• Norris exits game with back injury

  Email HOUSTON -- Astros ace Bud Norris left Tuesday's game against the Kansas City Royals due to tightness in his back. Norris blanked the Royals through six innings, allowing five hits, no runs and striking out two. He initially came back out to pitch the seventh inning, but manager Bo Porter and head athletic trainer Nate Lucero visited the mound after his warmup pitches and Norris was ...

• House sidesteps deadline delays major budget vote

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Friction over a Texas budget deal revealed signs of distrust and frustration Tuesday night when the House blew off a midnight deadline and again postponed a major vote on a new state water plan that is crucial to a spending ...

• Federal safety panel claims ATF blocking probe into Texas plant blast

  The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013. The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late on Wednesday, injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities ...

• LIVE STREAMING VIDEO Weather Service say Oklahoma tornado was EF-5

  A tornado moves past homes in Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Alonzo ...

• Time-lapse footage of yesterdays Oklahoma tornado

  The tornado destroyed an elementary school and flattened neighborhoods with winds up to 200 miles an hour. The National Weather Service made a preliminary ranking of the twister as an EF4, the second-most-powerful ...

• Dallas Stars to unveil new uniform logo in rebranding effort

  The Dallas Stars plan to unveil a new uniform, as well as a new logo, next month. The Dallas Stars plan to update the team's look with a new uniform design, as well as a new logo in a rebranding effort aimed at bringing renewed attention to the National Hockey League club. Ever since Stars Owner Tom Gaglardi purchased the team a year-and-a-half ago, the club has been working on a rebranding ...

• Local storm chaser hits the road

  AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin firefighter Randy Denzer has a serious hobby on the side. "I fell in love with it,"Denzer said. "After the first season,I was hooked." Every spring, Denzer chases severe weather thousands of miles in a Subaru he has outfitted with the latest weather technology. In this laptop I have probably 10 or 11 different specialized programs, everything from street ...

• North Texas spared major damage Tuesday as storms roll through

  A day earlier, a deadly EF5 tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. And closer to home last week, smaller tornadoes inflicted heavy damage on Granbury and ...

• Cruz Ocampo to represent Astros at MLB Draft

  Email HOUSTON -- A decorated member of the Astros' past and one of the men tasked with scouting the franchise's future will help usher in the next crop of Houston Astros. Jose Cruz, a two-time All-Star for Houston during the 1980s, and Astros director of international Oz Ocampo were announced Tuesday as the team's representatives at next month's Major League Baseball ...

• Tornado very close to Astros Triple-A affiliate

  HOUSTON -- The devastation from Monday's tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., hit close to home for the Astros' Triple-A affiliate from Oklahoma City. The RedHawks are playing a series in Fresno, Calif., but they have been trying to keep up with what was happening back home. As the storm was approaching, members of the Oklahoma City staff and the wives and family members of the ...

• Technicality topples key financial reporting bill

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A much-watched bill designed to give the public more information on schools, taxes, government spending and debt held by state entities has gone down on a House ...

• Stan Van Gundy doesnt plan to coach in 2013 MAY 21

  Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy has pulled himself out of consideration. Van Gundy, in an interview with 1080 The Team in Orlando, plainly stated that he would not be an NBA coach in 2013-2014. This announcement came on the heels of a report by Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojanarowski that placed Van Gundy as "unlikely" to coach next season, but on the heels of interviews with ...

• Tepesch to miss Wednesday start with blister

  Email ARLINGTON -- The Rangers have scratched pitcher Nick Tepesch from Wednesday's start with a blister on his right middle finger. The club is planning to recall right-hander Ross Wolf from Triple-A Round Rock to start against the Athletics. Wolf is 1-1 with a 1.85 ERA in six starts for Round Rock while holding opponents to a .223 batting average. In 34 innings, he has allowed 27 hits, ...

• Rangers call up veteran reliever Cotts

  ARLINGTON -- The Rangers called up left-hander Neal Cotts on Tuesday from Triple-A Round Rock, almost four years to the day when he last pitched in the Major Leagues. Cotts was 3-1 with a 0.78 ERA in 15 games for Round Rock, holding opponents to a .171 batting average. He had not allowed a hit to a left-handed hitter in 23 innings. "I'm really excited, definitely a lot of ups and ...

• Sundberg Pudge to represent Rangers at Draft

  ARLINGTON -- Former catchers Jim Sundberg and Ivan Rodriguez, who won 19 Gold Gloves between them in their careers, will represent the Rangers at the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. They will be in attendance on June 6 at MLB Network's Studio 42 in Secaucus, N.J. Sundberg has been in the Rangers' front office since 2004 and is currently senior executive vice president. Rodriguez, after ...

• Drug testing for unemployment passes Texas House

  The law would require state officials to screen applicants to see whether they might abuse drugs. Only if there is reasonable suspicion could the Texas Workforce Commission order a drug ...

• Error kills new district for struggling schools

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A technicality on the House floor has killed a bill that would have created special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling ...

• National Briefing | Southwest Texas House Votes to Ban Medicaid Expansion

  Rick Perry notified the Obama administration last summer that his state would not expand Medicaid. The House measure, which is an amendment to a Medicaid-related bill, says state officials "may not provide medical assistance to any person who would not have been eligible for that assistance" under the criteria already in effect. A version without the amendment has passed the Senate, ...

• Lesbian Couple Can’t Cohabitate Rules Texas Judge

  According to the AP report, Compton and Price have argued that the divorce clause is unconstitutional, on the basis that it limits their ';thought, belief, and experssion.';. The couple have stated that they will comply with the judge’s order, though they believe is could be ';harmful to the children'; and disruptive to their ...

• Congress grills IRS officials over targeting of conservative groups

  The IRS official overseeing the division that was inappropriately targeting conservative groups said she will refuse to answer lawmakers' questions during an appearance before a House committee Wednesday, a day after another top official at the agency acknowledged that he knew the targeting was happening but chose to keep quiet about ...

• Fort Worth agrees to settle United Riverside housing dispute

  FORT WORTH — The city and an affordable housing nonprofit, run as recently as last year by City Council woman Kelly Allen Gray, have agreed to settle a 4-year-old, $220,000 dispute, with the organization surrendering its remaining real estate, mineral rights and ...

• Student veteran battles shame of serving

  The Student Veterans Association of the University of North Texas hosted the first annual Veterans Ball on May 18 at the Holiday Inn in Denton. About 40 students, veterans, friends and family members gathered to honor the members of the Army, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and ...

• Texas protects Official Bison Herd

  A calf born to a cow in the official Texas State Bison Herd represents the future as scientists race to save the last remnants of the Great Southern Bison Herd from extinction. (Frank Martinez / ...

• Toyota San Antonio Chamber Present STEM Project

  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is supporting the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber's CORE4 STEM project to the tune of $100,000, it was announced this week. Patricia Salas Pineda, group vice president, National Philanthropy and Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc. made the presentation to Hispanic Chamber CEO Ramiro Cavazos and the chamber's chairman of the board, Alexander ...

• Leander SWAT situation ends peacefully

  LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) - Police are evacuating certain areas of a Leander neighborhood on Tuesday evening due to a suicidal man. The Leander Police Department said they received a call around 4:20 p.m. stating there was a suicidal man in a home near Sonoma Court and Presidio Drive. Police say the man is in the home alone, but they are being cautious about approaching the home. Several homes ...

• SWAT situation in Leander neighborhood

  LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) - Police are evacuating certain areas of a Leander neighborhood on Tuesday evening due to a suicidal man. The Leander Police Department said they received a call around 4:20 p.m. stating there was a suicidal man in a home near Sonoma Court and Presidio Drive. Police say the man is in the home alone, but they are being cautious about approaching the home. Several homes ...

• Texas lawmakers pushing for review of UIL

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- One of the chief critics of the University Interscholastic League is pushing lawmakers to conduct a thorough review of the governing body for public Texas high school ...

• Chemical-safety watchdog criticizes probe of Texas blast

  (Reuters) - Officials with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board say they may never know what caused last month's deadly fertilizer-plant explosion in Texas because of interference by federal and Texas agencies, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the head of the regulatory board to U.S. Senator Barbara ...

• Thunderstorm warning issued in East Texas

  The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning from 4:51 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. for Franklin County, Upshur County, Camp County, Morris County, Wood County, Cass County, Titus ...

• Editorial Four Corpus Christi port commissioners should reconsider conflict of interest

  Two and perhaps all three of the recusals weren't necessary. The commissioner with what appears to be the strongest potential conflict, Mike Scott, hasn't recused ...

• Arlington considering reducing width of Abram Street to create more pedestrian-friendly downtown

  Alcohol election: Arlington voters will weigh in this November on whether to allow the sale of wine permanently at the Rangers Ballpark. Because the Texas Rangers obtained ...

• Bill to allow Blue Mound to take control of troubled system moves forward

  liz@star-telegram.com A bill that would allow the city of Blue Mound to take over a troubled, privately-owned water system cleared a major hurdle Tuesday during the final days of the legislative ...

• Schools stronger since Jarrell tornado

  JARRELL, Texas (KXAN) - The people of Jarrell have some sense of what Moore, Okla., is going through. Next week marks the 16th anniversary of the tornado that stormed through this Williamson County town that left much of it leveled and took the lives of 27 people. Years earlier, the town was also hit by a twister. School was out for the day when the tornado hit on May 27, 1997. But the schools ...

• Third Annual Global Discovery Workshop in Tartu Estonia

  The third annual Global Discovery Workshop, organized by UNT, took place in Tartu, Estonia, for the first time this year and focused on energy efficient-buildings and ...

• Solar Impulse airplane set for trip to Dallas if weather allows

  Paul Johnson, of Tempe, Ariz., takes a photograph of the Solar Impulse airplane during a May 7 open house at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane is due to set out Wednesday on the record-breaking second leg of its solar-powered trip across America, from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, as long as the weather is acceptable."Although the flight has been ...

• Texas judge Lesbian couple cant cohabitate

  LOS ANGELES (AP) – The marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, which began with a storybook wedding, ended Friday in a grim courtroom with a judge approving a divorce settlement after a protracted legal battle between the former ...

• Do Mexicans Love Guns as Much as We Do

  Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be corrupt and guilty of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. I also recently saw a report about the violence in Mexico, and it stated that there is only one place in all of Mexico for a citizen to purchase a firearm. But just across the ...

• Kind of a drag Priscilla Queen of the Desert at DSM

  High camp: Mae West in a feather boa in She Done Him Wrong. Low camp: Jamie Farr in a dowdy dress on M*A*S*H. Camp adjacent: Every cock in a frock in the mock campy Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, whose national tour is now at the Dallas Summer Musicals at Fair Park. The 2011 Broadway adaptation of the 1994 movie sure loses a lot of what was special about that fun little film. The ...

• Hangover III Revenge of the Douches

  The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves the "Wolf Pack" without anyone ever making fun of them. In the slobs-versus-snobs comedies of the 1970s and '80s, the snooty rich kids were always the antagonists, bullying the nerds and cheating at cross-camp field days. They were ...

• What Maisie Knew Might Be a Great Film About Childhood

  There are times during the affecting tumult of What Maisie Knew when you may think, "At last, a first-rate American movie about what being a kid actually feels like!" And then there are times when, despite the scrupulousness of co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel's adherence to the perspective of this particular child being ground through this particular custody battle, ...

• LARK Brings Lunch to the Park

  Downtown Dallas was starved for natural beauty. Not that a five-acre deck park built atop a busy freeway is natural, really, but there are large swaths of grass that are sometimes green alongside the plastic turf dogs seem to love. The grass would be greener if a large part of the city's population didn't come trample it every weekend. Dallas needs three or four more Klyde Warren ...

• In Dallas ISD a Fight Over Principals Race and a Slice of the Pie

  This is a good time to reflect on the difficulty of finding truth in the battle over school reform in Dallas, because at this moment I don't seem to be able to get through the front door. I am standing on the parking lot at James Madison High School on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Dallas, trying to get into a community meeting organized by school board member Bernadette Nutall ...

• Home By Hovercraft Takes Dallas Dramatic Pop Tradition Somewhere New

  Home By Hovercraft aren't afraid of going for the big finish. Led by husband-and-wife combo Seth (lead vocals, tuba) and Shawn Magill (piano, vocals, xylophone), the band also comprises Abbey Magill (percussion), Max Hartman (drums) and Johnny Sequenzia (mandolin, banjolin, harmonica). They rightfully draw comparisons to The National and even Nick Cave for their impeccable ability to bring ...

• Todays MLB starting lineups May 21

  Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

• Astros to help raise funds for tornado victims

  A rescuer searches through debris in Moore, Okla. (Alonzo Adams/AP) The Astros Foundation plans to raise funds during the team's current homestand in an effort to aid those affected by Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla. The twister left damage in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where the franchise's Triple-A affiliate resides. The team will hold a "Jerseys Off Their ...

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