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Health Officials Decry Texas Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions
Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the opening session of the Texas Legislature in Austin earlier this year. The state of Texas is turning down billions of federal dollars that would have paid for health care coverage for 1.5 million poor Texans. By refusing to participate in Medicaid expansion, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, the state will leave on the table an estimated $100 ...
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Texas Medical Association launches physician services group
Dr. Russell Kridel, president of Harris County Medical Society, said the new physician group will provide doctors with tools to provide better and more efficient care. The Texas Medical Association has teamed up with some of the states largest medical societies to create the Physician Services Organization for Patient Care. The organization aims to deliver tools to help physicians perform better ...
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Velocis buys Uptown Dallas office tower
Dallas-based real estate investment firm Velocis has purchased 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Dallas-based real estate investment fund Velocis, along with its investors, has bought 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas for an undisclosed sum. The 145,610-square-foot Class A office building is in a highly-desired submarket, where tenants can walk to a number of amenities, said Mike Lewis, ...
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Gun measure triggers Republican fight in House
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A move to give lawmakers the right to carry handguns anywhere they wish sparked an angry debate in the Texas House of Representatives between ...
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Ex-police officer gets prison for abusing suspect
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A former Laredo police officer has been sentenced to a year in prison after admitting to abusing a suspect in his patrol car last ...
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Texas man found guilty of murder in 1984 case
A Collin County jury on Thursday found 50-year-old Alonzo Grayson Jr. guilty in the killing of 18-year-old Bobby Ray Taylor in January 1984. The jury then began deliberating the punishment for Grayson, who faces up to 99 years in prison. He's not eligible for parole because of prior convictions that include robbery and ...
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Alberto Lombardi focused on new sushi bar Taverna move
Alberto Lombardi, owner of Lombardi Family Concepts, said hes slowing down thoughts of expansion and is focusing on his current five Dallas locations. Lombardi recently added a sushi bar to 31, the lounge that sits above Bistro 31. The addition has brought in additional customers and made the lounge more popular, Lombardi said. Needless to say, he plans on keeping it there. Lombardi also is ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis
When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...
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Texas Joins Flood of States Suing BP over 2010 Gulf Spill
Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and others ';engaged in willful and wanton misconduct'; for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ...
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R.L. Worths Heritage Oaks lands a new neighbor
Zachry Construction Corp. is moving the company's headquarters to Heritage Oaks at Inwood. Only months after NuStar Energy LP moved out of its former headquarters, Zachry Construction Co. has decided to move in. The latter has closed on the purchase of Building I at the Heritage Oaks at Inwood office park on the far North Side. Spanning 84,000 square feet, the structure will serve as the new ...
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Lawmakers require audit of Perry development fund
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill requiring an audit of Gov. Rick Perry's deal-closing Texas Enterprise Fund.Lawmakers have been demanding closer scrutiny of the decade-old program that has given more than $485 million to private companies looking to expand or relocate in the state. Critics have questioned the fund, and Perry's similar ...
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Halliburton adds 100 CNG trucks to its fleet as part of pilot program
Halliburton has invested in 100 hybrid vehicles that can run on compressed natural gas or conventional fuel. Oilfield services giant Halliburton, one of the key players in South Texas Eagle Ford Shale, has deployed nearly 100 light-duty compressed natural gas trucks across its U.S. field locations. Houston-based Halliburton purchased the vehicles as part of a pilot program that be rolled out ...
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Legacy graduate elected Dallas Baptist SGA president
Reagan Rothenberger, a Beaumont native and 20-year-old junior at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), was elected president of the Student Government Association (SGA) on April 17 for the 2013-14 school year, and will take office in August. Rothenberger is the first junior to be elected president of SGA in ten years at DBU, he ...
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Police searching for possible assault victim
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police are looking for a woman who they believe may have been assaulted by a man early Tuesday in North Austin. Witnesses reported seeing a man dragging a woman in a chokehold by her hair towards a car about 3:12 a.m., on an Interstate 35 service road near a residential community on River Oaks Drive. As the man pulled her towards a car, a witness drove by and the man told the ...
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Teen found beaten to death in Fort Worth park was raising family helping mother
Services Funeral services for Nicholas Anderson will be 10 a.m. Saturday at First Missionary Baptist Church, 4928 Miller Ave., Fort Worth. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Memorial ...
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Construction worker seriously injured in fall from roof at Kimbell Art Museum
dboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH _ A construction worker was seriously injured this afternoon after falling about 30 feet from the roof of the Kimbell Art Museum, fire officials ...
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Some fixes in the works for congested Y
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Relief might be on the way to one of Austin's most congested areas -- the so-called Y in Oak Hill. The Texas Department of Transportation is installing turn lanes on U.S. 290 near Ranch Road 1826. The project could take two years to complete Another project will begin this summer. Crews will put in what are called "continuous flow" intersections between the Y and Joe ...
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Texas GOP Introduced At Least 24 Anti-Abortion Bills This Year But Not A Single One Advanced
Over the past several years, Texas lawmakers have kept themselves busy by launching multiple attacks on women’s health. In 2011 and 2012, state ...
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Exclusive Energy firm expands HQ relocates within Dallas
Longtime Dallas energy firm Solomon Associates is moving its headquarters to One Lincoln Centre in June. Dallas-based Solomon Associates, a performance improvement company for the global energy industry, is expanding and relocating its headquarters within the city limits. The longtime Dallas-based company has signed a lease for 28,860 square feet of office space at One Lincoln Centre on the ...
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Census Texas has 8 of 15 fastest-growing cities in U.S.
Census Bureau says. Only Texas had more than one city among the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country with populations of more than 50,000 in 2012, the Bureau said in a report released Thursday. The Texas city of San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio, had the highest rate of growth. Other Texas cities on the list were sprinkled around the state. New York topped the list of ...
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Head of Colorado parole division put on leave of absence
The director of Colorado's parole division, the target of criticism for the past two months, has been put on a paid leave of absence, a prison official says. Steve Hager, warden of the youth offender system, will replace parole director Tim Hand, The Denver Post reported Thursday. Announcing the personnel change in an e-mail, interim corrections chief Roger Werholtz said Hand "will ...
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Peak Rock Capital acquires Miami paper maker
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital has acquired Atlas Paper Mills LLC, a Miami-based tissue paper maker. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a news release. A spokesman for Austin-based Peak Rock declined to reveal the name of the affiliate company. Atlas Paper Mills, founded in 1981, manufactures tissue products using 100 percent recycled fiber. It employs 2,000 workers, ...
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Former leaders of Las Brisas Power Plant development face lawsuit
Las Brisas also is working to develop free training programs, managing partner John Upchurch said at a news conference in 2009. Civil suit addresses "brazen, calculated, persasive and deceptive scheme of embezzlement" in the ill-fated Las Brisas Power Plant development project. See the ...
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SolarImpulse could inspire a generation pilots say
Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andr Borschberg stand with a flag marking the historic flight at DFW airport Thursday morning. Breaking the world record for distance in a solar-powered aircraft wasnt easy for Andre Borschberg. The more than 18-hour flight went 860 miles from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Weather is a constant challenge for the SolarImpulse because of its ...
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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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