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Texas tops list of lost stolen guns
DALLAS (AP) - Federal authorities say Texas has far and away the largest number of firearms in the U.S. reported as lost or stolen. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a report this week showing there were 18,874 firearms lost or stolen in Texas in 2012. The figure represents 10 percent of the total national number. The next closest state was Georgia with 12,906. ...
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City announces 1st Love Your Rescue Pet day
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin City Council will recognize the more than 100 animal rescue partners working to maintain the city's no-kill status Saturday. The council will announce on Thursday the city's first "Love Your Rescue Pet" day as June 22. Many local rescue partners are expected to be in attendance for the announcement. Austin has been at a no-kill status since 2011, saving ...
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Fitch Rates Galena Park ISD Texas ULT Rfdg Bonds AAA PSFAA+ Underlying Outlook Stable
Money Market Funds Explore Callable Commercial Paper in Value Search Money market funds (MMFs) are slowly increasing exposure to a relatively new short-term instrument - callable commercial paper (CP), according to Fitch Ratings. MMFs are exploring callable CP as a way to add additional yield and diversification to portfolios, as well as in response to banks' reduced appetite for providing ...
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New safety rules too lax Corpus Christi harbor pilots say
TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES ARCHIVE An oil tanker pulls into the Port of Corpus Christi. The port said Tuesday it would adopt stricter navigation guidelines for large vessels, but the pilots who guide the vessels said the rules don’t go far enough. Industries said they support the new restrictions, but pilots who guide vessels say they leave the port susceptible to ...
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Slavery in America must never be forgotten
Just as many of you will never forget the oppression — indeed, extermination — of your foreparents in foreign lands, discrimination in their new country and their constant battle for inclusion and acceptance in a place they came to call ...
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Uncertain future for border prosecution program
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents keep watch at a checkpoint station, on Feb. 22, 2013, in Falfurrias, Texas. Some drug smugglers caught at the highway checkpoint about an hour north of the Texas-Mexico border are losing their drugs, but not facing prosecution because cooperation between local and federal prosecutors has broken down. (AP Photo/Eric ...
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Review “Bling Ring” stylish lacks substance
Writer-director Sophia Coppola, best known for 2003's art-house darling "Lost In Translation," has achieved great heights in terms of her career as a filmmaker dually because of the credibility of her last name and the amount of success she has garnered in the world of independent cinema. Coppola's latest effort "The Bling Ring," takes an all-too-familiar look at ...
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Review “Yeezus” is the reason for the season
4.5 out of 5 stars With no singles, no radio airplay and no album cover, Kanye West's sixth solo album, "Yeezus," is still estimated to sell half a million albums in its first week, adding another consecutive No. 1 album to Kanye's catalog of all-platinum albums. But how did we get here? West, now 36, was just an emerging producer-turned-rapper when he released his debut, ...
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Texas House panel approves new youth punishment
By URIEL J. GARCIAAssociated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas House panel has endorsed a bill to create a mandatory life sentence with the possibility of parole after 40 years for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder. The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee sent the bill Wednesday to the full House, which is expected to vote before the end of the 30-day special session next week. The bill ...
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Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill
Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...
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Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf ...
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Texas Border Checkpoint Mostly Ensnares Americans For Drug Offenses
Fifteen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, a sleepy Texas county with more square miles than people is home to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. But while the checkpoint is intended to snag immigration ...
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94th Reno Rodeo opens Thursday Wests richest
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- An up-and-coming young buck who's trading his basketball shoes for cowboy boots and the defending world champion bull rider are among the headliners this week at the 94th Reno ...
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Cuts to food stamps threaten farm bill
White House opposition to the House's massive farm bill could leave some Republicans and conservative groups in the awkward position of agreeing with President ...
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Corpus Christi police seek woman accused of stealing computers from store in Flour Bluff.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Corpus Christi Police property crimes detectives are looking for a woman who is accused of stealing from a store in Flour Bluff on June 4, 5 and 6, police said in a news ...
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Barbara Canales picked to fill vacated Port Commission seat
CALLER-TIMES FILE The court selected Canales, an attorney with a petroleum engineering degree and the lone female applicant to the post, from among seven ...
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Crime Stoppers 2013 23
Published June 9, 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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Dewhurst tweet says bill attempts to close clinics
AUSTIN (AP) Texas Senate Republicans insist proposed new restrictions on abortion facilities are designed to protect women's health. But a tweet Wednesday from the account of Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said what Democrats have claimed all along: the plan is an attempt to shut down clinics and all but ban abortion in Texas. Senate Republicans Tuesday night passed sweeping new ...
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NJ Gov. Christie is still a Dallas Cowboys fan
SAYREVILLE, N.J. -; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised some schoolchildren when he told them his favorite football team is the Dallas ...
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Texas Tackles Key Regulatory Barriers To Cogeneration
Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law today two bills promoting deployment of cogeneration in Texas. Cogeneration, or combined heat and power, is refers to a suite of technologies designed to produce electricity and useful thermal energy in a single process. "[T]hese policy changes will be effective to help Texas meet resource adequacy challenges and provide secure energy to critical ...
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Texas Megachurch Pastor Asks Congregation to Sow $52 Favor Seeds to Upgrade Helicopter Blades
A Texas megachurch pastor, whose 'Aviation Department' advised him that upgrading the blades on his helicopter would save his church $50,000, recenlty caused an uproar for asking his congregation to help finance the upgrade with $52 'favor ...
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T Magazine On View | An All-American Roadside Attraction in West Texas
Over the next few months, motorists speeding through the West Texas desert on Highway 90, just outside the arts town of Marfa, will encounter an unexpected roadside attraction: a white neon Playboy logo hovering above a matte-black 1972 Dodge Charger perched at an 18-degree angle atop a concrete plinth. Playboy Marfa, as it’s being called, is the first in a series of art projects ...
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BSA appeals Texas order to turn over abuse files
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America is asking the Texas Supreme Court to review an order requiring it to turn over years of so-called perversion files in a child abuse ...
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Drop In Dallas Latino Representation Highlights Voter Turnout Problem
The Latino community saw its representation decline in the city of Dallas this weekend for the second time this year, where a local race left the city council with just two Hispanic members. That wasn't supposed to ...
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Ala teen charged in case of baby found in Texas
Authorities have located a missing 10-month-old Alabama boy in Texas with the 14-year-old girl who allegedly took him from a home in ...
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Dallas city core development hindered by roadways
The Dallas freeway loop is a series of highways that wrap round the center of Downtown Dallas, built at a time when the inter-connectivity of neighborhoods was not yet appreciated, but with changing attitudes, a series of projects are underway to enhance the appeal of downtown.
Downtown Dallas, it’s the heart of the city, which is the commercial hub of Dallas County and the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the entire United States. Yet, this area’s full potential has been hindered by a zoning decision in the 1980s that saw major freeways routed through the city and created a complex ring of highways (the Dallas freeway loop) around the core downtown area. Read more
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