
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas came a step closer to requiring some applicants for unemployment benefits to first undergo drug testing, when lawmakers gave final approval to a Republican-backed bill mandating such checks on ...
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49ers receiver Michael Crabtree undergoes Achilles surgery
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree speaks to the press during a media availability at the team hotel prior to Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on January 31, 2013. The 49ers will play the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013. UPI/Kevin ...
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Serial bank robber in federal custody
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) - A serial bank robber is in federal custody after being arrested by Round Rock police and the FBI Central Texas Violent Crime Task Force. Police said Jeffrey Wise, 49, entered the Branch Bank and Trust (BB&T) located at 110 North Interstate 35 in Round Rock on April 20 and April 30, demanding money. After approaching an employee and receiving an undisclosed amount of ...
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Bill allowing concealed handguns on college campuses draws blanks
AUSTIN — One of the biggest gun bills this session — allowing students with concealed handgun licenses to carry their firearms on college campuses and in their classes — appeared to die quietly ...
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Fort Hood suspect wants to represent himself
FORT WORTH, Texas -; The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting ...
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Siblings survive havoc of EF-5 twister
Nadia Hill / Managing Editor Keith Dennis heard the sirens wailing from two miles out, patiently listening and waiting for his sister's voice to reassure him she was alive. She was wrapped in blankets, padded by all of her pillows and huddled under a foam mattress topper. The wind screamed and windows shattered. He knew she was rain soaked, alone and in shock. Dennis picked apart his ...
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Scout leaders take up lifting gay ban
Former Boys Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell, left, rests her head on her son and current Boy Scout Cruz Burns, 8, before an news conference at the Equal Scouting Summit. (AP Photo/LM ...
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Medical center hit patients survive
MOORE, Okla. (KXAN) - The medical complex adjacent to a hard-hit neighborhood in Moore, Okla., was battered to rubble by Monday's tornado but the patients made it out alive. Dozens inside a clinic were trapped for a time when the walls collapsed in on them. "The thing that actually saved us was this big electrical box," said Dawn Miles, nurse. pointing to the box. She took KXAN on ...
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Emails show how Treasury delayed alerting Congress to Tea Party targeting
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on Wednesday displayed a string of emails showing his failed efforts to get an update from the Treasury Department inspector general's office about its investigation into the IRS practice of targeting conservative groups who sought tax-exempt status. Emails seeking the information date back to September 2012, six weeks ...
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Lagina Madre seagrass study
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-TimesTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi students Tracy Weatherall (left) and Jennifer Klidies take a sample of seagrass in the Laguna Madre on Wednesday. A group of 11 undergraduate and two graduate students are spending the week at the university’s Laguna Madre Field Station collecting data on seagrasses for use in Klidies’ master’s ...
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Mesquite Street Grill set for Fourth of July opening in Corpus Christi
MIKE BAIRD/CALLER-TIMES Mesquite Street Grill is planned for opening by July 4. The menu plans American comfort food, with daily lunch specials, food bars, steaks, and prime rib on Fridays. Seems that Mesquite Street is a swell place for a steak and prime rib ...
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UTA hires new police chief
Lemaux, a graduate of UTA, has more than three decades of law enforcement experience and expertise in training, operations and event safety management, according to a news release issued Wednesday by the ...
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Arlington man convicted in federal court of meth conspiracy
FORT WORTH — An Arlington man could be sentenced to life in federal prison and fined $5 million for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more, federal prosecutors said ...
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Completion of boardwalk project just one year away
AUSTIN(KXAN) - It's been talked about for years, but now the boardwalk on Lady Bird Lake is much closer to becoming a reality. A boat tour Wednesday showed the progress of the project that will connect the current end of the hike and bike trail to Lakeshore Park. City officials currently say it is dangerous to exercise on certain parts of the trail that gets close to Interstate 35. The new ...
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Dallas reportedly will shop pick save cap space
Could Dirk Nowitzki and Chris Paul be the next duo in the West? The Mavs will trade their 13th pick to make it happen. (Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty Images) The NBA Draft is still more than a month away and free agency doesn’t begin until July, but the Dallas Mavericks are wasting no time in the offseason to return to title contention next year with an aging leader in Dirk Nowitzki, who turns ...
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Grimm faces familiar opponent in Seattle
Safeco Field will be a welcomed sight for the Mariners -- and left-hander Joe Saunders -- when they return home Friday to host the division-leading Rangers for a three-game set. Saunders will take the hill in the series opener, as Seattle kicks off its brief five-game homestand fresh off a disappointing nine-game road trip. The Mariners enter Wednesday night's series finale against the ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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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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