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US Moto X production plant of Motorola to be shut down by year end
WASHINGTON - In a surprise move, internet search engine giant Google Friday announced the sale of its US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91billion, ...
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Spurs overwhelm Thunder for 3-2 lead
San Antonio Spurs overwhelmed the Oklahoma City Thunder 117-89, taking a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Western Finals series. The Spurs Thursday started Matt Bonner in place of Tiago Splitter ...
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Scripps Spelling Bee Sees First Tie in 52 Years
Two U.S. teenagers have become the first contestants since 1962 to tie for the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship. Sriram Hathwar of New York and Ansun Sujoe of Texas were declared ...
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Tea Party Movement Maintains its Influence in Texas
HOUSTON ?? While some Tea Party-backed candidates have lost recent primaries in other states, the movement continues to dominate Republican Party politics in Texas. Voters who identify with the ...
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Ecuador arrive in US for Mexico friendly
The Ecuadorian football team, under Colombian coach Reinaldo Rueda, arrived in Dallas to play a friendly match against Mexico Saturday before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Rueda shortlisted 24 ...
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Chargois welcomes BISD special grand jury
Although the superintendent of schools for the Beaumont Independent School District has not been contacted by local or federal authorities about a special grand jury being formed to investigate the ...
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Abbott backs secrecy on drugs for executions
The Associated Press Texas prison officials don’t have to tell the public where they get execution drugs, Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday, reversing himself on an issue being ...
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Apparent crime scene for slain executive found in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Investigators believe they’ve uncovered the site where a Fort Worth executive was killed — and whose remains were found last weekend in Smith County and Shreveport, ...
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Obama urges concussion study
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Thursday for more robust research into youth concussions, saying that deep uncertainty remains over both the scope of the troubling issue and the ...
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The Cheesecake Factory headed to Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — The Cheesecake Factory will soon have its first Fort Worth location as it plans to convert the vacant Barnes & Noble Booksellers café space as well as the neighboring ...
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Fire smoldering at East Texas fertilizer lot
Fertilizer fires have been of concern in Texas since an April 2013 fertilizer plant explosion killed 15, injured about 200 others and devastated the Central Texas town of ...
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Fort Worth teen is co-champion of National Spelling Bee
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth gripped one side of the championship trophy at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday ...
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State awards contract for 3 Trinity River Vision bridges
billhanna@star-telegram.com A $65.5 million contract has been awarded by the Texas Department of Transportation for construction of three bridges for the Trinity River Vision project that is ...
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Emirates touts premium amenities coming to DFW with A380 service
aahles@star-telegram.com It will be a little more than four months before Emirates Airline begins flying its huge Airbus A380 to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, but the Middle East carrier is ...
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Slain Fort Worth executive was family man river enthusiast
On Mother’s Day, Brown brought Makenzie her favorite dish, barbecue hash, which he bought in South Carolina while on a trip with his son. Last Wednesday, the former spouses exchanged texts as ...
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Texas court rules against Lance Armstrong on bonus money
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court denied a request by lawyers for Lance Armstrong on Friday to block a sports insurance company from re-opening an arbitration agreement in which the ...
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Texas Top Prosecutor Execution Drug Source Can Be Kept Secret
DALLAS (AP) -- Texas can keep secret the name of its supplier for its execution drugs, the state attorney general determined after law enforcement argued that suppliers face serious danger.In the ...
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Texas judge orders affluenza records turned over
A judge has ordered attorneys for the North Texas teenager who killed four people in a deadly wreck to turn over the records of the psychologist who claimed the teen suffered from ...
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Man gets 8-15 years in 1975 slayings of brothers
A former Michigan man who lived for years under at least one alias after the brutal 1975 beating and stabbing deaths of two Detroit-area brothers was sentenced Friday to eight years to 15 years in ...
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Six inducted into Tyrus R. Timm Honor Registry at San Antonio event
By Blair Fannin Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Six new members were inducted into the Tyrus R. Timm Honor Registry in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University ...
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Austin urban rail plan nixed by pro-rail neighborhoods advocates
-- In an extraordinary reversal of political alignments, rail transit advocates, and inner-city neighborhoods considered most supportive of urban rail for this Central Texas city, appear to be ...
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Texas Supreme Court denies Lance Armstrongs appeal in effort to keep $12M bonus
Lance Armstrong has lost yet another round in his fight to keep Dallas-based SCA Promotions from collecting $12 million in bonus money. Friday ...
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Texas Megachurch Launches Amazon Fire Channel
4:33 pm A Texas megachurch has launched a new faith-based television station via the Amazon Fire Channel with the hopes of continuing to reach more people worldwide.Community Bible Church of San ...
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Gay Couple Told ‘We Don’t Serve Fags Here’ By Waitress At East Texas Restaurant
Big Earl’s Bait House and Country Store is an eatery located in the east Texas town of Pittsburg, about 130 miles from Dallas. At Big Earl’s, they like their men to act like men, and ...
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Texas can keep secret supplier of execution drugs
The state of Texas can keep secret the name of its supplier for execution drugs, the state's Attorney General determined after police argued that suppliers face serious ...