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Prison investigator says senator threat a scam - KPRC Houston
KPRC Houston
Prison investigator says senator threat a scam
KPRC Houston
John Whitmire, who heads the legislative committee in charge of Texas prisons, was in no danger from the inmate, said Bruce Toney, inspector general of the Department of Criminal Justice. The inmate was a confidential informant who tried to recruit ...
Death threat was scam, official saysFort Worth Star Telegram
Texas State Senator Says He's The Target Of Prison Death ThreatKWTX
Texas senator says he was target of death threatMidland Reporter-Telegram
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Business Highlights - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Business Highlights
Fort Worth Star Telegram
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gains in housing and manufacturing boosted the U.S. economy over the winter, according to reports released Tuesday, and analysts say they point to the resilience of consumers and businesses as government spending cuts kick in. U.S ...
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FHFA Inspector General: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Not Enforcing Consumer ... - Huffington Post
FHFA Inspector General: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Not Enforcing Consumer ...
Huffington Post
Most recently, the inspector general found that banks and other mortgage companies that manage more than 10 million home loans for Freddie Mac had "largely failed" to alert the company to the most serious category of homeowner complaints, despite a ...
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Texas senator says he was target of death threat - Midland Reporter-Telegram
Texas senator says he was target of death threat
Midland Reporter-Telegram
"You read about that innocent public official being shot in his home, at his door, you've got to take the threat serious," Whitmire said. Texas Department of Criminal Justice inspector general Bruce Toney says authorities are investigating the ...
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Monday Roundup: 'Monsanto Protection Act' - Daily Yonder
Monday Roundup: 'Monsanto Protection Act'
Daily Yonder
Bill Bishop/Daily Yonder It was the fourth Sunday in March yesterday, so that made it the South Texas Sausage and Polka Fest in Halletsville, Texas. There were four polka bands, and halfway through the afternoon, they all mounted the stage (along with ...
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The Gulf War's Homegrown Plague? - Daily Beast
Daily Beast
The Gulf War's Homegrown Plague?
Daily Beast
Alcaron's suit is scheduled for a June trial in Angleton, Texas, a small town outside of Houston near where Rhodia has an American office. To date, no American chemical maker has been found liable in a civil proceeding for harming an American soldier ...
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What lies beneath: When sinkholes turn deadly - Adelaide Now
What lies beneath: When sinkholes turn deadly
Adelaide Now
A county building inspector said the home was safe to live in, but the homeowner was seeking an engineer's opinion. Arthur said he looked at 50 years ... This massive sinkhole opeebnd up near Daisetta, Texas on May 7, 2008. A zigzagging hole believed ...
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Deadly Dives - The push for commercial diving regulations - MyNorthwest.com
MyNorthwest.com
Deadly Dives - The push for commercial diving regulations
MyNorthwest.com
It was March 4, 1996 when Brian Pilkington got the call to help inspect an oil rig off the coast of Texas. The University Prep and Diver's Institute of Technology grad had moved from Bellevue to Houston, the center of the commercial diving industry in ...
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Livestock, Ranch Equipment Thefts Up In Texas, But So Are Recoveries - KWTX
Livestock, Ranch Equipment Thefts Up In Texas, But So Are Recoveries
KWTX
The 30 special rangers, who are commissioned law enforcement officers but are privately funded, are assisted by inspectors who collect brands and other identifying marks on upward of 5 million cattle sold at livestock markets each year.
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Green energy helps grow jobs - The Desert Sun
Green energy helps grow jobs
The Desert Sun
One megawatt powers 750-1,000 homes. ... California led the nation in “clean economy jobs” with 338,400 positions, followed by New York with 248,500 and Texas with 229,700, according to a July 2011 study from the Brookings Institution. ... openings at ...
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Amount of stolen livestock, equipment rose in 2012 - Your Houston News
Amount of stolen livestock, equipment rose in 2012
Your Houston News
Special rangers for the association investigated 980 cases in Texas and Oklahoma last year. The group says thieves paid more than $3.8 million in restitution, fines and court costs. Convictions also resulted in incarceration, probation and suspended ...
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Ex-Pakistani strongman vows return ahead of vote - KiiiTV3.com South Texas ... - KIII TV3
Ex-Pakistani strongman vows return ahead of vote - KiiiTV3.com South Texas ...
KIII TV3
Musharraf has earned a reputation as a strongman who cried wolf after failing to follow through on previous promises to return home, but the likelihood of his return this time got a boost on Friday when a Pakistan court granted him pre-emptive bail ...
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Mortgages' Future Looks Too Much Like the Past - New York Times
Mortgages' Future Looks Too Much Like the Past
New York Times
But Representative Randy Neugebauer, a Texas Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said they made him “nail-biting mad.” He added: “Taxpayers have put all this money into these entities. The attorneys have gotten a lot richer and the ...
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Man killed in Texas called suspect in Colo slaying - The Advocate
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Man killed in Texas called suspect in Colo slaying
The Advocate
Texas authorities are checking whether the Cadillac is the same car spotted near the home of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, who was shot and killed when he answered the door Tuesday night. MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS .... Inspector John San Agustin ...
Texas Ranger: Evidence ties slain suspect to fatal shooting of Colorado prison ...Fort Worth Star Telegram
Parolee Evan Ebel may be tied to murders of DOC chief Tom Clements and ...The Denver Channel
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Man killed in Texas called suspect in Colo slaying - Ct Post
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Man killed in Texas called suspect in Colo slaying
Ct Post
Texas authorities are checking whether the Cadillac is the same car spotted near the home of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, who was shot and killed when he answered the door Tuesday night. MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS .... Inspector John San Agustin ...
Texas Ranger: Evidence ties slain suspect to fatal shooting of Colorado prison ...Fort Worth Star Telegram
Texas Rangers: Shell casings in Cadillac matched those in fatal shooting of ...McClatchy Washington Bureau
Parolee Evan Ebel may be tied to murders of DOC chief Tom Clements and ...The Denver Channel
San Angelo Standard Times
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Arthur Tarr - Effingham Daily News
Arthur Tarr
Effingham Daily News
Florence Simmons, 85, of Edgewood, passed away at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, March 21, 2013, in her home surrounded by her loving family. ... brother-in-laws, Noel (Georgia) Simmons of Mason, Charles (Lucille) Simmons of Texas, Ralph (Marietta) Simmons of ...
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'Scammers' cited by both sides in dispute over checks - San Antonio Express
'Scammers' cited by both sides in dispute over checks
San Antonio Express
The suit quotes U.S. postal inspectors as saying the checks had been stolen from mail in transit, but the agency couldn't confirm that when asked this week. In Schreiner's counter-claim, his lawyer, John Dwyer, blamed the bank for its losses, accusing ...
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Exodus from bonds? Not yet - Burleson Star
Exodus from bonds? Not yet
Burleson Star
Justin Beal, a 39-year-old municipal fire inspector from Clovis, Calif., believes the stock market will continue to remain at or near record levels in the coming months. But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically ...
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Home inspections vital part of buy-sell process - San Antonio Express
Home inspections vital part of buy-sell process
San Antonio Express
Angie's List is one such website, said Eberwine, a past president of the Texas Association of Real Estate Inspectors, past president of the San Antonio Real Estate Inspectors Association and chief inspector at Five Star Home Inspections Inc. Real ...
AP NewsAlert - San Antonio Express
AP NewsAlert
San Antonio Express
Texas authorities are checking whether the Cadillac is the same car spotted near the home of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, who was shot and killed when he answered the door Tuesday night. MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS .... Inspector John San Agustin ...