AUSTIN (AP) — High-tech data centers in Texas will receive a tax break from state lawmakers in a proposed law on its way to the governor. The bill approved on Friday exempts from sales tax the equipment needed to operate a data center, a computer facility that makes the Internet possible. The facility must be [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday the problems involve seven patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn. Tennessee [...]
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. His name wasn’t immediately released. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says two firefighters were transported [...]
DALLAS (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a Dallas man found shot to death on the front porch of his home. The Dallas Morning News reports 36-year-old Jeffrey Weaver was found shot multiple times just before 2 a.m. Saturday. Police say he was on the threshold of his front porch. Weaver was taken [...]
CLEBURNE (AP) — School is expected to resume Monday in a North Texas community where a tornado damaged homes and cut power. Campuses in the Cleburne school district, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth, were closed Thursday and Friday after a tornado Wednesday night caused electrical outages and dangerous road conditions. Dallas-based Oncor said [...]
GRANBURY (AP) — Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said Friday. In Granbury, the area hardest hit by Wednesday night’s exceptionally strong tornado, workers are trying to restore water service, raise [...]
Texas Secretary of State John Steen reminders voters that early voting by personal appearance begins today, April 29, and runs through May 7 for the May 11 Uniform Election. “Early voting is a convenient way to cast a ballot without having to wait for Election Day,” said Secretary Steen. “It provides greater access and opportunities [...]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An ex-trainer at a South Texas military installation has been sentenced to five months in jail and booted from the service for using bleach to abuse recruits.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died. He was 81. Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to his publicist Kirt Webster. He had [...]
HURST, (AP) — A 27-year-old North Texas man has been arrested in the death of his 3-year-old daughter. Hurst police say Robert Marquis Lamar Williams was arrested Tuesday on a murder-serious bodily injury charge in the death of Anastasia Williams, found dead March 22 in her bedroom. Robert Williams remained jailed Wednesday on $100,000 bond. [...]
CYPRESS (AP) — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a suburban Houston community college randomly selected his victims and told investigators he had been fantasizing about conducting such an attack since he was 8 years old, authorities said Wednesday.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Two Department of Homeland Security employees have been indicted in a scheme to fake investigative documents to cover up a lack of progress on cases in their South Texas office.
The Catholic world saw the election of a new leader today with the ascension of Pope Francis, formerly the Cardinal from Argentina Jorge Bergoglio.
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — A tugboat crewmember reported missing from the vessel at the Port of Corpus Christi has been found dead in the water.
HOUSTON (AP) — Two people are dead and a third has been wounded in a shooting at a Houston apartment complex.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers expressed outrage because they must submit to computerized searches for warrants before entering the governor’s mansion.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A jury has convicted an Austin personal injury attorney of racketeering charges as part of a federal investigation into judicial bribery in South Texas.
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say one suspect has been captured and three others are sought in last summer’s slaying of a guard during an attempt to rob a game room
KILGORE (AP) — Leader of a Dallas-area junior college have defended their basketball team after police used pepper spray on the squad following a loss.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A South Texas man has been charged with using a sword to fatally stab a friend in the chest as the two men apparently argued about a woman. San Antonio police say the attack happened early Tuesday after several people had been drinking alcohol at an apartment complex. Officer Matt Porter [...]
