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  • Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek

    DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...

  • Health Officials Decry Texas Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the opening session of the Texas Legislature in Austin earlier this year. The state of Texas is turning down billions of federal dollars that would have paid for health care coverage for 1.5 million poor Texans. By refusing to participate in Medicaid expansion, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, the state will leave on the table an estimated $100 ...

  • Velocis buys Uptown Dallas office tower

    Dallas-based real estate investment firm Velocis has purchased 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Dallas-based real estate investment fund Velocis, along with its investors, has bought 3131 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas for an undisclosed sum. The 145,610-square-foot Class A office building is in a highly-desired submarket, where tenants can walk to a number of amenities, said Mike Lewis, ...

  • Gun measure triggers Republican fight in House

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A move to give lawmakers the right to carry handguns anywhere they wish sparked an angry debate in the Texas House of Representatives between ...

  • Ex-police officer gets prison for abusing suspect

    LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A former Laredo police officer has been sentenced to a year in prison after admitting to abusing a suspect in his patrol car last ...

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Going the Distance

Going the Distance

Anyone who has ever been through the travails of a long-distance relationship will find something familiar in Going the Distance, a fashionably vulgar romantic comedy in which Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, who were involved in real life a few years ago, star as a pai ... ...

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  • Texas man found guilty of murder in 1984 case

    A Collin County jury on Thursday found 50-year-old Alonzo Grayson Jr. guilty in the killing of 18-year-old Bobby Ray Taylor in January 1984. The jury then began deliberating the punishment for Grayson, who faces up to 99 years in prison. He's not eligible for parole because of prior convictions that include robbery and ...

  • Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis

    When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...

  • Texas Joins Flood of States Suing BP over 2010 Gulf Spill

    Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and others ';engaged in willful and wanton misconduct'; for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ...

  • R.L. Worths Heritage Oaks lands a new neighbor

    Zachry Construction Corp. is moving the company's headquarters to Heritage Oaks at Inwood. Only months after NuStar Energy LP moved out of its former headquarters, Zachry Construction Co. has decided to move in. The latter has closed on the purchase of Building I at the Heritage Oaks at Inwood office park on the far North Side. Spanning 84,000 square feet, the structure will serve as the new ...

  • Lawmakers require audit of Perry development fund

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill requiring an audit of Gov. Rick Perry's deal-closing Texas Enterprise Fund.Lawmakers have been demanding closer scrutiny of the decade-old program that has given more than $485 million to private companies looking to expand or relocate in the state. Critics have questioned the fund, and Perry's similar ...

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