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More reverse mortgage lending options on tap for retirees
Senate Joint Resolution 18 would amend the Texas Constitution to authorize the Reverse Mortgage for Purchase program and would enhance consumer disclosure requirements for all reverse mortgage loans in Texas. The Texas House has approved legislation that would expand the scope of reverse mortgage lending in the state to the benefit of retirees, its supporters claim. Senate Joint Resolution 18 ...
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Allen Gump How I was named SIOR leader
Allen Gump of Colliers International was named to a four-year term helping to lead the national SIOR industry group. Longtime real estate broker Allen Gump of Colliers International was elected to the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors executive committee, a four-year leadership term in the national industry group. The four-year term includes Gump serving vice president in 2014, ...
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Diebold to relocate Coppell operations to Ohio cut 52 jobs
Diebold will terminate 52 jobs at its Coppell office as it relocates operations to its Ohio offices, pictured above. Diebold, Inc. will terminate 52 jobs this year at its Coppell office as the company relocates operations to Ohio, according the company said in a notice filed under the Workers Adjustment Retraining and Notificaiton Act. The maker of bank ATMs and bank security systems issued the ...
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McGraw-Hill moving operation from DeSoto to Ohio
An exterior of the warehouse at the I-20 Corporate Center. New York City-based McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc., an affiliate of McGraw-Hill Financial Inc. (NYSE: MHFI), plans to move its large southwest regional distribution hub from North Texas to Ohio as part of a consolidation, leaving a big void in a hot distribution market. The New York-based investment trust that owns the property has hired ...
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Boeing 787 flight from Houston marks planes return Video
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg "Street Smart" anchor Adam Johnson previews the return to the skies of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner as he prepares to take a ride on one of the refurbished airliners to speak with the CEOs of Boeing and United Airlines. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." A United Airlines 787 Dreamliner flew Monday from Houston to ...
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Lawmakers restore $4 billion in education cuts
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he'll call a special session of the Legislature if they don't pass several key bills. Texas House and Senate budget leaders have reached an agreement to restore about $4 billion of the $5.4 billion in cuts made to public education last session. Though the amount falls short of a complete restoration, Democrats proclaimed the compromise a hard-fought victory ...
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Williams-Sonoma expands call center in The Colony
Williams-Sonoma is expanding its call center space in The Colony. San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma Inc., a specialty home furnishings and gourmet cookware retailer, has expanded its call center in North Texas. The retailer has signed a lease for 6,653 square feet of office space at The Cascades in The Colony, expanding its space to 15,523 square feet. In 2011, an affiliate of Williams-Sonoma ...
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8 reasons doctors call summer trauma season and how kids can keep safe
. Sadly, the story is all too typical for what emergency-room professionals refer to as ';trauma season,'; because this kicks off the months when they see a spike in drownings and heat-related accidents. Back in 2010, I talked to emergency room doctors about the biggest misconceptions ...
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Sexual assault trial begins for SMU student accused of rape in a campus dorm
sexual assault case of Donald Cuba , a former Southern Methodist University junior who is accused of raping a freshman in a campus dorm in the early morning hours of Feb. 10, ...
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Testimony Man who drowned kids wanted cops to tell the mother it was her fault
A family photo was displayed at the boys' funeral in August 2011. After Naim Rasool Muhammad confessed to police that he drowned his sons in a smelly, shallow creek, he asked for a favor. Muhammad wanted homicide detective Michael Yeric to tell the boys’ mother something, ';He asked me to tell Kametra [Sampson] she was the reason he did it,'; Yeric told jurors. Yeric ...
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Woman set on fire in Texas convenience store
Three people were injured early Monday in an incident in which a woman was set on fire in a Fort Worth, Texas, convenience store, police said. The female assailant allegedly entered a Buy & Save Food Store and argued with the unidentified victim before dousing her with a flammable liquid and lighting her afire. Another woman, sitting with the victim, and a store clerk were also burned while ...
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Panther purchases Fort Worth apartment portfolio
Investors continue to purchase apartment properties, as the market remains strong for the real estate. The Coventry at Cityview apartments in Fort Worth, seen above, were sold to an investment group in the past month. Fort Worth-based Panther FW Investments LLC, formerly Panther Transaction Group, has bought a two-property, apartment portfolio totaling 528 apartment homes in Fort Worth. Terms of ...
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Veteran firefighter killed in huge Dallas condo fire
A huge six-alarm fire killed a veteran fire fighter and destroyed at least 24 different housing units in the early morning hours of May 20th in a Dallas, Texas complex of condos. (Wikimedia/Wikimedia ...
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Parker County grass fire smokes out marijuana grow house
(Parker County Sheriff's Office) Parker County rescue workers say they went to William Joseph McCue’s house Sunday evening to warn him about a nearby grass and structure fire that was threatening to burn down his house. Instead, they wound up taking him to jail for running a marijuana grow operation. According to Parker County Deputy Danie Huffman, the accidental pot bust happened ...
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Dallas Firefighter Killed in the Line of Duty www.privateofficer.com
One firefighter was killed and two others were injured in a six-alarm blaze that has devoured at least 24 units at the Hearthwood North Condominiums at 12363 Abrams Road, near LBJ Freeway overnight. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the firefighter, who has been identified as 28-year department veteran Stanley Wilson, radioed in shortly before 5:30 a.m. that he was trapped and lost, ...
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Ryan Kimura 40 Under 40 honor aided in job search
40 Under 40 honors businesspeople under the age of 40 for their success. Being honored by the Dallas Business Journal in 2011 helped cement in my mind that moving to Dallas was the right decision for me and my career. I moved to Dallas in late 2008 with no contacts or connections in DFW and within two years, I was being honored on the DBJ's list of 40 under 40. I think what made the most ...
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Dell committee wants more info from buyout group
Dell Inc. wants more information again from the investor group challenging CEO Michael Dells shareholder buyout. The companys special committee formed to consider buyout offers has asked billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. for more details about their takeover plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer maker in the ...
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Volatile atmosphere brings chance of severe weather to North Texas
Ted Ryan, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, wants to be very clear about this: The chance of severe weather in Dallas-Fort Worth today is small — 20 to 30 percent at best. But, he says, ';A chance for something bad is there.'; Which is why, he says, ';We’d rather err on the side of caution and tell people they need to be on the lookout ...
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Dwight Howard Report Links Big Man to Houston Rockets or Dallas Mavericks
Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard (12) is defended by Utah Jazz center Al Jefferson during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7, ...
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Seattles Best Coffee opens 10 DFW area drive-throughs
Seattle's Best Coffee is opening 10 new drive-throughs today, including one off of Skillman St. Seattle's Best Coffee LLC is launching its new drive-through concept with Monday's opening of 10 locations across the Dallas area. The locations are the first Seattles Best Coffee shops in North Texas. The company, which is a featured brand of Starbucks Corp., has 65 caf-style locations ...
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Firefighter dies in Dallas condo complex blaze
DALLAS (AP) - Dallas firefighters have recovered the body of a comrade who reported by radio being trapped while battling a condominium complex blaze. A U.S. flag covered the firefighter's body when it was removed from the rubble Monday morning. The firefighter's name wasn't immediately released. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says two firefighters were transported to ...
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Drunken driving suspect hits teen walking on dark bridge in Grand Prairie
Police say a drunken driver struck and killed a 19-year-old man who was walking on a dark road in Grand Prairie late Sunday. The victim, who has not been identified, was wearing headphones and dark clothes shortly before 9:30 p.m. while walking on a bridge on Corn Valley Road just north of Kirby Creek Drive. A Dodge pickup hit the teen from behind, knocking him over a guardrail and into a creek ...
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Man convicted of 1985 rape listed as most-wanted sex offender arrested in Dallas
the Texas Department of Public Safety added Willie L. Sullivan to its list of the 10 most-wanted sex offenders . This morning, the DPS sends word that Sullivan is back in custody. Sullivan, a 57-year-old with a lengthy criminal record that dates back 32 years, was wanted for failing to register as a sex offender and for violating his parole, after he was charged with burglarizing a ...
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Chesapeakes new CEO once oversaw Eagle Ford shale for Anadarko Video
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on today's "Top Headlines." She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Robert Douglas Doug Lawler, senior vice president of international and deepwater operations for Anadarko Petroleum Corp., will become CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. on June 17. From shale plays to offshore drilling, Robert Douglas Lawler ...
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Samsung offers $800K to developers for Galaxy-specific apps
Samsung wants Galaxy-specific apps to help set the phone apart from other Android-based devices. Samsung Electronics is offering third-party developers $800,000 in prize money for Galaxy-specific apps as the Korean smartphone maker ramps up its efforts to compete with Apple's iPhone. Apple Insider reported that the competition will have 10 winners and that the prize money will be distributed ...
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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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