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The Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Wasn't an Accident - Huffington Post

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 18:35

The Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Wasn't an Accident
Huffington Post
Texas doesn't have a state fire code and prohibits small counties from having local codes allowing fire marshals to inspect and prohibit the storage of highly flammable and explosive chemicals near homes and schools. According to the New York Times ...

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Mark Lynn Abbott - Daily Herald

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 16:21

Mark Lynn Abbott
Daily Herald
He spent most of his life as a steel worker/inspector with Geneva Steel. He also went to Carpentry School ... He attended several Marine Corps reunions in Texas and other locations. We have definitely lost a great ... Funeral services will be held ...

Did the IRS scandal originate in Washington? - Fox News

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 07:50

Did the IRS scandal originate in Washington?
Fox News
Now Daniel -- fell was joined by treasury department's inspector general Jay Russell George. And as always on this program we watch these proceedings very ... Now clearly there are still way more questions than there are answers when it comes to the ...

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Texas and region - LubbockOnline.com

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 05:10

Texas and region
LubbockOnline.com
Police are seeking two suspects after a 12-year-old boy was fatally shot while outside a North Texas home and a teenager asleep inside was wounded. The Tarrant County medical examiner's office says James Hardeman died early Monday at a Fort Worth ...

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Social Security's birthday blunder - KHOU

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 03:38

Social Security's birthday blunder
KHOU
"I've had it through grade school, high school, college, and the Army," Corvill explained in his North Austin home. Corvill says he ... According to this 2012 Inspector General's report, Social Security underpaid recipients by $1 billion during fiscal ...

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Resident questions city's dumpster code - MYfoxLUBBOCK.COM

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 01:27

Resident questions city's dumpster code
MYfoxLUBBOCK.COM
A few weeks ago, someone discarded a mattress and some furniture next to the dumpster behind his home. ... The code inspector told Gibbs, in rather terse terms, that according to city ordinance, if the rubbish is behind your house it's your responsibility.

Consumer protection bureau is under attack, but working - USA TODAY

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 00:22

Consumer protection bureau is under attack, but working
USA TODAY
Texas GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, in April barred Cordray from delivering the agency's semi-annual report to the panel. Hensarling contended Cordray wasn't legally appointed, so couldn't testify. Cordray ...

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Detroit's treasure trove could be vulnerable to sale - USA TODAY

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 00:18

Detroit's treasure trove could be vulnerable to sale
USA TODAY
Meanwhile, Chicago's inspector general reported that the city should have gotten twice as much for the parking-meter revenue stream as it did. Looking at waterfront. Valuing Detroit's vast real estate holdings will pose considerably ... The going rate ...

This Will Turn Out Very Well - Esquire (blog)

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 22:23

This Will Turn Out Very Well
Esquire (blog)
The couple was being questioned Friday at a home in New Boston, Texas. Investigators told Werner the wife knows specific details about the letters. The FBI says no one has been arrested or named a suspect, but federal agents and postal inspectors have ...

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Local Physicians Sentenced Again, Will Pay More Than $37 Million in Restitution - Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release)

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 20:56

Local Physicians Sentenced Again, Will Pay More Than $37 Million in Restitution
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release)
A restitution order of more than $40 million was imposed, and the defendants were ordered to forfeit all property funded with the proceeds of their fraudulent scheme, including their $700,000 home in Kemah, numerous parcels of real property, and a ...

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DPS Joins National Effort to Inspect Commercial Vehicles - KBTX

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 16:31

DPS Joins National Effort to Inspect Commercial Vehicles
KBTX
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers, inspectors and investigators will participate in intensified commercial vehicle inspections from June 4 – June 6 as part of Roadcheck 2013, a nationwide three-day enforcement effort to increase motor ...

S.A. Back in the Day: June 1928 - San Antonio Express

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 05:23

S.A. Back in the Day: June 1928
San Antonio Express
In order that women from the East who are attending the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs here might see Texas bluebonnets, she took special care of this plant and forced it to bloom twice. It seems to be unique. Published ...

Personality Profile: Marion Welborn - Yadkin Ripple

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 05:07

Personality Profile: Marion Welborn
Yadkin Ripple
“I would get home from school, change clothes and go straight to the chicken house,” Welborn said. ... With a plan following the military he traveled back to base and was transferred to Amarillo, Texas for fighter mechanic school. Once he received his ...

Bloomberg View:Texas explosion reveals hole in chemical regulation - Lincoln Journal Star

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 04:55

Bloomberg View:Texas explosion reveals hole in chemical regulation
Lincoln Journal Star
None of the regulatory agencies focuses on the specific hazard of fire plus an explosive compound, existing in the midst of schools, a nursing home and scores of residences. Given that at least 2,400 businesses in the United States store ammonium ...

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Dive right in for some escapist reading SUMMER BOOK PREVIEW - Youngstown Vindicator

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 04:11

Dive right in for some escapist reading SUMMER BOOK PREVIEW
Youngstown Vindicator
A middle-aged man returns home and sitting by a pond, remembers a strange encounter from his childhood. Gaiman's first book for adults since 2005. “Flora” by Gail Godwin ... In 19th-century Texas, Comanches raid a homestead, kidnapping a 13-year-old ...

Feds clear out of New Boston home in ricin investigation - KLTV

Sun, 06/02/2013 - 16:20

U.S. News & World Report

Feds clear out of New Boston home in ricin investigation
KLTV
The FBI and postal inspectors have ended their search for evidence inside an East Texas home in connection with the mailing of ricin-tainted letters to the president and the mayor of New York City. FBI agents had a portion of the street in New Boston's ...
Texas couple blames each other for ricin-laced lettersEverythingLubbock.com
Shreveport-postmarked ricin letters inquiry turns to east TexasShreveport Times

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Bipartisan Caucus Lays Groundwork For Food Movement - KUHF-FM

Sun, 06/02/2013 - 11:54

KUHF-FM

Bipartisan Caucus Lays Groundwork For Food Movement
KUHF-FM
The bipartisan "farm-to-table" caucus landed a couple of key victories in its first legislative session, laying the groundwork for its effort to help small agricultural businesses crop up across Texas. “Food and ... House Bill 970, the "cottage food ...

Detroit Zoo giraffe? Belle Isle? Detroit's treasure trove could be vulnerable ... - Detroit Free Press

Sun, 06/02/2013 - 11:05

Detroit Zoo giraffe? Belle Isle? Detroit's treasure trove could be vulnerable ...
Detroit Free Press
The going rate at auction for a zebra is roughly $2,500 to $3,500, and a breeding female giraffe can sell for $80,000, said Alex Tradd, general manager of the Y.O. Ranch in Mountain Home, Texas. The ranch offers wildlife tours, adventure camps, exotic ...

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The almanac - UPI.com

Sun, 06/02/2013 - 07:31

The almanac
UPI.com
Also in 2003, U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said in a report that inspectors before the war had been unable to prove or disprove the presence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. In 2004, Ken Jennings won his first game on "Jeopardy!" to start a ...

The Watchdog: Texas charities fight rule change that could cost them millions ... - Dallas Morning News

Sun, 06/02/2013 - 06:37

The Watchdog: Texas charities fight rule change that could cost them millions ...
Dallas Morning News
Meals on Wheels Inc. of Tarrant County says that the $39,000 in donations it collected last year from the federal program paid for 7,177 home-delivered meals it may no longer be able to afford. Second Chance SPCA animal rescue in Plano gets half its ...