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Unemployed Texas teacher returns lost bag containing $20G
An unemployed teacher was driving home after dropping her cat off at a veterinarian when she noticed a bag on the street. She stopped but doubted it contained anything, but soon discovered the bag was holding about $20,000. Candace Scott said the bag had a Chase bank label, so she promptly delivered it to a nearby branch. She pound on the glass around 8 a.m. Tuesday to get the branch manager to ...
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Fitch Confirms S-T F1 Rating on Texas Veterans Bonds Taxable Refunding Series 2010B
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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Car driver cited in deadly biker wreck
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The driver of a car involved in a deadly motorcycle wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. The wreck happened early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street, killing a 59-year-old man. Police said a black 2012 Honda Accord was heading south in the 3900 block of Guadalupe Street just after 6 a.m. when the biker on a 2009 Honda Shadow motorcycle, ...
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Texas Windstorm Insurance Group Expects Surplus
The nonprofit, state-supervised property insurance agency for coastal Texas counties is expected to shore up its finances by the end of the year, the group told a state House panel on June 17. Pete Gise, who handles the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s finances, said that after being in debt since 2012, the association projects it will see its first surplus by the end of the year. ...
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Corpus Christi police Man arrested after alcohol marijuana and gun found in car.
Corpus Christi police arrested a 19-year-old man who had marijuana, alcohol and a gun in his car Tuesday night, police said in a news release. Police said they pulled over a black 2007 Chevrolet Impala in the 1000 block of National Drive before 11 p.m. for a traffic violation. When the officer was speaking with the man, the officer saw a scale beneath the driver's feet. After a search ...
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Minor improvements in drought across Texas
60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought conditions as of Wednesday, officials said. 60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought ...
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Decherd to retire from Dallas-based AH Belo
DALLAS -; The CEO of Dallas-based A.H. Belo (BEE'-loh) Corporation plans to retire in September and will become vice chairman of the board of ...
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Texas Senate passes tougher abortion clinic rules
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com AUSTIN With a week left in the special session, partisan discord erupted in the Texas Legislature after Senate passage of legislation toughening regulations on abortion ...
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The Supreme Courts Decision In Salinas v. Texas Implications For White Collar Investigations
U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At the outset of a white collar investigation, counsel will invariably advise the client that if a government investigator unexpectedly appears seeking to "just ask a few questions," the client should politely decline and direct the investigator to counsel. Although the Supreme Court's decision this past Monday, June 17, ...
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Will Summer Blackouts Doom The Texas Boom
NRG's Green Mountain Energy wind farm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Texas has been an economic powerhouse in recent years. Gross domestic product in the Lone Star State, which hit $1.2 trillion before the recession, is ...
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Dallas New Vietnamese Spot Mot Hai Ba Will Challenge Your Views
It was wildly unexpected when Colleen O'Hare and Jeana Johnson announced their latest restaurant. They'd already successfully tackled tacos more suited for gringos than for those raised on the streets of Mexico City. Authenticity be damned - those tacos were delicious, and Good 2 Go quickly became an East Dallas fixture. But when two women from Texas decided to undertake the complex ...
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If Only the Monsters University Writers Had Taken a Quick Sendak Seminar
Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar's junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise rich enough for Seuss or Borges. Is it too much to ask, then, that a ...
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The War at Home
Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and wondering how the hell you're going to fit them together. In Marc Forster's World War Z, the world as we know it is destroyed by a virus that turns people into zombies. Brad Pitt plays a New York City family man - a UN peacekeeper turned ...
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Who Needs Superman In Traces Humans Fly without Special Effects.
Traces lets you marvel at the wonders of the human body while making you feel bad about your own. Seven gorgeous young performers in a 90-minute whirl of acrobatics, dance and borderline insanity fly off the floor and hang in mid-air longer than logic and the laws of gravity say they should. They leap, tumble, scuttle up poles and heave themselves at each other like flying squirrels. Balancing ...
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Trouble in River City in Lyric Stage’s Vanilla Music Man
Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving's Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came in more flavors than vanilla. The quaint ode to small-town life circa 1912 falls flat if its angelic Iowans aren't threatened with perdition by a devilish Harold Hill. Flim-flammer Hill hops off a train in River City to sell instruments ...
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At the Van Cliburn Competition Perfection Is Subjective
It's important to take a moment of stillness before you do something amazing. You have to stop and collect yourself because people are watching you, and you need to put that reality out of your mind. You have to center yourself and remember that the only thing that matters is you and the ball in your hand or you and the keys in front of you. Huangci was the first of 30 talented young ...
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Loves No Accident In Gruesome Playground Injuries
The lifelong connection between the two characters in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries begins when they are 8, meeting in the school infirmary. Kayleen has tummy troubles. Dougie has just ridden his bike off the roof, splitting his forehead. Thirty years and many accidents and illnesses later, the pair finally will realize that their fate is to be together - as painful as that ...
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Whos Left Behind When a Soldier Commits Suicide
Becca Morrison is sitting in her new house, a two-story place in a quiet, half-finished Grand Prairie subdivision. The house is large and airy and immaculate, not a speck of dust or a rug corner out of place. The table is set for six, though she's not expecting company. The countertop is lined with her paintings, a hobby she took up after Ian's death. She's 26 now, with dark ...
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Tucson names Texas educator as new superintendent
The district's governing board voted 4-1 Tuesday to appoint Heliodoro Torres Sanchez to lead Tucson schools after John Pedicone announced his resignation in ...
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Appeal seeks halt to Texas womans execution
Kimberly McCarthy on June 26 would be the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010 and the 500th prisoner executed in Texas since the death penalty resumed in ...
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Mailman accused of taking money from gift cards
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Federal authorities say a South Texas mailman has been arrested for opening customer mail and stealing money contained in gift ...
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Woman drives car into laundromat Wednesday morning
CORPUS CHRISTI -- A woman drove her Dodge Dakota truck into the front wall of a building Wednesday morning after she stepped on the gas instead the ...
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Corpus Christi City Council to decide street fee next week wants one in place Jan. 1
Where in the article did it say convenience stores would have their fee eliminated? And why would we want to even consider a charge for plastic bags? If you and Nelda are so worried about them just ban them ...
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Crisp Immigration reform imperiled by politics
This Aug. 5, 2008, file photo shows the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Phoenix. The United States Senate is in the early stages of debate on an immigration reform bill; passage is far from guaranteed. As many as 300 amendments to the bill are on offer, and some of them might be ...
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Coburn Treasury keeps stalling congressional request for full listing of conference costs
The Treasury Department has yet to provide Congress with a full list of employee conferences and their costs, despite repeated requests from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Treasury officials say they're being delayed because of multiple requests from different congressional committees, admitting "confusion," but Coburn isn't buying it. "This 'dog ate my homework' ...
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El Paso still counting cost of storm
El Paso may be counting the cost of last year’s intense hail storm for the next two years according to expert opinions and data released by local insurance companies to El Paso news media.
On September 16th last year a hail storm hit the city causing extensive damage to homes, businesses and cars across the city but with the vast majority of damage centered around East Side. Around 20,000 cars and 10,000 homes were damaged according to the Insurance Council of Texas, which amounted to $150 million. Read more
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