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  • Texas takes on large oil firms Texas takes on large oil firms

    BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...

  • New needleless acupuncture therapy reduces diabetics indigestion symptoms

    A study from Texas Tech University, El Paso, and the University of Mississippi, Oxford, holds promising results for diabetic patients suffering from indigestion symptoms like nausea, vomiting, bloating and heartburn. The study tested a new method of therapy using a custom-made wireless device to stimulate acupuncture points with electrical waves on the surface of the skin rather than ...

  • Keystone XL Through Transcanada Uses Eminent Domain to Seize Texans Land

    TransCanada is an Alberta-based corporation that is building the controversial Keystone Pipeline that will carry bitumen--thicker, more corrosive and toxic, than crude oil--through 36-inch diameter pipes from the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mostly to be exported. The $2.3 billion southern segment, about 485 miles from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast is nearly ...

  • Sole Powerball winner in Florida

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The ...

  • Texas Republican Sen. Cruz eligible to be president should he decide to run

    nnCruz was born in Calgary, and his father is from Cuba. But the Republican senatoru2019s mother is from the first state of Delaware, which appears to settles the ...

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Brief Encounter [Blu-Ray]

Brief Encounter [Blu-Ray]

Tender without being melodramatic, intense without being tawdry, David Leans Brief Encounter tells the story of a doomed romance between a man and woman who are married to other people but hopelessly in love with each other. Yet, they are so torn by the guilt of deceiving t ... ...

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  • Tornado-hit Granbury subdivision residents allowed back to inspect their property

    smcfarland@star-telegram.com With mixed emotions, residents of Granbury’s Rancho Brazos Estates began returning to their homes Saturday, the first time since last week’s deadly tornadoes ravaged their ...

  • Memorial for dead Texas cheerleader set for Sunday

    COLORADO CITY, Texas (AP) — Hundreds are expected to attend a memorial for a Texas cheerleader whose remains were found more than two years after she disappeared.Family, friends and supporters of 13-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn will gather at Colorado Middle School on Sunday to bid a final farewell to the teenager who went missing in December 2010.Dunn's remains were found March 16 ...

  • ‘Doggie ice cream social’ raises money to help pet owners in need

    FORT WORTH — Four hundred people attended a doggie ice cream social with their pooches Saturday at the Trinity Pavilion and raised $5,000 to supply dog food to owners who can’t afford ...

  • Cost of Diabetes Corpus Christi family loses father too soon

    TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Danita Reyes and her twins Simon and Sophie Reyes, 10, place dirt on the casket of Mike Reyes during his burial at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Mike, 38, died in March after suffering cardiac arrest during dialysis. Diagnosed at age 23 with diabetes, Mike had suffered years of complications, including blindness, kidney failure and toe amputations. In a region where ...

  • 2013 Beach to Bay Relay Marathon Leg 1

    Runners come off the starting line Saturday at the kick off of the first leg of the Beach to Bay Relay Marathon on Padre Island in Corpus ...

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