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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
The owner of a Houston bus company has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the 2008 Texas crash that killed 17 people on their way to a religious conclave, authorities announced Wednesday. Angel de la Torre of Houston and an associate are charged with making false statements on federal ...
Bomb threat made at courthouse near Fort Hood
Someone threatened to bomb a county courthouse near Fort Hood unless officials met the "demands" of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 shooting rampage on the Texas Army post, a sheriff said Wednesday. After the Wednesday morning call that mentioned Maj. Nidal Hasan, law officers evacuated the historic courthouse ...
Feds: North Texas prostitution ring dismantled
A man is accused of operating nearly a dozen brothels that masqueraded as massage parlors in three North Texas counties as part of a multistate prostitution ring generating more than $1 million since 2010. A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against 11 people, including eight who are in ...
Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic hurricane season's second tropical storm was drenching areas in its path with up to 10 inches of rain in some places, raising ...
EPA levies $2.5M penalty against US cement maker
The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air Act. Ash Grove Cement Co.'s penalty was announced Wednesday by the EPA ...
AP PHOTOS: Astrodome, JFK terminal endangered
Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places. On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from ...
Former priest's sex abuse trial set for Aug. 27
A West Texas judge has set ground rules in a sex abuse case against a former Roman Catholic priest who served 11 years in Texas -- despite a child molestation conviction in California. The judge Wednesday told attorneys for both sides how proceedings will go in John Anthony Salazar's case. ...
FedEx 4Q profit drops as priority services lag
FedEx Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 45 percent as international customers traded down to less-expensive delivery options and the company spent heavily on restructuring. FedEx said 3,600 employees will take voluntary buyouts and nearly half of them have already left. The company is also retiring older airplanes. Excluding charges related to ...
Appeals court vacates West Texas corruption ruling
An appeals court has overturned a guilty plea and six-year-prison sentence for a man accused of participating in a bribery scheme to win government contracts in El Paso County. The federal panel determined Tuesday that a judge interfered with plea negotiations involving El Paso businessman Adrian Pena. The contractor pleaded ...
AL teen charged with abducting baby found in Texas
An Alabama teenager was charged Wednesday with abducting a 10-month-old boy who was found safe in Texas almost two days after being taken from a home in Birmingham, police said. Breanna Nicole Walker, 19, of Birmingham was in federal custody with bond set at $100,000. Walker was arrested in Dallas, ...
GAO says airline merger would reduce competition
A government review finds that the merger of American Airlines and US Airways would reduce competition on more than 1,600 routes traveled by more than 53 million passengers. That's a greater loss of competition than occurred with the 2010 merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, an analyst for the ...
As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts ...
Recent editorials from Texas newspapers
Houston Chronicle. June 19, 2013. FEMA needs to reconsider: The people of West need and deserve all the FEMA help they can get. "You are not forgotten. We may not all live here in Texas but we're neighbors too. We're Americans too," President Obama told the people of West nearly ...
Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill
Justice Department prosecutors secured new indictments Wednesday against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new indictment of former BP executive David Rainey adds language alleging that he knew of the ...
Hundreds attend funeral service for Texas officer
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral service for an East Texas police officer who died after being hit by a vehicle during a disturbance at a park. The service for Texarkana police officer William Jason Sprague was held Wednesday in Texarkana and included a procession of emergency vehicles to First ...
Uncertain future for border prosecution program
On an October afternoon in 2009, a Dallas man arrived at a highway checkpoint about an hour north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Inside the gas tank of his pickup truck, agents found 99 pounds of marijuana. When the Border Patrol called the Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency said it was ...
Dewhurst tweet says bill attempt to close clinics
Texas Senate Republicans insist proposed new restrictions on abortion facilities are designed to protect women's health, but a tweet Wednesday from Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst suggested supporters of the measure hope to close clinics and all but ban the procedure in the state. Senate Republicans shoved aside Democrat objections ...
Texas House panel approves new youth punishment
A Texas House panel endorsed a bill Wednesday to create a new punishment for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder to allow the possibility of parole after 40 years. The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee passed the bill on a 7-2 vote and sent it to the full House, which is expected to ...
Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexico's southeastern coast, brings heavy rain to area
Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexico's southeastern coast, brings heavy rain to area.
Texas tops US in number of lost, stolen firearms
Federal authorities say Texas has far and away the largest number of firearms in the U.S. reported as lost or stolen. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a report this week showing there were 18,874 firearms lost or stolen in Texas in 2012. The figure represents 10 ...
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